Acute Stroke Nurse

Are you looking for an opportunity to develop your leadership and teaching skills and advance your knowledge and competence in stroke specific care?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced nurse to develop as a senior staff nurse/stroke specialist nurse on Stroke Unit at Colchester Hospital

You will be an enthusiastic, flexible and well-motivated nurse with a strong commitment to nursing stroke patients.

As a key member of the stroke and ward nursing team you will ensure high quality stroke/TIA care is delivered. You will be part of a multi professional team providing 24/7 hyper acute stroke care on a rota basis. Induction and full training will be provided for both.

Working across the Trust you will help facilitate patient flow and achieve the standards set within the National Clinical guidelines for stroke.

You should have proven experience at Band 5 in stroke care or acute medicine.

You will need to have:

• The ability to work autonomously
• An ability to make safe and speedy clinical judgments in an emergency situation
• The desire to develop your stroke clinical skills and knowledge
• Evidence of teaching, mentoring and supporting other staff
• Excellent communication and team work skills
• Good organisational skills

For further information about this role please contact:

Rebecca Lester -

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.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

To comply with UK Government regulations on sponsorship we are unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold. Full guidance on sponsorship can be found Skilled Worker visa:
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Please note that where response levels are exceptional we may close the post before the specified date, therefore early application is recommended.

In line with AfC Terms and Conditions new entrants to NHS will commence on the entry level of the salary