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Registered General Nurse

County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation TrustDarlington Memorial Hospital NHS Trust, Hollyhurst Road, Darlington, County Durham, DL3 6HX, United Kingdom£32,073 - £39,043Closes 08/09/2026

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Band
Band 5
Contract
Permanent
Pattern
Full-time
Posted
07/09/2026
Closes
08/09/2026

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Role summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Acute & Emergency Care team at Darlington Memorial Hospital as a Registered General Nurse on the Acute Medical Unit. The role involves working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate care for medical emergency patients, providing first-line treatment. The aim is to rapidly plan care to facilitate discharge home from the AMU. The ideal candidate will be enthusiastic, dynamic, and highly motivated, contributing to a committed, caring, and compassionate team.

Key responsibilities

  • Assess patients needs and develop, implement and evaluate plans of care.
  • Organise the delivery of nursing care, deploying staff effectively.
  • Communicate to team members changes to patient information and treatment plans.
  • Adhere to NMC standards of record keeping.
  • Supervise the work of nursing support staff, ensuring tasks undertaken have been delegated appropriately.
  • Participate in the education and training of junior staff.

Essential criteria

  • Clinically up to date with Nursing Skills, Venepuncture, cannulation, catherterisation and ECG recording
  • Registered Nurse on part 1 of the NMC register
  • Valid UK NMC PIN
  • Good communication
  • Reliable and Enthusiastic
  • Interests in all aspects of Acute Medical Assessment
  • Must have current NMC PIN

Desirable criteria

  • Able to work under pressure
  • Mange stress
  • Post registration experience in medical nursing assessment skills.
  • Mentoring of junior staff.
  • Teaching certificate
  • Interest in further development.

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.

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County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust

Registered General Nurse

The closing date is 08 September 2026

Job summary

This is an exciting time to join Acute & Emergency Care

at Darlington Memorial Hospital as we continue to improve the process and

experience for patients who are admitted to Hospital in an emergency. We are

seeking to appoint a Registered General Nurse to join our Acute Medical Unit.

If you like a challenge, and are able to work at a very fast

pace,enjoy working collaboratively then working as part of our Acute Medical

Unit multidisciplinary team may be the job for you. It would place you as a

member of a committed, caring and compassionate team, who are supportive and

knowledgeable about their specialty.

You will work closely with our experienced and friendly

multi disciplinary team to assess, plan, implement and evaluate the medical

emergency patients care, providing first line treatment. This rapid plan of

care enables 40 percent of admissions to be discharged home from the AMU.

To continue in this excellent work we are

looking to recruit an enthusiastic, dynamic and highly motivated nurse to join

our team.

Main duties of the job

To assess patients needs and develop, implement and

evaluate plans of care.

To

organise the delivery of nursing care, deploying staff effectively.

To be

aware of, and communicate to team members, changes to

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