Newly Qualified Registered Nurse

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust; Ipswich, Colchester; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in England seeks a Newly Qualified Registered Nurse to commence their career in Spring 2026. This role involves patient care assessments, implementing care plans, and maintaining high standards of nursing practice. Ideal candidates will be newly qualified or due to qualify within 8 months with proven communication skills and the ability to work as a team. Offering a competitive salary, career development, and NHS benefits, the provider supports staff with high-quality training and flexible working options.

Benefits

High quality Preceptorship Programme

Continuing development opportunities

Generous pension scheme

Access to NHS discounts

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for unsupervised assessment of patient care needs and development, implementation and evaluation of plans of care.
• Undertake all nursing procedures in accordance with Trust policies.
• Ensure accurate and comprehensive nursing records are maintained using appropriate documentation.
• Monitor and record planned vs actual staffing levels and escalate when necessary.

Skills

Experience as student adult nursing or newly qualified nurse adult

Proven communication skills and ability to negotiate

Ability to work as a team and form professional relationships with colleagues

Ability to demonstrate initiative and solve problems

Skilled in use of computer/key board

Education

Newly qualified (within 8 months) or due to qualify within 8 months

Job description

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Newly Qualified Registered Nurse

The closing date is 14 January 2026

Are you a student nurse or newly qualified registered adult nurse looking to commence your career in Early Spring 2026?

This role is NOT suitable for internationally trained nurses who are required to complete OSCE or who have recently completed .

We offer both full and part time roles in our acute and community sites.

ESNEFT's offer to you:

• An opportunity to start work as a band 4 Pre-registration Nurse, whilst awaiting NMC Registration confirmation
• High quality 12 months Preceptorship Programme followed by ongoing continuing development opportunities
• A named Preceptor from day 1
• Internal Transfer Scheme allowing you to transfer between different areas across ESNEFT, including a large range of specialties across all site

Please note a separate advert will be going out in January for NQN's who will be qualifying Autumn 2026.

Main duties of the job

Liaise appropriately with all key members of the multi-disciplinary team and service users related to the speciality.

To be responsible for all aspects of patient care including the assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of direct patient care with indirect supervision from senior staff.

To support the Charge Nurse/Senior Sister to monitor the safety and quality of care for patients.

About us

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 thatTime 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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Job responsibilities

To be responsible for unsupervised assessment of patient care needs and development, implementation and evaluation of plans of care, ensuring high standards of evidence based care.

To undertake all nursing procedures in accordance with Trust policies and ensure that these procedures and policies are understood and adhered to by all staff, within own management responsibility.

To ensure accurate and comprehensive nursing records are maintained using appropriate written and electronic documentation.

To monitor and record planned vs actual staffing levels and elevate when necessary.

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

Person Specification

Experience

• experience as student adult nursing or newly qualified nurse adult
• Proven communication skills and ability to negotiate
• Ability to work as a team and form professional relationships with colleagues

Qualification

• Newly qualified (within 8 months) or due to qualify within 8 months

Personal skills

• Ability to demonstrate initiative and solve problems
• Skilled in use of computer/key board

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

£31,049 to £37,796 a yearpro rata, per annum + unsocial hours (as applicable)