Registered Nurse | and North NHS Foundation Trust

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Registered Nurse to join our Specialist Frailty Services in North East Essex, you would be part of multidisciplinary team providing specialist frailty input into our Emergency Department team at Colchester Hospital, and working in the Frailty Rapid Assessment Service and the Frailty Hospital at Home team (virtual ward) covering North East Essex.

We are looking for a talented Registered Nurse with commitment and enthusiasm who is willing to learn and has the ambition to be the best they can be in raising the profile of Frailty Services.

Proposed Interview date 14th April 2026

• To identify, assess, and co‑ordinate admission avoidance for frail patients ensuring identified nursing needs are met across the frailty services.
• To provide specialist advice and supervision to other professions outside and within the multidisciplinary teams and across organisational boundaries.
• To act as a key worker and use assessments, pathways and processes to provide a wide range of nursing, therapy, social and voluntary sector care assessments for patients who may be at risk of hospital admission.
• To ensure appropriate assessment, planning and implementation of care and assist in the interpretation of information relevant to the patient’s condition/progress identifying problems and needs of patients, and set realistic goals.
• Take responsibility, using a key worker approach, for integrating, co‑ordinating and proactively monitoring patients’ health and wellbeing needs, so that the individual receives the best possible care in the most appropriate place. Refer to step up facilities where appropriate.
• To take proactive steps in identifying and co‑ordinating complex care packages according to patient/carer need, with special regard to those with complex nursing care needs.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

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.

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

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