Children's Outpatient Sister | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£49,387 - £56,515 per annum pro rata
Hours:	Part-time
Location:	Ipswich, IP4 5PD
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	7 Aug 2026
Closing date:	10 Sept 2026

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Summary

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.

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 thatTime 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

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