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

Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in Ipswich is seeking an enthusiastic registered nurse to join their Emergency Medicine Division. The successful candidate will have significant experience in acute medicine and will be responsible for coordinating high-quality individualised patient care. This role includes responsibilities such as assessing patient needs, liaising with healthcare professionals, and maintaining accurate records. The position offers a range of benefits including training opportunities, a generous pension scheme, and support for career development.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

27 days annual leave

Access to NHS discounts

Health and Wellbeing programme

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a registered nurse in an acute medicine environment.
• Ability to perform specialist interventions as per trust guidelines.
• Commitment to maintaining accurate patient records.

Responsibilities

• Assess and evaluate individualised patient care programs.
• Liaise with multi-professional teams on care delivery.
• Participate actively in admission and assessment procedures.

Skills

Registered nurse

Acute medicine experience

Effective communication

Leadership skills

Ability to work under pressure

Education

Nursing qualification (Band 6)

Job description

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Emergency Medicine Division at Ipswich Hospital. We are looking for an inspiring individual to join our team. You will need to have proven experience at a band 6 in the acute medicine environment. We have a role available in our Brantham Ward.

We are looking for a enthusiastic, flexible, well‑motivated registered nurses, who thrive on working at a fast pace, is quick thinking and able to work well under pressure.

You’ll be working with friendly, motivated, supportive teams to provide excellent patient care.

We are looking for an individual who is keen to develop and deliver excellent clinical care. You must be motivated and be responsible, with the guidance of the Ward Sister for providing leadership and teaching within the Unit environment.

You should through knowledge, good example and education, enable unit staff to deliver high quality, individualised care. In addition you will need to provide support and supervision of nursing staff, and effectively coordinate and deploy resources within the Unit.

If you have good juggling skills to be able to balance operational delivery, patient safety, quality and patient experience this could be the challenge you are looking for!

Proposed interview date 18th December 2025

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of individualised programmes of patient care with acute medical problems.
• Perform specialist interventions in line with the agreed Trust policies, procedures and guidelines, as part of holistic patient care.
• Communicate effectively with patients, carers and visitors.
• Be responsible for maintaining accurate patient records.
• Liaise with the multi‑professional team regarding the planning and delivery of care, and cohesive discharge planning.
• Inform the Ward Sister/Head Matron of any potential complaints, or if any patient/carer is dissatisfied with any aspect of their care, so that immediate and appropriate action can be taken.
• To actively participate in admission/assessment procedures within the Ward and be involved with ongoing care.

Benefits

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 the largest NHS organisation in East Anglia, 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.

Additional Information

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

Find out about living and working here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPu7HphU8A

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

This advert closes on Friday 12 Dec 2025