Job Description

An opportunity has arisen for you to join our team on Waverley Rehabilitation Ward at Fryatt Hospital, Harwich. We are looking for an enthusiastic, flexible and well-motivated registered nurse with a strong commitment to nursing patients in community hospital setting working alongside patients following stroke, orthopaedic surgery and with general rehabilitation needs.



If you are looking for an opportunity to develop your leadership skills, this is the role for you.



You will be a key member of the ward nursing team to ensure high quality care is delivered and will be part of a multi-professional team.



You will be required to work across the Trust to help facilitate patient flow and achieve the standards set within the National Clinical guidelines.



With the guidance of the ward manager and senior nurses, you will be responsible for providing leadership support, teaching within the unit and supporting audit processes. You will use your knowledge and education to enable your colleagues to deliver high quality, individualised care to your patients.



You must be patient focused, flexible, adaptable and capable of thinking laterally.



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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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.