Job summary

Are you a Registered Nurse with acute hospital experience?

We have a rare opportunity based in our Gynaecology department at Ipswich hospital. Our team in Gynaecology Clinic are seeking an experienced Nurse looking to develop their career within Women's Services.

This is a part time post 25 hours per week, fixed term/secondment contract for 12 months.

Main duties of the job

• Ensure that safe, effective and holistic patient care is delivered
• Assist patients with preparation for examination and clinical procedures.
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual programmes of care in partnership with clinicians, patients and relatives/carers
• Accurately observe patient's condition and initiate appropriate action
• Administer medication safely to patients, occasionally including IV and Controlled drugs
• To be responsible for the quality of data recorded. The data should be accurate, legible (if hand written), recorded in a timely manner, kept up to date and appropriately filed.
• Communicate effectively with patients and staff
• Communicate effectively with all members of the Multi professional team.
• To proactively utilise and implements all infection control policy's within the trust, ensuring effective use of personal protective equipment, hand washing/ decolonisation between activities and adherence to isolation procedures within your daily practice.
• To challenge any member of staff not undertaking correct infection control procedures, and to educate staff members in the correct procedures if required.
• To inform a relevant line manger if a staff member persistently fails to comply with infection control procedures.
• Participate in patient/carer education e.g. advice about patient's condition/needs, health promotion, post procedure care advice etc.

About us

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.

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