Registered Nurse - Acute Assessment Unit
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 11/09/2026
- Closes
- 24/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Registered Nurse on a busy, fast-paced Acute Assessment Unit caring for adult patients with diverse medical conditions. The unit aims for a short average patient stay and works closely with inter-disciplinary teams to provide swift, safe, and high-quality care. The successful candidate will be professional, work effectively under pressure, and uphold Trust values, contributing to timely patient flow within the hospital.
Key responsibilities
- Provide nursing care for adult patients with diverse medical conditions in a fast-paced Acute Assessment Unit.
- Work closely with inter-disciplinary teams including Doctors, Nurses, and Therapists to ensure swift, safe, and high-quality patient care.
- Maintain professional standards and work effectively under pressure without compromising basic standards of care.
- Uphold Trust values and contribute to building the reputation of the Trust.
- Collaborate with colleagues from A&E, SDEC, and other medical wards to ensure timely patient flow.
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse and hold active registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
- Diploma/Degree level qualification relevant to role
- Professional qualification and knowledge of patient assessment, planning, developing and implementing programmes of care
- Evidence of mandatory and statutory essential training skills, for example, Basic Life Support, manual handling, infection control, fire etc
- Experience in nursing care, knowledge and expertise acquired through training
- Demonstrate experience of providing nursing care in the healthcare setting
- Professional clinical knowledge skills and skills that demonstrate the ability to assess, plan, develop and implement programmes of care
- Ability to apply professional judgement and problem solve
- Able to support learners and clinical supervision of junior staff.
- Able to support mentors in decisions related to students/learners and make judgements regarding competence and fitness to practice.
- Day to day management of a patient caseload and delegate effectively to clinical support workers.
- Able to maintain work-related record keeping.
- Ability to promote staff wellbeing and manage performance
- Clinical skills and competence relevant to role to support innovative, evidence based practice.
- Skills to assess and interpret complex needs of patients and able to give expert advice and guidance
- Participates in audit and research, able to understand recommendations for changes to practice and policy
- Digital Skills, use of systems, report writing and presentation skills
- Excellent communication skills and ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive information and provide reassurance and empathy.
- Commitment to own professional and personal development
- Budget and resource management skills
- Able to develop and maintain effective working relationships with all professional groups and senior managers within the organisation and external stakeholders.
- Maintains confidentiality and information governance principles and is accountable for actions and decision making
- Ability to delegate effectively and hold people to account
Desirable criteria
- Post Graduate qualification at Degree level relevant to role to demonstrate clinical skills
- NHS experience or relevant health care organisation
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.
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East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
Registered Nurse - Acute Assessment Unit
The closing date is 24 September 2026
Job summary
The Acute Assessment Unit is a busy fast-paced inpatient medical unit, that provides care for adult patients from age sixteen and over, with diverse medical conditions. We work closely with our inter-disciplinary teams, to ensure swift, safe and high-quality care for all our patients as we endeavour to maintain an average length of patient stay of seventy-two hours.
We pride ourselves on having an integrated friendly and welcoming team made up of Allied health professionals including Doctors, Nurses and Therapists. We work closely with our colleagues from Accident & Emergency (A&E), Same Day Emergency Care Unit (SDEC), all medical wards, other departments and areas within the hospital, ensuring timely patient flow, from A&E/SDEC to the appropriate wards/destination as per patients' medical requirement.
We are looking for a Registered Nurse who is passionate about working alongside clinicians caring for patient and is enthusiastic in upholding our Trust values and building the reputation of our Trust. We welcome the opportunity to meet with you.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will be expected to be professional while working effectively under pressure without compromising basic standards of care. We ensure all staff esp
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