Associate Practitioner - Layer Marney

Overview

Go back East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 02 October 2025

Exciting opportunities available for Associate Practitioners to join the Layer Marney ward at Colchester Hospital.

Layer Marney Ward is a 33 bedded respiratory ward, caring for patients with acute and chronic lung conditions. It also has a dedicated acute respiratory unit, caring for patients with non-invasive ventilation, CPAP and high flow nasal oxygen therapy.

If you are enthusiastic, well-motivated, with a flexible approach and you relish a challenge then join our team in delivering excellent standards of care.

Main duties of the job

• You will meet the needs of the Trust with regard to Induction, mandatory and statutory training
• You will meet the direct and indirect care needs of patients under the delegation and supervision of a Registered Nurse
• You will ensure high standards of patient care at all times, in line with Trust policies and guidelines
• You will work as an effective member of the nursing and wider multi-professional healthcare team
• You will work within the boundaries of the role of the HCA supporting more junior colleagues as required and refer to the Registered Nurse as appropriate

About us

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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Job responsibilities

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

Person Specification Experience

• Recently worked within a healthcare setting
• Experience of acute setting

Qualifications

• Qualified Associate Practitioner/ Nursing Associate diploma level or equivalent qualification e.g. NVQ3 plus, short courses or relevant experience up to diploma level
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Willingness to undertake further education

Knowledge

• Knowledge and understanding of evidence-based practice.
• Understanding and ability to apply clinical governance principles to practice.
• Knowledge of developments in nursing
• IT literate
• Knowledge of developments of wider health issues

Skills

• Ability to work effectively in a team under instruction.
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to manage own workload
• Ability to communicate at appropriate level both written and verbal
• Ability to escalate as appropriate
• Motivated and enthusiastic.
• Ability to delegate
• Ability to lead a small team
• Ability to teach and coach junior member of the team

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.

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust