Senior Staff Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 03/09/2026
- Closes
- 17/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated Senior Staff Nurse to join the Sub-Acute Stroke Unit at South Bristol Community Hospital. The role involves working closely with the Unit Manager and Band 6 team to ensure the smooth running of the 30-bed unit. You will develop leadership skills and expertise in Stroke Nursing, providing rehabilitation assessment and focused therapy to 'medically optimised' individuals. This position offers a chance to grow as a clinical leader and make a significant difference to patients and their families.
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse with NMC registration
- Skills, Knowledge & Experience
- Able to effectively lead a team (with senior support where required)
- Able to make clinically reasoned judgements when working with a variety of conditions.
- Experience of supervising staff and students of own profession, including mentorship.
- Able to function effectively as a team member
Desirable criteria
- Recent relevant experience within the community setting including management of the frail complex patient
- Experience of supervising staff and students from other professions
- Registered Nurse with NMC registration
- Skills, Knowledge & Experience
- Able to effectively lead a team (with senior support where required)
- Able to make clinically reasoned judgements when working with a variety of conditions.
- Experience of supervising staff and students of own profession, including mentorship.
- Able to function effectively as a team member
- Recent relevant experience within the community setting including management of the frail complex patient
- Experience of supervising staff and students from other professions
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 2d ago · Closes in 13d
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Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated nurse with excellent communication skills to join our team as a Senior Staff Nurse on our Sub-Acute Stroke Unit.
Our unit consists of 30 beds at South Bristol Community Hospital, which provides a purpose built rehabilitation environment where individuals who are 'medically optimised' can receive rehabilitation assessment, along with focused therapy and support from our multidisciplinary team, to support independence.
Working closely with the Unit Manager and alongside our supportive Band 6 team, you'll play a key role in the smooth running of the unit, while developing your leadership skills and building your expertise in the rewarding and evolving field of Stroke Nursing.
This is a fantastic opportunity to grow as a clinical leader, make a real difference to patients and their families, and take your nursing career to the next level.
Main duties of the job
- Responsible for the initial holistic assessment , implementation and evaluationof programmes of care for service users who are acutely and chronicallyunwell; often with complex needs arising from the stroke and frail elderlycohort
- Use clinical reasoning skills to assess, plan, implement and evaluate, person-centred intervention programmes incorporating physical, psychological, social,leisure and employment needs, using an evidence based practice
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