Job summary

Join Our Team at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust!

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is a leading Acute Hospital in the East of England, renowned for its commitment to delivering exceptional healthcare through innovation and teamwork.

We are proud to host the St Andrews Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery -- an internationally acclaimed regional centre of excellence serving a population of 3.2 million, with our specialised burns service extending care to nearly 10 million people across the region.

We're excited to invite an enthusiastic Band 5 Scrub Nurse to join our friendly, dedicated, and forward-thinking theatre team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone eager to take on new challenges and advance their skills within a dynamic and supportive environment.

Our department features five dedicated plastics surgery theatres, performing a wide range of elective plastic procedures and regional trauma cases. We are leaders in breast reconstruction and privileged to operate an internationally recognised burns unit that cares not only for the local community but also receives patients from across the globe.

If you're passionate about making a real difference and developing your expertise in a specialised field, we'd love to hear from you!

Previous applicants need not apply.

Main duties of the job

Main Duties of the Role:

Work closely with the multidisciplinary team to ensure perioperative patients receive high-quality, evidence-based nursing care.

Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate holistic and individualised care that respects each patient's dignity, values, and beliefs.

Promote and maintain a safe environment for patients, staff, and visitors in line with health and safety standards.

Communicate effectively with colleagues, patients, families, and visitors to support safe and compassionate care.

Serve as a clinical and professional role model, demonstrating specialist knowledge and consistently high standards of practice.

Provide support and guidance to students and newly qualified staff, acting as a mentor, educator, and assessor to promote evidence-based practice.

Assist in managing the theatre budget, including maintaining appropriate stock levels and ensuring cost-effective use of resources.

Maintain a professional portfolio and take responsibility for ongoing personal and professional development in line with the NMC Code, hospital policies, and procedures.

About us

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.

Job summary

Are you looking for a new challenge or to take the next step in your perioperative career? Within our 14 theatres at Basildon & Orsett Hospitals, we deliver a wide range of surgical specialities including Upper and Lower GI, Vascular, Urology, Gynaecology, Breast, Obstetrics, Maxillofacial, ENT, Trauma and Emergency, Orthopaedics, Head and Neck, Pain Management Surgery, and Elective and Emergency C-sections.

We are looking for enthusiastic Staff Nurses and Operating Department Practitioners (ODPs) who bring strong clinical knowledge, established theatre skills, or a real desire to develop into a Theatre Practitioner role.

Ideally, you will already have theatre experience and be confident in delivering high-quality care within the perioperative setting. However, we also welcome applications from newly registered practitioners or those seeking an exciting new career direction. With comprehensive training and development programmes, we will support you to gain the skills and confidence needed to thrive.

Teamwork, professionalism, and a commitment to safe, patient-centred care are essential for this role. In return, you'll join a motivated and friendly multidisciplinary team in a dynamic environment where every day brings new challenges and opportunities to learn.

If you're passionate about making a difference and ready to grow your theatre career, we'd love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

If successful you will be fully supported on our development programme until you are able to undertake the full range of duties, which include:

Ensuring all patients receive the highest possible standard of care, supported by evidence-based practice.

Taking part in cross-site rotation to meet the needs of the service on 24-hour basis.

Taking charge of a clinical area on a regular basis following successful completion of a development programme.

Working within the multi-disciplinary team ensuring good professional relationships.

About us

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.

Job summary

Are you looking for a new challenge or to take the next step in your perioperative career? Within our 14 theatres at Basildon & Orsett Hospitals, we deliver a wide range of surgical specialities including Upper and Lower GI, Vascular, Urology, Gynaecology, Breast, Obstetrics, Maxillofacial, ENT, Trauma and Emergency, Orthopaedics, Head and Neck, Pain Management Surgery, and Elective and Emergency C-sections.

We are looking for enthusiastic Staff Nurses and Operating Department Practitioners (ODPs) who bring strong clinical knowledge, established theatre skills, or a real desire to develop into a Theatre Practitioner role.

Ideally, you will already have theatre experience and be confident in delivering high-quality care within the perioperative setting. However, we also welcome applications from newly registered practitioners or those seeking an exciting new career direction. With comprehensive training and development programmes, we will support you to gain the skills and confidence needed to thrive.

Teamwork, professionalism, and a commitment to safe, patient-centred care are essential for this role. In return, you'll join a motivated and friendly multidisciplinary team in a dynamic environment where every day brings new challenges and opportunities to learn.

If you're passionate about making a difference and ready to grow your theatre career, we'd love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

If successful you will be fully supported on our development programme until you are able to undertake the full range of duties, which include:

Ensuring all patients receive the highest possible standard of care, supported by evidence-based practice.

Taking part in cross-site rotation to meet the needs of the service on 24-hour basis.

Taking charge of a clinical area on a regular basis following successful completion of a development programme.

Working within the multi-disciplinary team ensuring good professional relationships.

About us

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.

Job summary

Following the successful introduction of musculoskeletal First Contact Practitioners (MSK FCP) at our Trust in early 2019, Mid and South Essex Hospitals Trust are excited to be able to offer the opportunity to appoint more experienced outpatient MSK Physiotherapists to join our MSK FCP team. These posts will be based within Rayleigh PCN and South Woodham Ferries & Dengie PCN.

We are currently seeking experienced Band 7 or Band 8A physiotherapists with extended scope MSK skills to join our team of first contact practitioners working in a Band 8A role in a primary care setting.

Our FCP's would be expected to develop extended skills such as injection therapy and non-medical prescribing, for which training will be agreed and supported in conjunction with the successful candidate if these have not been previously completed.

We also offer development opportunities for competent Band 7 Physiotherapists to develop with us into Band 8A FCP roles.

Main duties of the job

As a highly skilled autonomous expert musculoskeletal (MSK) practitioner the post holder will be expected to work independently in the primary care setting, assessing, triaging and managing a wide range of complex MSK patients. Depending on service distribution they will support a band 7 FCP if based in a practice were two FCP are required.

Also, you will act as a point of clinical expertise within the primary care setting supporting and working with General Practitioners (GPs), nurse practitioners and other medical professionals to enable effective management of MSK conditions.

The posts create a fantastic opportunity for the successful candidates to work within a primary care setting providing clinical expertise in a role that will require the therapist to make decisions about the best course of action for a patients presenting with MSK conditions. The role would involve the use of advance knowledge and skills to rapidly assess, manage, investigate or triage to the appropriate hospital based specialties for further management. The role requires successful candidates to be able to communicate confidently and effectively across professions ensuring the seamless flow of patients across boundaries with the community, hospital Trust, social prescribers, pharmacy and other PCN related services.

You will be responsible for working collaboratively with both internal and external stakeholders to ensure that an effective and evidenced-based service is delivered.

About us

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.