Nurse Consultant

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust; Colchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days annual leave

NHS pension scheme

Staff Health and Wellbeing programme

Job summary

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a substantive Nurse Consultant for Great Tey Ward at Colchester Hospital. The post requires experience as a Nurse Consultant or in Advanced Clinical Practice and a commitment to clinical leadership.

You will contribute to a Nurse Led Model of Care, governance for advanced practitioners, and collaboration with medical teams to deliver safe, patient-centred care on orthopaedic and gynaecology wards.

Qualifications

• Act as an expert clinical practitioner demonstrating advanced clinical skills and knowledge with evidence-based practice.
• Work closely with Consultant bodies for professional guidance.
• Demonstrate leadership in developing a Nurse Led Model of Care with governance for advanced practitioners.
• Develop and lead nursing and advanced care practice standards with ward-wide applicability.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and day-to-day oversight of patients across wards.
• Collaborate with medical teams to ensure consultant oversight and safe patient care.
• Lead on governance, clinical competency, and patient care pathways for the ward.
• Support time matters philosophy and participate in digital transformation initiatives.

Skills

Advanced clinical practice

Clinical leadership

Job description

Great Tey Ward at Colchester Hospital is looking to appoint a substantive Nurse Consultant. Applications are being sought from candidates with experience either as a Nurse Consultant or within an Advanced Clinical Practice post.

Great Tey is a Nurse Led medically optimised ward that sits within the inpatient flow CDG. The post holder will also be required to provide clinical leadership and day to day oversight of medically outlined patients who are accommodated within the Orthopaedic and Gynaecology wards (Oldham, Fordham and Stanway). This will be undertaken in close collaboration with the relevant medical consultant teams, ensuring appropriate consultant oversight and support to deliver safe, effective and patient-centred care (outliers usually account for between 3-6 patients).

• Act as an expert clinical practitioner demonstrating advanced clinical skills and knowledge including evidence of critical thinking and implementation of research-based practice within the management of own caseload.
• To work in close relationship with different Consultant bodies for professional guidance
• To demonstrate clinical leadership, skills and knowledge in developing a comprehensive Nurse Led Model of Care, incorporating clinical competency trust wide and patient care pathways.
• Be responsible for developing and leading on nursing and advanced care practice standards, underpinning a robust governance structure for a future workforce of advanced practitioners within the ward.

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sarah Wiekamp Job title: Deputy Associate Director of Nursing Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07394402291