Registered Nurse - Recovery | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust; Colchester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Colchester is seeking Registered Nurses/Operating Department Practitioners to become vital members of the Theatre Recovery team. This role involves delivering high quality post-operative patient care within a supportive and progressive environment. You'll have the opportunity to work in a state-of-the-art specialist centre for elective orthopaedics. We offer various benefits including annual leave, a pension scheme, and NHS discounts. Interested candidates should call for an informal chat and apply before 15 Dec 2025.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

27 days annual leave

NHS discounts

Staff Health and Wellbeing programme

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse or Operating Department Practitioner qualification.
• Experience in post-operative patient care.
• Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinically effective, high quality post-operative patient care.
• Deliver patient care throughout the post-operative pathway.
• Promote a safe working environment conducive to learning.
• Contribute to the development of evidence-based practice.
• Support integration of clinical governance in patient care delivery.

Job description

Overview

To enable us to maintain our commitment to high quality patient focused care, we are seeking to recruit Registered Nurse/Operating Department Practitioners to join our Theatre Recovery team. We are committed to providing high quality patient care in a clean & safe environment and an organisation that is forward thinking, innovative & supportive. In our progressive, supporting and forward-thinking team you will be supported in your continual professional development.

Elective orthopaedic surgical services will transfer to our brand-new state-of-the-art specialist centre for elective orthopaedics at Colchester Hospital opening this year. This role will provide you with opportunities to work in the EOC.

Responsibilities

• You will provide clinically effective, high quality, individualized post-operative patient care working within the multi-disciplinary team.
• You will deliver patient care throughout the post-operative pathway.
• You will promote a safe and attractive working environment that is conducive to learning.
• You will contribute to the continuing development of post-operative and professional practice ensuring practice is evidence based.
• You will support the integration of clinical governance in all aspects of patient care delivery.

Benefits

• We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
• 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 offers a variety of services.
• Our philosophy is to improve patient and staff time matters and remove delays.
• We are investing in a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic for a digital transformation.

Contact

Interested candidates are encouraged to call 01206 742617 for an informal chat about the role. Please be advised we may close this advert earlier if sufficient amount of applications are received.

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

This advert closes on Monday 15 Dec 2025