Charge Nurse - Endoscopy

Ready to step into a leadership role and make a real impact? We're offering an exciting opportunity for a motivated and confident nurse to join us as a Charge Nurse within our Endoscopy service.

In this key role, you will support and deputise for the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse, ensuring the delivery of exceptional patient care and the effective management of staff, resources, and daily operations. You'll take the lead in coordinating activity across the Endoscopy Unit, including admissions, recovery, procedure rooms, pre‑assessment, audits, and the management of inpatient referrals.

You'll also play a vital role in ensuring that all flexible endoscopes and specialist equipment are safely decontaminated, maintained, and compliant with agreed guidelines, supporting the highest standards of safety and quality.

Initially, you will work with our friendly and dedicated team in the temporary Endoscopy Unit  April 2027, the service will relocate to a brand‑new, purpose‑built Community Diagnostic Centre in Pitsea, offering a modern environment designed to enhance both staff and patient experience.

If you're enthusiastic, organised, and ready to lead with confidence, apply now and take the next exciting step in your nursing career.

Decision making is based on sound theoretical and experiential base

• Provides rationale if departs from protocols, pathways and guidelines
• Plans whole episodes of care
• Anticipates potential problems
• Guides/teaches others to meet care needs
• Moves forward care
• Reviews impediments to patients progress
• Takes remedial actions
• Participation on the on‑call rota following completion of competences

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute hospital provider in the Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System (ICS), which is a system of health and care partners working together for our local population.

Within Mid and South Essex there are 149 GP practices, operating from over 200 sites, forming 27 Primary Care Networks and one Ambulance Trust. There are also three main community and mental health service providers who work together through a community collaborative.

We collaborate with other valuable partners, including three Healthwatch organisations, nine voluntary and community sector organisations and three top tier local authorities, with seven district, borough and city councils, as well as our local universities.

Please note, the selection processes at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right skills and values, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain vigilant against candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn't accurately reflect their skills, and you will be required to declare on your application if AI has been used before submitting your application.