# (**) Registered Nurse - Critical Care/HDU > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/registered-nurse-critical-carehdu/9aa64922-ace0-4751-9abc-49f96448caf1 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/registered-nurse-critical-carehdu/9aa64922-ace0-4751-9abc-49f96448caf1.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Southend University Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Registered nurse - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £32,073 Per Annum (Pro Rata for Part time) - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Internal rotation) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-28T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-14T15:01:04.093Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Essex/Westcliff_on_Sea/Mid_South_Essex_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Critical_Care/Critical_Care-v8236494 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8236494?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.southend.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Staff Nurse – Critical Care We are excited to be recruiting Staff Nurses to join our dedicated Critical Care team. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your skills while delivering safe, compassionate, and high-quality care to some of our most acutely unwell patients. As part of the role, you will rotate through both the Critical Care Unit and High Dependency Unit (HDU), gaining experience in caring for both Level 2 and Level 3 patients. This will enable you to build strong, transferable skills across a wide range of clinical presentations. To support your development, all new starters receive a comprehensive induction programme and will be supported to complete the National STEPs Critical Care Competencies. In addition, you will benefit from regular study days in our high-fidelity hospital simulation suite, ensuring you are fully equipped to deliver excellent patient care. We are looking for motivated, adaptable, and compassionate nurses with a genuine passion for critical care. In return, we offer a supportive environment, structured development opportunities, and the chance to be part of a highly skilled, friendly, and patient-focused team. ### Main duties of the job Your role will be to provide a high standard of individualised care to patients, whilst maintaining at all times their privacy and dignity, to assess care needs, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care, to contribute to supporting the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse and to support the maintenance of high standards of cleanliness in their own clinical area. Our vision in Critical Care is to deliver holistic care to critically ill patients whilst we endeavour to promote and establish evidence based practices and the highest level of individualised care for our patients and their families, whilst ensuring that the privacy and dignity of patients is maintained and religious and cultural beliefs are respected. To achieve this we work in a collaborative manner, with a multidisciplinary approach encouraging good communication which ensures that all patients are cared for in a safe caring and compassionate environment. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities For more information on this varied and rewarding role, please see the attached Job Description. We look forward to your application! Please be aware that we reserve the right to close the vacancy early should a high number of applications be received. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. 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 ### Qualifications **Essential** - NMC Registration **Desirable** - Diploma in Nursing ### Knowledge and Experience **Essential** - Ability to evidence experience / knowledge in an acute care setting - Understanding of fundamentals of nursing care **Desirable** - Evidence of working within hospital environment ## Documents - [privacy policy (pdf, 441.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2077) - [afc pay poster 26/27 (pdf, 44.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2504) - [trust 10 year strategy (pdf, 2.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2947) - [applicant ms teams checklist (pdf, 560.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2943) - [general statements afc - v5.2 (pdf, 592.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2979) - [leadership and management framework (pdf, 120.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2880) - [staff nurse critical care - tac - so-b5 (pdf, 216.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10695311) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.