Job summary

Are you an experienced Children's Nurse looking to develop your career in a fast-paced, challenging, yet rewarding environment?

In order to enable us to maintain our commitment to high quality patient focused care, we are seeking to recruit an experienced Staff Nurse who will work within our amazing team in the Children's Assessment Unit / Emergency Department at Colchester Hospital

At East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust we are committed to providing high quality care to our patients and their families in an environment which is clean, safe and in an organisation which is forward thinking, innovative and supportive.

Main duties of the job

You will work as an integral member of the nursing team within Children's Services providing a high standard of child and family centred care.

You willbe an advocate for children and their families, promoting child focus, family-centred care and provide effective liaison with the multi-disciplinary team and other professional colleagues and agencies involved within the child's care

You will act as a role model in the delivery of patient care, support and teach staff contributing to the development of the service.

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• oProven experience of children's nursing
• oEvidence of managing and improving the patient experience

Desirable

Qualifications

Essential

Desirable