Staff Nurse - ENT Outpatients

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust; Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in England seeks a Staff Nurse to join the ENT Outpatients department. The role involves providing high-quality patient care and assessing individual care needs, with opportunities for professional development. Candidates must be NMC registered and have at least one year of experience. The environment promotes teamwork and requires staff to assist with a variety of procedures while upholding patient dignity. The role offers competitive compensation and encourages innovation in care delivery.

Responsibilities

• Provide high standard of care to patients, maintaining privacy and dignity.
• Assess care needs, develop, implement and evaluate care programmes.
• Support the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse.
• Maintain high standards of cleanliness in clinical area.
• Promote and maintain self-development.

Skills

Relevant skills and experience

NHS experience

Education

NMC Registered

1 year experience

Job description

Go back Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Staff Nurse - ENT Outpatients

The closing date is 06 January 2026

This is an exciting opportunity for a registered nurse to apply to work in the main outpatients department.

Main Outpatients is a thriving and busy clinical area providing OPD facilities to many patients who require our services. We specialise in surgical, vascular, oncology and all medical specialities within the Trust.

As a department we carry out over 60 different procedures across the clinics therefore it is a very varied interesting and rewarding place to work.

It is essential that you are keen, motivated, forward thinking and possess good leadership skills.

You must be an excellent communicator, committed to working in a busy and varied environment.

There is a wealth of learning opportunities to be found in this department with new and innovative ways of diagnosing and treating patient's conditions in an OPD setting. Nurse led clinics are also provided by the experienced OPD nursing staff.

We provide a service to some outlying community clinics in the Mid Essex area so you may be expected to travel.

Staff are very friendly, supportive and innovative providing a very good standard of care to all our patients.

Main duties of the job

To provide a high standard of care to patients, whilst maintaining at all times their privacy and dignity.

To assess care needs, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care.

To contribute to supporting the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse.

To support the maintenance of high standards of cleanliness in their own clinical area.

To actively promote and maintain self-development.

About us

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.

Job responsibilities

For a full list of role responsibilities, and the qualities that we are looking for, please see the attached job description and person specification.

We look forward to your application!

Person Specification

Knowledge

• NMC Registered
• 1 year experience

Skills

• Relevant skills and experience
• NHS experience

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.

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

£31,049 a yearPer Annum (Pro Rata for Part Time)