- Create and maintain a safe and welcoming environment for patients, visitors and staff
- Maintains effective communications between patients, their relatives and the multi-professional team both within the department and beyond, to avoid problems caused by poor communication
- Supports the Senior Sister(s)/Charge Nurse(s) in ensuring the maintenance of high standards of nursing care.
- •Registered Nurse
- •Evidence of ongoing professional development
- •Recognised trauma course (ED only)
- •Relevant teaching and mentoring qualification
- Awareness and understanding of current Government/Trust initiatives/NMC Code of Conduct
- Good knowledge of infection control procedures/initiatives
- Competence in ED specific skills, triage, plastering
- •Proven NHS experience
- •Experience of delivering evidence based practice
- •Team / people management
- •Experience in emergency care
- •Experience of ward co-ordination
- •Experience of looking after acutely and critically unwell patients
Staff Nurse - Colchester, United Kingdom - East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Description
Job overview
We are looking for Registered Nurses to join our enthusiastic and motivated Emergency Department based at Colchester Hospital.
We have full time and part time opportunities available for both permanent, fixed term and secondment opportunities.
You will have proven registered nurse experience in an acute environment, ideally within emergency medicine and have the desire to work with patients who present to the Emergency Department.
We will support you to develop skills in emergency nursing. You can expect to work in a progressive and motivated team who will actively encourage your development in emergency nursing.
Main duties of the job
Be responsible for the delivery and maintenance of high standard individualised evidence based patient care and supervising others in delivery of care.
Demonstrating a professional manner and good communication skills in all aspects of your work.
Working for our organisation
One of the largest Trust's in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients' own homes. You will be joining a team of over 11,000 amazing colleagues providing care to 800,000 residents.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a range of services including mental health support. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.
To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
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