Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Staff Nurse – Lister Ward/Discharge Lounge
The closing date is 02 June 2026
Join our compassionate and dedicated team on Lister Ward!
We’re looking for enthusiastic and motivated Staff Nurses with a genuine passion for delivering high-quality, patient-centred care. Whether you’re newly qualified or an experienced nurse, this is a fantastic opportunity to develop your skills and make a real difference to the lives of our patients and their families.
Lister Ward is a 14-bedded unit specialising in elderly care medicine. Working as part of our skilled multidisciplinary team, you’ll support patients throughout their journey — from admission to discharge — ensuring a positive and compassionate experience at every stage.
In addition to the medical beds we run an 11-bed discharge lounge, this promotes patient flow across the hospital. Here you will learn to fine-tune your discharge skills.
This role offers variety, challenge, and reward in equal measure. You’ll gain invaluable experience in clinical care and discharge planning, while developing strong leadership skills within a supportive and inclusive environment.
If you are caring, committed, and eager to grow your nursing career within a collaborative team, we’d love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
- To provide a high standard of individualised care to patients, whilst maintaining at all times their privacy and dignity
- To assess care needs, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care
- To contribute to supporting the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse
- To support the maintenance of high standards of cleanliness in their own clinical
- To communicate effectively and work in partnership with patients, their relatives/carers, nursing colleagues and members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure care is delivered in an accurate and efficient manner
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Establish and maintain good communication with the Ward/Department administrative, housekeeping and domestic staff
- To be responsible for ensuring all patients and their relatives/carers are kept fully informed of patients’ treatment/progress and discharge plans/after care.
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.
Qualifications
- NMC registration
Experience
- Experience on a medical ward
- Experience with care of the elderly
Knowledge
- Understanding of fundamentals of nursing care
- Understanding of acute healthcare
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Salary
£32,073 a year per annum (Pro rata for part time)
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