Charge Nurse | Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 08 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £37,338 per annum (pro rata for part time) |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 07 June 2025 |
| Location: | Basildon, SS16 5NL |
| Company: | Southend University Hospital NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7198122/390-CSS-MSE-9410-A |
Summary
We have an exciting opportunity for you to join us as a Charge Nurse supporting our Endoscopy service at Orsett community site.
You will support and deputise for the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse to ensure the provision of excellent nursing care and the effective management of staff and other resources. You will also carry out the day-to-day management and co-ordination of the Endoscopy Unit which would include admission, recovery, procedure rooms, pre assessment, audits and in patient referral management.
As the service grows we are expecting the service to move to Pitsea Community Diagnostic Centre in 2027.
You will ensure all flexible endoscopes and other specialised equipment within the Trust are decontaminated and maintained in accordance to agreed guidelines.
If this sounds like the right role for you, please apply today.
• Management of Patient Care
• Decision making is based on sound theoretical and experiential base
• Provides rationale if departs from protocols, pathways and guidelines
• Plans whole episodes of care
• Anticipates potential problems
• Guides/teaches others to meet care needs
• Moves forward care
• Reviews impediments to patients progress
• Takes remedial actions
• Participation on the on-call rota following completion of competences
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest in the country, with a workforce of approximately 15,000 who serve a population of 1.2 million people.
We work together, and in conjunction with MSE Health and Care Partnership, to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients in a compassionate way, and provide a respectful, but vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.
From facilities through to consultant specialists we want to be the best, to achieve this we need to recruit not just those who are the finest in their field but also those who have the potential to be. Yes, experience is important but so is outlook – if you are dynamic, forward-thinking and enthusiastic we want you to join us.
We not only offer you a good working environment with flexible working opportunities, but also the opportunity to develop your career with access to appropriate training for your job and the support to succeed and progress.
For full details of this rewarding role, please see attached JD, but some of your responsibilities will include:
• To be technically competent and clinically effective in assisting with Endoscopic diagnostic and complex therapeutic procedures.
• Assisting the Endoscopist during each procedure to ensure appropriate equipment is available.
• Taking biopsies, ensuring correct labels and proper/safe transfer of specimens
• Assessing, developing and implementing patient care pathways and evaluating care given, ensuring legibility and accuracy of nursing records, to be aware of legal implications of these documents.
• To provide support and guidance as a Team Leader, managing own team to assist them with progression to the role of ‘expert nurse’.
• To assist and supervise junior members of staff, (including staff nurses, HCA’s, and students). To ensure that all staff work to and achieve an acceptable safe standard and quality of care.
• Demonstrate effective communication with all staff ensuring dissemination and exchange of information. Ensure good communications exist between all health care professionals to promote harmonious working relationships and safe working practices.
This advert closes on Thursday 29 May 2025