Job description
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An exciting opportunity has arisen for Registered Nurses to join the newly formed Durban ward located at Clacton and District Community Hospital. Durban ward is a 26 bedded unit which will provide Community step up and step down to patients who have a North East Essex GP.
Community Hospital wards within North East Essex provide care for patients who do not require acute nursing intervention and whose needs cannot be met at home. They also provide palliative or end of life care, recovery from acute illness, rehabilitation and IVABs.
Durban ward is planned to open during November 2026 to help support flow during seasonal pressures. Due to the trusts ambition to support a “home first” approach, Durban ward has potential to transition after the winter period to aSame Day Assessment Unit,providing rapid assessment, diagnostics, and treatment for appropriate patients, reducing avoidable admissions to the Colchester acute site.
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 must be patient focused, flexible, adaptable and capable of thinking laterally.
This role is not suitable if you are required to complete OSCE
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.
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 thatTime Mattersto 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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This advert closes on Sunday 11 Oct 2026