At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead and support the Children's Outpatient Department, ensuring safe and compassionate care.
- Company: Join the East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, a leading healthcare provider.
- Benefits: Enjoy flexible working, generous leave, and access to NHS discounts.
- Other info: Be part of a dynamic team dedicated to transforming healthcare for children and families.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in children's lives while driving innovation in healthcare.
- Qualifications: Experienced Children's Nurse with leadership skills and a passion for service improvement.
The predicted salary is between 41850 - 51150 $ per year.
Children's Outpatient Sister | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Company
Company: Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust
Are you an experienced Children's Nurse with a passion for leadership, innovation and service improvement?
We are seeking an enthusiastic, motivated and forward-thinking Senior Children's Nurse to lead and support our Children's Outpatient Department and Investigations Unit(CDCU).
This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in transforming services and developing new models of care to meet the changing needs of children, young people and their families.
Working alongside consultants, specialist nurses, allied health professionals and the wider multidisciplinary team, you will provide expert clinical leadership across both areas, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective and compassionate care while driving innovation and continuous improvement.
This is fixed term/secondment role for 18 months, 26.25 hours per week.
- Accountable for own professional actions and provides clear professional leadership to the team
- Acts as an effective role model and expert clinician
- Ensures that safe, effective patient care is always delivered
- Assess, plan and implement care according to individual needs;
- Promotes and maintains accurate and contemporaneous clinical records
- Facilitates optimal patient journey and effective and timely discharge
- Provides effective communication between ward team and all members of the multidisciplinary team
- Accountable for own professional actions and provides clear professional leadership to the team
- Acts as an effective role model and expert clinician
- Ensures that safe, effective patient care is always delivered
- Assess, plan and implement care according to individual 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.
- generous pension scheme
- unsocial hours payments (where applicable)
- 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata)
- access to a range of NHS discounts
- Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Mattersto 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 bringwhat'swidely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
- This advert closes on Tuesday 18 Aug 2026
- Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust
- Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust
- Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust
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