Location
Colchester General Hospital/Ipswich Hospital
Salary
£32,073 - £39,043 per annum pro rata
Profession
Nurse (adult and children)
Grade
Band 5
Deadline
03 Sep 2026
Contract Type
Permanent
Posted Date
24 Aug 2026
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Job overview

Are you a highly skilled, adaptive and enthusiastic Registered Nurse with proven post registration experience, looking for an opportunity to develop your skills, experience, and clinical knowledge across multiple specialities?

This role is only suitable for nurses already registered with the NMC with previous general acute experience.

Do you want the advantages of a permanent NHS position with the opportunity to team rostering? You are able to request as many or as little of your off duty as you like (typically 70-80% of these will be approved), we want you to thrive in your new role while maintaining a healthy work life balance. Choose your own shifts from available long days and nights. We have an exciting opportunity for you to join the Bures team, a team of experienced professionals who provide vital support across both Colchester and Ipswich hospitals. This dynamic role covers all adult clinical specialities, responding to ward escalation and operational demands to ensure wards and departments receive the support they need when they need it.

This unique position offers you the chance to develop your knowledge, broaden your expertise and gain accelerated experience across multiple specialities, empowering you to thrive in any situation and provide you with a stepping stone to future promotion.

Previous applicants need not apply

Main duties of the job

This role is perfect for someone who is eager to grow, embrace challenges and make a significant impact across the hospital.

We are committed to supporting you on this journey, providing the training and development needed to help you become the very best in this role.

In addition, we offer flexible working arrangements and self-rostering, we want you to thrive in your new role while maintaining a healthy work life balance. Request your own shifts from available long days and nights.

You’ll receive up to 2 weeks of supernumerary time in areas you may not have worked in before to build your confidence, knowledge and skills.

Areas of specialist training including: respiratory care, emergency care, cardiac care, oncology, care of the elderly, enhanced therapeutic care/mental health

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • To meet the needs of the Trust with regard to Induction, mandatory and statutory training
  • To work within the framework for Clinical Governance to provide effective, high quality individualised nursing care to patients and relatives/carers and to contribute to the continuing development of nursing practice.
  • To ensure high standards of patient care at all times, in line with Trust policies and guidelines
  • To work as an effective member of the nursing and wider multi-professional healthcare team
  • To work within the Trust’s Competency Framework for Registered Nurses, the Ward/Department Philosophy and the NMC Code of Conduct/ Professional Standards for the Protection of Patients.

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

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Person specification

Knowledge

Essential

  • Knowledge and understanding of evidence-based practice.
  • Understanding and ability to apply clinical governance principles to practice.
  • Knowledge of developments in speciality and current issues driving nursing in general

Desirable

  • Knowledge of developments in speciality and current issues driving nursing in general.
  • Nursing Care of Acutely unwell patients

Experience

Essential

  • Proven post qualifying experience in an acute setting

Desirable

  • Undertaken preceptorship
  • Experience on a clinical setting

Qualifications

Essential

  • NMC Registered Nurse
  • Evidence of continuing professional development.

Desirable

  • Coaching qualification.
  • Willingness to undertake further education

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This advert is for Registered Nurse - Bures Team with East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust in Colchester General Hospital/Ipswich Hospital. It is listed as a Band 5 Nurse (adult and children) role. The advertised salary is £32,073 - £39,043 per annum pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 03 Sep 2026.

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