Staff Nurse - Hand Trauma Unit | Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 04 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £31,049 Per Annum (Pro Rata for Part Time) |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 03 January 2026 |
| Location: | Chelmsford, CM1 7ET |
| Company: | Southend University Hospital NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7662794/390-BP-BR-3353-A |
Summary
We are looking for a dedicated professional to join our Hand Trauma Nursing Team within St Andrew's Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery.
This band five role will include working in our regional Hand Trauma Unit as well as assisting in our procedure room.
As a regional trauma centre we take referrals from all over the south eastern region for hand trauma injuries, and triage them appropriately into our specialist services. We see same day emergencies as well as routinely booked patients. We operate in main theatres as well as our own procedure room within the trauma unit seven days a week. Our working environment is fast paced and ever changing.
As well as a passion for delivering excellent; specialist care, the ideal candidate will possess a keen enthusiasm for developing their own clinical skills, in the specialty of plastic surgery and hand trauma. This will include undertaking theatre scrub competencies.
So, if this sounds like the right role for you, please apply today.
In your role, your duties will cover:
• Providing excellent and safe care to a variety of patients.
• Promoting Trust values and behaviours.
• Taking referrals from internal and external clinical areas.
• Delivering advanced wound care.
• Delivering Nursing care within our Trauma Unit.
• Delivering Nursing care within our procedure room acting as either a scrub or circulating Nurse.
• Providing safe pre, peri and post operative care to plastic surgery patients.
• Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Contributing to service improvement strategies and data collection.
• Contributing to wider research projects within the Plastic Surgery Hand Trauma department.
Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.
We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.
For full details of this fast-paced and varied role, please see attached job description.
We look forward to receiving your application.
This advert closes on Thursday 18 Dec 2025