Inpatient Rehabilitation Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 08/09/2026
- Closes
- 22/09/2026
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 a motivated and compassionate Inpatient Rehabilitation Nurse to join the Henderson Rehab Unit in Thornbury. You will work with elderly service users in a 19-bedded physical rehabilitation unit, focusing on improving quality of life and promoting independence. The role involves assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care for patients with various conditions, working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
Key responsibilities
- Provide, monitor and ensure that a high standard of safe and effective nursing care is maintained via professional actions, verbal and written skills.
- With the support of senior staff be responsible for the initial holistic assessment, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care for patients who are acutely and chronically unwell; often with complex needs arising from the frail elderly cohort.
- Carry out a range of routine and non-routine tasks including medication rounds, clinical observations, planning, implementing, and evaluating care plans, assisting patients to meet their daily care needs, health promotion, venepuncture, planning discharges for patients.
- Work weekends and bank holidays on a rostered basis, including both day and night shifts.
Essential criteria
- BSc or equivalent experience in adult nursing role
- Current NMC registration
- Effective communication skills written, verbal and no-verbal with the ability to adapt communication for individuals with communication difficulties
- Able to function effectively as a team member
- Able to make clinically reasoned judgements when working with a variety of conditions
- Able to work autonomously, and ability to know when to seek appropriate advice / guidance from senior staff
- Good problem solving skills
- Effective time management and caseload management
Desirable criteria
- Have experience in a wide variety of nursing areas, including in the acute setting (this may be as student placements if newly qualified)
- Able to carry out the range of professional services and technical elements in a ward including clinical assessment and record keeping.
- Experience of the application of health, safety and risk management policies Working with a range of professionals in Health or Social Care
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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Sirona care & health CIC
Inpatient Rehabilitation Nurse
The closing date is 22 September 2026
Job summary
We are looking for motivated, compassionate and ambitious nurses who have a genuine interest in working with elderly service users and delivering high standards of care. We are looking for Nurses who are wanting to provide our patients with the best experience and treatment possible and are ready for the challenge of helping us to further develop our rehabilitation services. Could this be you?
Henderson Rehab Unit is based at Grace Care Centre in Thornbury and is at the heart of our Pathway 2 rehabilitation service. If you are a Registered Nurse who enjoys working with patients to improve quality of life and promote independence then this is an exciting opportunity to join us in our 19 bedded physical rehabilitation unit.
You will work as part of our multidisciplinary team, all working together, to deliver individualised nursing and rehabilitation care to patients with the common goal of delivering the best outcomes possible for our patients.
Our patients present with a broad range of conditions including orthopaedic, frail elderly, post-surgery and long term neurological conditions and we work with them to help them attain the highest level of personal independence prior to discharge.
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