# Staff Nurse - Notley Ward > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/staff-nurse-notley-ward/16db7121-9ccf-4f15-93be-749eb526b477 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/staff-nurse-notley-ward/16db7121-9ccf-4f15-93be-749eb526b477.md ## Summary - **Status:** Archived / closed - **Employer:** Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Southend University Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Staff nurse - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £32,073 Per Annum (Pro Rata for Part Time) - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 9 months (Internal rotation or secondment) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Internal rotation) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-25T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-20T09:40:32.179Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Essex/Chelmsford/Mid_South_Essex_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Trauma_Orthopaedics/Trauma_Orthopaedics-v8193185 - **Employer website:** https://www.southend.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are currently looking for Band 5 Nurses to come and join our team on Notley ward, our 28 bedded Trauma orthopaedic ward for Mid and South Essex. Our ward prides itself in providing a high standard of patient care, experience, and quality service. Our team is friendly, supportive, vibrant and dynamic; everyone is encouraged to participate as a member of the team in developing their nursing skills. We offer a structured band 5 competency programme and support to complete mandatory training. We also apply for post graduate courses as they become available. We hope to attract a wide range of experience for the post; we welcome applicants that are newly qualified or have experience in different areas who would like to join our team therefore previous orthopaedic experience is preferred but not essential. Shift Patterns: Night – 19.15 – 07.45, Long day – 07.00 – 20.00 Please note that we are unable to support applications from candidates that still require an OSCE. Therefore, applications without a valid NMC pin will be unable to progress. ### Main duties of the job Your role will be to provide a high standard of individualized care to patients, whilst maintaining at all times their privacy and dignity, assessing care needs, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care and contributing to supporting the Senior Sister/ Charge Nurse. You will support the maintenance of high standards of cleanliness in their own clinical area, communicate effectively and work in partnership with patients, their relatives/carers, nursing colleagues and members of the multidisciplinary team to ensure care is delivered in an accurate and efficient manner whilst establishing and maintaining good communication with the ward/department administrative, housekeeping and domestic staff. You will become an effective team member who will consistently organise and deliver individualized patient care, ensuring patients’ physical, social and psychological needs are met whilst supporting Nurse Led Discharge within area of responsibility and actively participate in discharging/ transferring ‘Medically fit’ patients to more appropriate settings. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities All applicants do need to have motivation, flexibility, enthusiasm, hardworking and a willingness to learn quickly. Outstanding patient care skills are essential to support the patient, and a determination to continuously improve and develop services. We welcome people with innovative ideas and the ability to help make them happen. For full details about this varied and rewarding role, please see attached job description. We look forward to your application! ### 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 ### Experience **Essential** - Ward experience **Desirable** - Mentorship course / NHS experience ### Qualifications **Essential** - NMC registered **Desirable** - Degree in nursing ## 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) - [general statements afc - v5.2 (pdf, 592.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2979) - [staff nurse - notley - br - b5 (pdf, 264.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10707976) - [leadership and management framework (pdf, 120.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2880) ## 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.