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Band 5
Full-time

Staff Nurse

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS TrustPershore Hospital, Queen Elizabeth Drive, Pershore, Worcestershire, WR10 1PS, United Kingdom£32,073 - £39,043Closes 20/09/2026

At a glance

Band
Band 5
Contract
Permanent
Pattern
Full-time
Posted
03/09/2026
Closes
20/09/2026

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Role summary

This Staff Nurse role is based at Pershore Community Hospital, working on a 26-bed inpatient ward focused on rehabilitation. You will collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to provide patient-centred care, aiming to reduce length of stay and promote independence. The role involves administering medications, facilitating ward operations, and participating in ongoing learning and development. The hospital emphasizes providing excellent, safe, and compassionate care.

Key responsibilities

  • Provide care to people admitted to wards for rehabilitation, working closely with the multidisciplinary team.
  • Promote the comfort and wellbeing of patients, enabling them to live as independently as possible.
  • Facilitate the day-to-day running of the ward, including administering medications.
  • Work alongside all members of the MDT, patients, their families and carers to provide 24/7 rehabilitation.
  • Assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient focused nursing care.
  • Document care given and maintain contemporaneous records in accordance with Trust policy and NMC Code of Professional Conduct.

Essential criteria

  • Experience gained during pre-registration training.
  • Confidence to teach student nurses, patients, carers and members of the multidisciplinary team.
  • Understanding of evidence-based nursing, multidisciplinary working, clinical governance.
  • Awareness of Audit.
  • Evidence of on-going continuing professional development.
  • Able to carry out physical requirements of the role e.g. using mechanical hoists to move patients.
  • RGN/RMN.
  • NMC Registered.
  • I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.
  • Ability to challenge poor behaviour.
  • Role modelling good behaviour.
  • A positive attitude and able to act on feedback.
  • Ability to praise and be supportive to others.
  • Ability to communicate effectively in English in both verbal and written formats.
  • Able to work competently without supervision.
  • Reflective practitioner.
  • Compassion and empathy skills.
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Proven ability to motivate others.
  • Versatile and adaptable.
  • Self-motivated.
  • Able to cope under pressure.
  • Team player.
  • Basic IT skills.

Desirable criteria

  • Experience gained working in the frailty care setting.
  • Medication administration via various routes PO, PR, S/C, IM, IV.
  • Experience of Audit.
  • Knowledge and understanding of Mental Capacity and DOLs.
  • Practice Supervisor and/or Practice Assessor Training.
  • Accredited courses in Palliative Care, Tissue Viability, Diabetes, Dementia.

Useful to know

Band 5 pay context

Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.

This advert: £32,073 – £39,043 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.

Application window

Posted 2d ago · Closes in 16d

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Job summary

We are

currently recruiting a Band 5 nurse to be part of our team at Pershore

Community Hospital, which has an inpatient ward with 26 beds. The candidates

will work closely with the multidisciplinary team (MDT) to achieve specific

rehabilitation goals.

Pershore Community Hospital plays a critical role in the delivery

of local NHS services, providing more care and treatment closer to peoples

homes. Emphasis is to reduce length of stay whilst ensuring excellent care

which is safe, effective, personalised and compassionate and to the standards

you would expect for your family and friends.

Join our team, we pride ourselves in

providing outstanding care to patients across Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

We will provide you with resources to develop and progress a long-term career

as well as flexibility, continual professional development as well as a wide

range of wellbeing and support.

Main duties of the job

As a

Staff Nurse you will be responsible for providing care to people admitted to

our wards for rehabilitation. We work closely as a multi-disciplinary team. Our

focus is promoting the comfort and wellbeing of patients,

enabling them to live as independently as possible. Evesham is a friendly team to work with. As a

team we encourage ongoing learning and development through reflection and

clinical supervision which we try and embed in our daily practice.

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