Staff Nurse - Ward F6

As a staff Nurse in Emergency surgery you will be a valued member of the team, providing high quality care to patients in a professional and compassionate manner. You will be supporting patients on the emergency pathways during their surgical admission through to their recovery. You will be joining an experienced team who strive to provide excellent patient care whilst promoting best practice.

#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community

We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.

The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.

Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.

We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.

With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.

We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.

This is a perfect environment to have supported learning and development in surgical nursing. You will be supported in a well established team, with excellent working relationships with the multidisciplinary teams.

F6 is a 33 bedded unit which consists of 5 x bays and 3 x SR's

The ward is fast paced and very busy, we have a mixture of patients on the ward and some of these can be very sick, they also may need to go to theatre. We work closely with multi- disciplinary teams some of these being pain team, colorectal nurses, Palliative care, Dieticians and Diabetes.

You will be joining a diverse team passionate in providing patients with the best possible experience.

Please be aware, there is 1 Full time, 7 month Fixed term position available and 2 Full time, permanent positions available.