Charge Nurse / Junior Sister - Stradbroke

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a committed, enthusiastic and highly motivated junior sister/charge nurse to join our friendly team onStradbroke ward.

Stradbroke ward is a 27 bedded ward caring for patients with complex Gastroenterology and Surgical needs providing specialist care for patients with nutritional and alcoholic disorders. If you have experience of caring for Gastroenterology and/or Surgical patients, we would like to hear from you.

We pride ourselves in providing a supportive environment to develop knowledgeable and competent practitioners. There are various opportunities to continue to develop skill and a career pathway. For example, we offer training surrounding acute gastroenterology presentations, the deteriorating patient and emergency and elective surgical care., We are looking for an individual who will support the ward sister in leading and developing the wonderful nursing team in this department and promote multi- disciplinary working.

You will provide inspirational leadership to the department, be positively welcoming, effective and act as a credible role model.

You will have well-developed communication, change management and organisational skills, with a positive attitude and share in our vision and commitment to continuously develop and improve.

You should be caring, compassionate, forward thinking, well organized and have a positive attitude towards flexibility and change.

We are committed to upholding the Trust values and strive to enhance the patient's clinical journey by ensuring the patient is at the centre of their care.

If you are committed to providing high quality care and have the passion to ensure the continued development of the surgical services, the trust provides, we want to hear from you.

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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