Job overview

Are you a dedicated, compassionate and skilled Staff Nurse seeking a fulfilling career within an innovative trust?

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust are looking for passionate Staff Nurse to join our dynamic team based at our Broomfield Hospital site.

• To provide a high standard of individualised care to patients, whilst maintaining at all times their privacy and dignity.
• Assess care needs, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care.
• Contribute to supporting the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse.
• Support the maintenance of high standards of cleanliness in their own clinical area.

Main duties of the job

• To practice in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and Trust policies procedures and guidelines
• Consistently organise and deliver individualised patient care, ensuring patients physical, social and psychological needs are met
• To communicate effectively and work in partnership with patients, their relatives/carers, nursing colleagues and members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure care is delivered in an accurate and efficient manner
• Contribute to supporting the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse to maintain/improve and develop high standards of patient care, and thereby ensuring that the patients are treated 
  with privacy, dignity and respect
• Support the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse in actively implementing initiatives outlined within the Trust’s local Nursing and Midwifery and Patient Involvement & Experience Strategies
• Assist the Senior Sister in ensuring that nursing practice reflects current clinical developments, evidence based guidance and is based on sound nursing audit and research, identifying opportunities for the promotion and participation in such activities
• Embrace the Essence of Care Framework and actively participate in its implementation locally
• Support Nurse Led Discharge within area of responsibility and actively participate in discharging/transferring ‘medically fit’ patients to more appropriate settings.

Working for our organisation

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest in the country, with a workforce of approximately 15,000 who serve a population of 1.2 million people.

We work together, and in conjunction with MSE Health and Care Partnership, to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients in a compassionate way, and provide a respectful, but vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

From facilities through to consultant specialists we want to be the best, to achieve this we need to recruit not just those who are the finest in their field but also those who have the potential to be. Yes, experience is important but so is outlook – if you are dynamic, forward-thinking and enthusiastic we want you to join us.

We not only offer you a good working environment with flexible working opportunities, but also the opportunity to develop your career with access to appropriate training for your job and the support to succeed and progress.