Registered Nurse - Mersea Ward

NHS; Colchester; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Colchester is seeking a Registered Nurse for their busy surgical ward. You'll join a motivated team dedicated to high-quality patient care, featuring opportunities for ongoing professional development. Relevant experience in acute healthcare settings is required. This role offers a pro-rated salary range of £31,049 to £37,796 annually and access to generous benefits, including training opportunities and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

27 days annual leave on commencement

Access to NHS discounts

Qualifications

• Worked within the healthcare setting.
• Recent RN experience in hospital setting.
• Willingness to undertake further education.

Responsibilities

• Provide effective, individualized nursing care to patients.
• Work as an effective member of the nursing and healthcare team.
• Ensure high standards of patient care in line with Trust policies.

Skills

Ability to work effectively in a team and lead as required

Excellent interpersonal skills

Ability to manage own workload

Motivated and enthusiastic

Education

Registered Nurse Level 1 or 2

Evidence of continuing professional development

Job description

Registered Nurse - Mersea Ward

Go back East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 28 September 2025

This is a busy bedded elective/emergency surgical ward specializing in colorectal, upper GI, vascular and urology. In addition to receiving post-operative and emergency surgical patients, we also admit patients that are stepping down to the ward from Critical Care.

You will be a key part of our ward teams and support the senior team in providing high quality care.

This is an excellent opportunity to join our friendly and busy team who are motivated in promoting the delivery of a patient-centred, clinically effective and dynamic service to our patients undergoing a surgical procedure. We are dedicated to developing our staff and there are various opportunities to continue to develop skills and a career pathway with the NHS.

This is a great opportunity to continue or start your career within surgery where you will be supported in your career and professional development.

If you have acute hospital experience and are committed to providing high quality care, we want to hear from you!

Internal applicants will be offered a Secondment

Main duties of the job

To meet the needs of the Trust with regard to Induction, mandatory and statutory training

To work within the framework for Clinical Governance to provide effective, high quality individualised nursing care to patients and relatives/carers and to contribute to the continuing development of nursing practice.

To ensure high standards of patient care at all times, in line with Trust policies and guidelines

To work as an effective member of the nursing and wider multi-professional healthcare team

To work within the Trust's Competency Framework for Registered Nurses, the Ward/ Department Philosophy and the NMC Code of Conduct/ Professional Standards for the Protection of 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

Experience

• Worked within the healthcare setting
• Recent RN experience in hospital setting
• Experience in acute setting
• Participation in research/audit.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse Level 1 or 2
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Coaching qualification.
• Willingness to undertake further education

Knowledge

• Knowledge and understanding of evidence-based practice.
• Understanding and ability to apply clinical governance principles to practice.
• Knowledge of developments in speciality and current issues driving nursing in general
• Knowledge of developments in speciality and current issues driving nursing in general.
• Nursing Care of Acutely unwell patients
• Vascular knowledge

Skills

• Ability to work effectively in a team and lead as required
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to delegate
• Ability to manage own workload
• Ability to communicate at appropriate level both written and verbal.
• Motivated and enthusiastic
• Ability to influence wider MDT
• Ability to prioritise workload of clinical area

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 year pro rata, per annum