Ward Sister / Charge Nurse - Layer Marney

This is an exciting opportunity for a band 7 ward sister/Charge Nurse to lead a caring and compassionate team specialising in the delivery of Respiratory services within Colchester Hospital.

We provide the highest quality of nursing care to both male and female patients, with acute and chronic respiratory conditions. The ward is a 33 bedded ward that includes a 4 bedded acute respiratory care unit, caring for patients that require advanced respiratory nursing support including non-invasive ventilation, CPAP and HFNO.

The applicant must be enthusiastic and motivated to lead in a busy acute environment. They should also have excellent written and oral communication skills, be able to organise and prioritise workload, be an effective, approachable leader and have a history of managing change and developing a safety culture and promote harm free care.

If you believe that you have the skills to lead the team on Layer Marney ward, then this is the job for you!, To provide high quality nursing care and continuing responsibility for the management of Layer Marney ward.

To provide direction and leadership to the nursing team.

To implement and manage effective change management.

Establish and maintain effective professional networking relationships with the multi-professional team across ESNEFT.

To take operational responsibility for the effective utilisation of all appropriate resources.

To work closely with the MDT and educational teams in the overall delivery of an integrated acute respiratory service.

To deputise in the absence of the Matron.

To be involved in clinical audit and teaching, Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if 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. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.

To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.

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

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One of the largest Trust's in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients' own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.