Deputy Sister/ Charge Nurse | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust; Colchester; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A major healthcare provider in Colchester is seeking a Deputy Sister or Charge Nurse to join a dynamic team. This role involves providing high-quality, individualised nursing care and developing clinical skills while supervising staff. The organization emphasizes support for its staff, offering flexible working and a range of benefits including training opportunities and annual leave. If you're passionate about patient care and eager to grow your skillset, we want to hear from you.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

27 days of annual leave

Access to NHS discounts

Health and Wellbeing programme

Qualifications

• Commitment to high-quality individualised nursing care.
• Ability to take charge of the ward in the absence of the Ward Manager.
• Experience in supervision and education of staff and students.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality nursing care to patients.
• Take charge of the ward in the absence of the Ward Manager.
• Contribute to the development of nursing practice.

Job description

Are you looking for a new challenge? Exciting opportunities have arisen within the Older Peoples Wards (Birch, Peldon, D'Arcy and Tiptree) for a Deputy Sister or Charge Nurse to join us on one of our dynamic friendly teams.

Our goal is to provide our patients with the highest standards of care, if you think you have the commitment and skills to join our team and be able to deliver high quality care, we are waiting for your application.

As a team we are committed to recruiting staff that uphold our values and can deliver excellent care putting patients at the heart of everything we do, with an emphasis on working in partnership with patients and their families to provide the best possible experience and outcomes.

Responsibilities

• To provide high quality, individualised nursing care to patients and their parents/carers through working as an effective member of the inter-disciplinary team.
• To develop clinical and managerial skills by taking charge of the ward in the absence of the Ward Manager.
• To contribute to the supervision, assessment and education/development of ward staff and students.
• To contribute to the continuing development of nursing practice through research and audit.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

This advert closes on Thursday 4 Dec 2025