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From the employer's advert, checked 26 October 2026.
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors as “Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust” (Skilled Worker). Register checked 23 October 2026.
About the job
Job summary
Staff Nurse - Critical Care
We are excited to be recruiting Staff Nurses to join our dedicated Critical Care team. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your skills while delivering safe, compassionate, and high-quality care to some of our most acutely unwell patients.
As part of the role, you will rotate through both the Critical Care Unit and High Dependency Unit (HDU), gaining experience in caring for both Level 2 and Level 3 patients. This will enable you to build strong, transferable skills across a wide range of clinical presentations.
To support your development, all new starters receive a comprehensive induction programme and will be supported to complete the National STEPs Critical Care Competencies. In addition, you will benefit from regular study days in our high-fidelity hospital simulation suite, ensuring you are fully equipped to deliver excellent patient care.
We are looking for motivated, adaptable, and compassionate nurses with a genuine passion for critical care. In return, we offer a supportive environment, structured development opportunities, and the chance to be part of a highly skilled, friendly, and patient-focused team.
Main duties of the job
Your role will be 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 and to support the maintenance of high standards of cleanliness in their own clinical area.
Our vision in Critical Care is to deliver holistic care to critically ill patients whilst we endeavour to promote and establish evidence based practices and the highest level of individualised care for our patients and their families, whilst ensuring that the privacy and dignity of patients is maintained and religious and cultural beliefs are respected.
To achieve this we work in a collaborative manner, with a multidisciplinary approach encouraging good communication which ensures that all patients are cared for in a safe caring and compassionate environment.
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 responsibilities
For more information on this varied and rewarding role, please see the attached Job Description.
We look forward to your application!
Please be aware that we reserve the right to close the vacancy early should a high number of applications be received.
Job description
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