Registered Nurse - Durban Ward

East Suffolk And North Essex Nhs Foundation Trust; Tendring; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting registered nurses for the Durban ward at Clacton and District Community Hospital. The ward will support community step up/down care, with emphasis on patient-centered, flexible, and high-quality nursing care.

You will work within a multidisciplinary team and contribute to audits and education within the unit. The role requires full registration as a nurse, willingness to teach, and the ability to adapt to evolving ward developments,

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with full registration.
• Willingness to teach and assess junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership support within the ward.
• Teach within the unit and support audit processes.
• Deliver high quality, individualized patient care.

Skills

Nursing leadership

Teaching & Assessing

Word

PowerPoint

Excel

Communication skills

Time management

Education

Registered Nurse - full registration

Job description

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Registered Nurses to join the newly formed Durban ward located at Clacton and District Community Hospital. Durban ward is a 26 bedded unit which will provide Community step up and step down to patients who have a North East Essex GP.

Community Hospital wards within North East Essex provide care for patients who do not require acute nursing intervention and whose needs cannot be met at home. They also provide palliative or end of life care, recovery from acute illness, rehabilitation and IVABs.

Durban ward is planned to open during November 2026 to help support flow during seasonal pressures. Due to the trusts ambition to support a "home first" approach, Durban ward has potential to transition after the winter period to a Same Day Assessment Unit, providing rapid assessment, diagnostics, and treatment for appropriate patients, reducing avoidable admissions to the Colchester acute site.

You will be a key member of the ward nursing team to ensure high quality care is delivered and will be part of a multi-professional team. You must be patient focused, flexible, adaptable and capable of thinking laterally.

This role is not suitable if you are required to complete OSCE.

Main duties of the job

With the guidance of the ward manager and senior nurses, you will be responsible for providing leadership support, teaching within the unit and supporting audit processes. You will use your knowledge and education to enable your colleagues to deliver high quality, individualised care to your 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 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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Job responsibilities

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

Person Specification

Education and experience - Essential

• Registered Nurse - full registration
• Teaching & Assessing or willingness to undertake

Skills/abilities - Essential

• Ability to use Word, Power-point, email, Excel
• Demonstrates the ability to work independently using professional knowledge
• Developed communication skills, both oral and written
• Time management skills

Experience - Essential

• Experience within a Nursing/Ward environment
• Keeping accurate records and documentation
• Communicating sensitive information

Experience - Desirable

• Teaching and assessing junior member of staff including students
• People Management
• Clinical Knowledge and experience with Information Governance, IV therapy, cannulation, catheterisation

Knowledge/Understanding - Essential

• Understanding of applicable policies and procedures: - Health & Safety - Risk Management - Clinical Supervision - AED & CPR
• Maintain awareness in professional developments in nursing older people

Personal Attributes/other - Essential

• Promote evidence based practice
• Honesty and integrity
• A role model for change, committed to quality and best practice
• Flexibility with working hours
• Caring and empathetic

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).