Staff Nurse - Critical Care
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time
- Posted
- 01/09/2026
- Closes
- 14/09/2026
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Role summary
Join the Critical Care team at University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust during an exciting expansion phase, including a new 30-bedded unit. This role involves providing excellent patient care in specialities like trauma, surgical, medical, paediatrics, and cardiology. You will work with a multidisciplinary team and benefit from a bespoke in-house critical care training programme and rotational opportunities. The position offers significant career development and the chance to make a positive impact on patients and their families.
Essential criteria
- RGN 1st
Desirable criteria
- Experience within speciality
- Other requirements specific to the role
- Able to communicate with staff members, patients and relatives.
- Experience of managing acutely ill patients in a ward setting
- Post Registration ITU experience
- Technical Skills Competencies
- Able to operate Critical infusions
- Management experience within acute ward setting at Band 5 grade Staff nurse
- Management experience in HDU
- RGN 1st
- Experience within speciality
- Other requirements specific to the role
- Able to communicate with staff members, patients and relatives.
- Experience of managing acutely ill patients in a ward setting
- Post Registration ITU experience
- Technical Skills Competencies
- Able to operate Critical infusions
- Management experience within acute ward setting at Band 5 grade Staff nurse
- Management experience in HDU
Useful to know
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.
Posted 6d ago · Closes in 8d
Plenty of time to prepare a strong application.
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University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
Staff Nurse - Critical Care
The closing date is 14 September 2026
Job summary
Are you a motivated and enthusiastic staff nurse looking for your next challenge?
This is an incredibly exciting time in UHD with an expansion of Critical Care services across our site is now underway, including the building of a new 30 bedded critical care unit which will provide care in specialities such as trauma, surgical (including major vascular and maxillo-facial), medical, paediatrics and cardiology.
We are seeking nurses with a passion for providing excellent patient care with a particular interest in critical care to join our dynamic and rapidly expanding team.
You will be invited to work with the integrated multidisciplinary team and in return we offer a commitment to your professional development through a bespoke in-house critical care training programme and rotational opportunities to research and other high care areas.
This role offers the successful candidate an incredible opportunity for career development and a chance to make a positive impact on the lives of our patients, their families and on the wider service we provide.
Acute care experience is desirable as well as a goal of providing excellent nursing care, with an enthusiasm to learn being essential. We work 12 hour shifts, day and night, 365 days of the year.
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