Job summary
- Main area
- Plastic Surgery
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 28 hours per week
- Job ref
- 390-B&P-BR-3353
- Employer
- Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Broomfield
- Town
- Chelmsford
- Salary
- £31,049 Per Annum (Pro Rata for Part Time)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Staff Nurse - Hand Trauma Unit
Band 5
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute hospital provider in the Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System (ICS), which is a system of health and care partners working together for our local population.
Within Mid and South Essex there are 149 GP practices, operating from over 200 sites, forming 27 Primary Care Networks and one Ambulance Trust. There are also three main community and mental health service providers who work together through a community collaborative.
We collaborate with other valuable partners, including three Healthwatch organisations, nine voluntary and community sector organisations and three top tier local authorities, with seven district, borough and city councils, as well as our local universities.
Job overview
We are looking for a dedicated professional to join our Hand Trauma Nursing Team within St Andrew's Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery.
This band five role will include working in our regional Hand Trauma Unit as well as assisting in our procedure room.
As a regional trauma centre we take referrals from all over the south eastern region for hand trauma injuries, and triage them appropriately into our specialist services. We see same day emergencies as well as routinely booked patients. We operate in main theatres as well as our own procedure room within the trauma unit seven days a week. Our working environment is fast paced and ever changing.
As well as a passion for delivering excellent; specialist care, the ideal candidate will possess a keen enthusiasm for developing their own clinical skills, in the specialty of plastic surgery and hand trauma. This will include undertaking theatre scrub competencies.
So, if this sounds like the right role for you, please apply today.
Main duties of the job
In your role, your duties will cover:
- Providing excellent and safe care to a variety of patients.
- Promoting Trust values and behaviours.
- Taking referrals from internal and external clinical areas.
- Delivering advanced wound care.
- Delivering Nursing care within our Trauma Unit.
- Delivering Nursing care within our procedure room acting as either a scrub or circulating Nurse.
- Providing safe pre, peri and post operative care to plastic surgery patients.
- Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Contributing to service improvement strategies and data collection.
- Contributing to wider research projects within the Plastic Surgery Hand Trauma department.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details of this fast-paced and varied role, please see attached job description.
We look forward to receiving your application.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NMC registration
Experience
Essential criteria
- Healthcare experience
Desirable criteria
- Theatre experience
- Surgical setting experience
- Plastic Surgery experience
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Louise Neal
- Job title
- Senior Sister
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01245 516561
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