Registered Nurse - Endoscopy | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 03 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £28,407 - £34,581 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 03 May 2024 |
| Location: | Colchester, CO4 5JL |
| Company: | Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6197569/432-HR08-24 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and experienced registered nurse to join our friendly Endoscopy team at Colchester Hospital.
We provide a service for inpatient and outpatients undertaking diagnostic and therapeutic procedures including bowel cancer screening, Endoscopies, Bronchoscopies, ERCP, EBUS and ascitic drains. We are a very busy unit providing care from 0730 to 1900 Monday to Sunday and also an out of hours on call service which Nurses, once trained, will be expected to participate in.
We will help you to learn and develop your current skills to the highest standards, enabling you to enhance your expertise in delivering a range of Endoscopic therapeutic interventions.
To join our enthusiastic team we are ideally looking for you to have proven Endoscopy experience.
If you would like to join our team and have the opportunity to enhance your own training and development, we want to hear from you. So join us and become part of this friendly team.
You will work collaboratively within the Endoscopy team and support the Endoscopy Manager to deliver a highly skilled, safe and efficient service for our patients.
In this role you will act as the named nurse and effectively manage the care of a group of patients. You will lead a team in the absence of the ward manager/or deputy on a shift by shift basis. You will also provide supervision and guidance for other more junior members of the team.
Salary will be pro rata for part time hours.
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 over 11,000 amazing colleagues providing care to 800,000 residents.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health & Wellbeing programme offer a range of services including mental health support. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.
Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto 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.
Find out about living and working with us -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPu7HphU8A
• Acts as a role model to develop and encourage harmonious working relationships and professional rapport within the department and with other disciplines, departments and external agencies.
• Adopts a leadership style that motivates and empowers junior staff in attaining and developing high standards of patient care and professional development.
• Uses clinical expertise and places the patient at the centre of all decision making.
• Ensures that the ward communication system flows with current information to and from link nurse forums and benchmarking groups for all ward staff.
• Ensures a safe environment is maintained for staff, patients and visitors.
• Uses risk assessment tools to inform the plan of care and evaluate its effectiveness.
• Participates in setting and implementing evidenced based standards of care within the ward in cooperation with the appropriate senior nurse.
• Participates actively in clinical benchmarking and organisational audit to improve standards of care.
• Adopts a customer service approach to maintain an excellent communication system with patients, relatives and other visitors and participates in a review of adverse patient experiences within the team in order to improve the service.
• Maintains the safe custody of patients property where appropriate according to hospital policy.
• Initiates investigations and participates in changes to nursing practice following complaints and/or clinic incidents.
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
This advert closes on Wednesday 17 Apr 2024