Staff Nurse

East Coast Community Healthcare CIC; Beccles; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A community healthcare provider in Beccles is seeking a compassionate Registered Nurse to join their team at Carlton Court Hospital. This role involves assessing and implementing patient care in a supportive environment. Candidates should possess NMC registration and relevant qualifications. The position requires strong communication skills and the ability to work flexibly across shifts. There are opportunities for professional growth and development within a collaborative, nurse-led team, emphasizing high-quality, person-centred care.

Benefits

NHS terms and conditions

Employee benefits

Clear development pathways

Qualifications

• Recent experience in a healthcare setting.
• Ability to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate nursing needs.
• Understanding of legal and ethical issues pertaining to nursing.

Responsibilities

• Assess, plan, provide and evaluate nursing care.
• Work as an effective member of the multi-disciplinary team.
• Ensure safe patient care is central to all activities.

Skills

NMC registration

Strong communication

Organisational skills

Team-working skills

Calmness under pressure

Education

Nursing Diploma or Degree

Job description

Are you a compassionate and motivated Registered Nurse looking to make a real difference in patient care?

Join our supportive, nurse-led team at Carlton Court Hospital, Lowestoft. Our three 11-bed inpatient units provide a calm and caring environment for adults with a range of complex physical and mental health needs. Working closely with a multidisciplinary team, you will deliver high-quality, person-centred care that supports dignity, safety, and comfort.

We are looking for Band 5 Staff Nurses who bring clinical confidence, warmth, and professionalism to their role. You will be responsible for assessing, planning and implementing care, administering medication, supervising support staff and students, and helping to maintain a safe and therapeutic environment. You will also play a key part in upholding our core values: Compassion, Action, Respect and Everyone.

To thrive in this role, you will need:

• NMC registration and a relevant nursing qualification
• Recent experience in a healthcare setting
• Strong communication, organisational and team-working skills
• Confidence, calmness and compassion under pressure
• Willingness to work flexibly across a 24/7 rota, including nights, weekends and bank holidays

Newly qualified? Looking for your first opportunity? Join ECCH and be supported by a friendly, inclusive team. We offer clear development pathways, ongoing support, and a collaborative environment where care and compassion come first. Start building your nursing career with us.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be part of a team to assess, plan, provide and evaluate nursing care, ensuring it is of the highest quality and patient centered. To work as an effective member of the multi-disciplinary team, supporting colleagues in their role. The post holder will be responsible for delivering high-quality cost-effective evidence based care for patients with highly complex needs.

The service will aim to promote

• Faster recovery from illness
• Prevention of unnecessary acute hospital admissions
• Prevention of premature admission to long term residential care
• Support for a timely discharge from hospital

Carlton Court Hospital is a healthcare facility located in Carlton Colville, Lowestoft, Suffolk (NR33 8AG). The wards provide a range of services, including rehabilitation and support for individuals with complex health needs.

You will be part of a team consisting of band 7 ward manager, band 6 sister/charges nurse, band 5 registered nurse and band 3 clinical support workers who are all trained in a range of skills. Your role will be very physical, providing hands on , patient facing care. You will work alongside both nursing and therapy teams, delivering care so that they can support and respond to the patients needs. This includes all aspects of activities of daily living, with an ethos of rehabilitation to support patients to gain as much independence as possible.

About us

ECCH is a well established health care provider and has been successfully delivering NHS care within the community since 2011. We provide a range of NHS, community health and social care services predominantly across the easterly region of the Norfolk/Suffolk borders.

We are aligned to NHS terms and conditions, and offer many employee benefits, to find out more about us visit our website - www.ecch.org. We are a social enterprise and staff owned organisation which means staff can opt to be shareholders and have a real say in how ECCH is run and evolves to deliver healthcare for the future.

At the heart of our ambition, we work in partnership with and for the community to become the provider and employer of choice for community healthcare.

We encourage you to apply as early as possible as this job may close earlier than the advertised closing date once enough applications have been received.

AI

We recognise that AI tools are increasingly used in professional settings. While we encourage strong applications, we value authenticity and an accurate reflection of skills and experience.

Applicants must declare if AI has been used to complete their application, including responses that are directly copied or significantly shaped by AI tools.

By submitting this application, you confirm that all information provided is a true and accurate representation of your own skills, knowledge, and experience.

Job responsibilities

Contribute to, support and promote ECCHs, strategicdirection, values and culture in relation to proactive and reactive services.

Discuss all treatment options with sensitivity, knowledgeand expertise, and to act as a patient advocate when appropriate, respectingpatient confidentiality with privacy and respect for diverse culturalbackgrounds and requirements.

Actively manage the patients admission, involving clinicalexperts, when relevant, to advise in the treatment plan. Proactive dischargemanagement, ensuring patients are consulted and proper management of situationswhere patients need assistance in decision making.

Act as a resource for other health and social careprofessionals on matters relating to nursing.

Proactive participation in multidisciplinary team meetings.

Take charge of the service and/or site in the absence of aSister/Charge Nurse, accepting responsibility during this time to lead the teamand maintain a safe environment.

To act as an effective role model to other staff, beingclear about expectations and ensuring that safe patient care is central to allactivities.

To provide complex information to the patients, cliniciansand other agencies to assist in decision-making, using persuasive,motivational, negotiating, training, empathic and re-assurance skills.

Participate in clinical supervision within the team asrequired.

Participate and maintain a learning environment and maximiseopportunities for education and development in the clinical area.

Contribute to the clinical governance agenda throughparticipation in clinical risk assessment and clinical audit.

Contribute to an environment conducive to effective working,respecting and supporting staff to deliver high quality clinical services.

Contribute to change and innovation within the ward.

Work as part of the multidisciplinary team to deliverevidence-based cost-effective care.

Work in collaboration with colleagues to contribute to thedevelopment of care pathways for patients requiring a range of healthcareneeds.

Work with patients towards self-care and independenceutilising health coaching techniques.

Contribute to the review of currentpolicies/protocols/guidelines and the development of clinical pathways andoutcomes for inpatients.

Contribute to supporting evidence to meet the Care QualityCommission (CQC) fundamental standards.

Plan and organise a range of complex clinical activities toensure best practice is delivered to patients in your delegated area ofresponsibility.

Take responsibility for own personal and professionaldevelopment; maintain competence, knowledge and skills commensurate with role.

Be wholly accountable for practice taking every reasonableopportunity to sustain and improve knowledge and professional competence and,ensure all aspects of professional behaviour as required within professionalcode are followed at all times.

Maintain legible, accurate and contemporaneous patientrecords in accordance with ECCH Policy and Nursing and Midwifery Councilstandards for record keeping.

Take responsibility to ensure compliance with Health andSafety Policy, Fire and Environmental Waste Regulations.

Be responsible for understanding, following and implementingECCH policies and procedures.

Ensure own compliance with ECCH risk management systems,proactively identifying risk, reporting and managing risk within area ofresponsibility.

Take responsibility for the cost-effective management andsafe use of clinical equipment.

Contribute to the effective use of resources.

Contribute to the evaluation of training programmes tosupport patients and carers gain the necessary knowledge and skills to maintainindependence.

All roles within East Coast Community Healthcare CIC (ECCH)require staff to demonstrate our Values and Signature Behaviours in the careand service they provide to patients, service users, stakeholders andcolleagues. All members of staff should consider these as an essential part oftheir job role.

Our Values outline the core behaviours that we can allachieve and are summarised as an acronym within the word CARE. These stand for:Compassion, Action, Respect and Everyone.

Underpinning our Values are our Signature Behaviours whichhighlight by taking the right actions we continue to build a strong culture.Our four Signature Behaviours are: Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, We Lead|Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect OurResources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together.

Person Specification

Experience

• Evidence of experience working within a community nursing or hospital setting
• Evidence of experience working within a secondary care environment
• Evidence of experience working to improve clinical practice
• Evidence of experience working with a case management approach to care

Skills and Knowledge

• Enthusiastic and committed to individualised goal directed care
• Willing to challenge poor practice
• Understanding of all aspect of clinical governance appropriate to level of experience including a base knowledge of the CQC fundamental standards
• To be able to assess, plan, implement and evaluate the nursing needs of patients
• Professional knowledge of nursing care, current trends
• Ability to prioritise and delegate workload
• Act on unplanned situations utilising appropriate clinical judgement
• Must have an understanding of the legal and ethical issues pertaining to nursing
• Able to undertake phlebotomy, cannulation and the administration of intravenous therapy/blood transfusions
• Ability to complete SystmOne training in order to comply with the record keeping requirements of the role

Qualifications

• Certificate, Diploma or Degree in Nursing to enable NMC registration
• Evidence of continued professional development and a professional portfolio
• Mentorship/teaching and Assessing Course or equivalent
• Working towards, or keen to undertake further study
• Health related degree

Personal Attributes

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent organisational skills and good time management
• Ability to communicate appropriately to a wide variety of people
• Ability to work on own initiative and autonomously
• Use of a computer to access emails, use of internet
• Willing to work flexible hours / location to accommodate the needs of the service this includes internal rotation (days, nights, weekends and Bank Holidays)
• Ability to embrace our Culture, Values and Signature Behaviours:
• (Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, We Lead| Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together).
• Willingness and ability to work across different sites and travel to alternative sites and across the community as required

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.