The closing date is 05 November 2025
Salary: £31,049 to £37,796 a year
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the HCOP (Health Care of Older People) team at QEHB.
There are multiple vacancies available across the Heritage Building on Wards East 2a, East 2b and Wellcome Ward. They include full time, part time, fixed term, and permanent positions.
We are inpatient wards, specialising in the Health Care of Older People. As part of our team, you will be welcomed into a supportive, collaborative environment where new ideas and personal development are supported and encouraged.
We are looking for motivated, experienced and enthusiastic individuals to join our nursing teams. You would be expected to demonstrate clinical skills, supervise unqualified staff, maintain a safe environment and always adhere to our Trust Values. Effective communication and organisational skills are a must within our multidisciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
As a Band 5 Staff Nurse within HCOP, you will provide high-quality, evidence-based care while playing a key role in supporting patients and their families through their healthcare journey.
You will be responsible for:
Delivering exceptional nursing care that aligns with trust values and standards.
Monitoring and assessing patients, providing holistic care that meets their individual needs.
Collaborate with colleagues to ensure seamless care across the division.
Always promoting patient safety and well-being.
To be responsible for ensuring all patients and their relatives/carers are kept fully informed of patients treatment/progress and discharge plans/after care.
To report all accidents, hazards, incidents and complaints in accordance with Trust policies and assist in investigation of them as required.
Demonstrate appropriate assertiveness and ability to challenge others when the rights of patients and others may be infringed.
Promote interdisciplinary working, with outcomes aimed at the best interests of patients and cohesive service delivery.
Generate and sustain relationships that promote dignity, rights and responsibilities.
Be accountable for own practice and for the delegation of care given to more junior colleagues, support workers and students.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Evidence of professional and clinical
- knowledge acquired through training to
- degree/diploma level leading to
- Professional registration on the
- appropriate part of the NMC register i.e.
- ( Adult / Child / Learning Disability or
- Mental Health)
- * Evidence of undergraduate education for
- newly qualified nurses / or post graduate
- continuing professional development for
- registered nurses who have post
- registration experience
Experience
Essential
- Previous / recent experience or working
- in an acute secondary health and care
- setting (can include undergraduate
- student placements within the last 12
- months)
- * Willingness to become a practice
- supervisor / assessor to or meets Nursing
- and Midwifery Council (NMC) standards
- for student supervision and assessment
- * Demonstrable understanding and
- knowledge of the NMC code of conduct
- and the proficiencies and standards for
- registered nurses can apply this to
- undergraduate training or post graduate
- practice
- * Being an accountable professional
- * Promoting health and preventing ill
- health
- * Assessing needs and planning care
- * Providing and evaluating care
- * Leading and managing nursing care and
- working in teams — including
- prioritisation and delegation skills
- * Coordinating care and responding to
- deteriorating health
- * Improving safety and quality of care
- * Awareness of current relevant clinical
- and professional issues and NHS policy
- * Understanding / experience of the
- principles of Safeguarding and Mental
- Capacity
- * Awareness of Health and Safety issues
Desirable
- Experience in working in an Acute NHS
- practice setting as an undergraduate student
- nurse or post graduate registered nurse.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Professional appearance
- * Displays genuine interest in the post
- applied for
- * Positive and enthusiastic attitude
- * Caring and approachable
- * Ability to work a varied shift pattern
- including nights / weekends unsocial
- hours where required
- * The applicant can describe why the Trust
- may deploy him /her to a different
- practice setting for a span of duty.
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).