Matron- Urgent and Emergency Care

Are you an enthusiastic, dynamic Senior Nurse looking for your next challenge in your nursing career?

Interested in joining a progressive Emergency care team, with the desire to play a major role in the development of the new pathway developments and future workforce plans for emergency care.

We are looking for an exceptional nurse with strong leadership skills to work alongside a senior Matron in our friendly, supportive Urgent and Emergency Care Clinical delivery group (CDG), covering the Emergency Department and the Emergency assessment units, based at Colchester Hospital.

The role will be predominately Monday to Friday although you will be expected to take part in the Quality Matron role at the weekend to support adherence to Safe care, supporting the nursing workforce and ensuring our patients have a positive experience.

Our Urgent and Emergency CDG's ambition is to enhance our emergency pathways, provide safe care, to improve waiting times and patient experience. The Urgent and Emergency areas include an Emergency Dept, AECU, Emergency Assessment Unit and a Same day Emergency care unit (AMSDEC)., Along with being part of a dynamic team providing clinical and professional leadership to an established workforce, our successful candidate will have the opportunity to design clinical pathways, take a lead in workforce planning and develop their own career with continuing education and development opportunities. You will also have the opportunity to further develop your strategic, operational and management skills in a supportive and innovative atmosphere.

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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