Staff Nurse - Ward C14B
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 09/09/2026
- Closes
- 23/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This role is for an enthusiastic and flexible Staff Nurse to join Ward C14B, a busy surgical ward specializing in HPB and colorectal surgeries. You will provide safe, personal, and effective care to complex surgical patients, managing between 5-8 patients per shift. Responsibilities include medication administration, wound care, recognizing deteriorating patients, and assisting with pre/post-operative care. The ward achieved a Gold accolade in the Nursing Assessment Performance Framework and is committed to high standards of patient care.
Essential criteria
- GCSE English at grade 5 or above or equivalent
- Grade 4/5 GCSE Maths
- NMC professional registration in adult nursing
Desirable criteria
- Experience of surgical nursing
- Familiarity with Cerner Millenium
- essential/desireable
- Grade 4/5 GCSE English
- Grade 4/5 GCSE Maths
- Intermediate computer skills for use with Cerner Millenium system
- NMC professional registration
- Experience of surgical nursing
- Familiarity with Cerner system
- desireable
- GCSE English at grade 5 or above or equivalent
- Grade 4/5 GCSE Maths
- NMC professional registration in adult nursing
- Experience of surgical nursing
- Familiarity with Cerner Millenium
- essential/desireable
- Grade 4/5 GCSE English
- Grade 4/5 GCSE Maths
- Intermediate computer skills for use with Cerner Millenium system
- NMC professional registration
- Experience of surgical nursing
- Familiarity with Cerner system
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 Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
Staff Nurse - Ward C14B
The closing date is 23 September 2026
Job summary
C14B is a busy surgical ward, looking after a variety of conditions from liver resections to cholecystitis. We currently have 17 beds and have a broad range of patients who deserve to receive high quality nursing care. We are looking for an enthusiastic, hard-working and flexible nurse to join the team. We care for patients who are electively undergoing surgery and emergency patients both HPB and colorectal. We are the regional speciality area for HPB surgeries and take patients requiring surgical/specialist interventions from Blackpool and the Fylde Coast, South Lakes and Lancaster.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for the safe, personal and effective care delivery to complex surgical patients, who require support from a wide range of nursing interventions, based on their individual needs. This will be ascertained following a detailed assessment of the patient on transfer to the ward either from the emergency surgical unit, theatre or critical care.
You will be responsible for between 5 and 8 patients usually, with medication administration, wound care, recognising deteriorating patients and acting accordingly, methods of specific analgesia such as PCA and epidurals, pre and post op care as well as managing patients stepping down form c
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