Staff Nurse - Ward C18B
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 09/09/2026
- Closes
- 23/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Band 5 Staff Nurse to work on an 18-bedded Surgical ward, primarily caring for patients undergoing Emergency and Elective Vascular surgery. The role involves pre and post-operative care, medication administration, wound care, and managing complex patients. The successful applicant will start at Royal Blackburn Hospital but will transfer to Preston Hospital when the Vascular Service centralises. We are looking for enthusiastic and dynamic nurses with excellent communication skills and a desire to deliver high standards of nursing care.
Key responsibilities
- Responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development of programmes of care.
- Implement and evaluate care programmes.
- Carry out all relevant forms of care without direct supervision.
- Demonstrate procedures to and supervise qualified and/or unqualified staff.
- Administer medication, including controlled drugs, by various routes.
- Record physiological observations and perform wound care.
Essential criteria
- Registered 1st Level or equivalent as verified by NMC
- Able to take on board new ideas, skills and knowledge.
- Ability to problem solve.
- Be numerate.
- Able to manage the care for a group of people and prioritise workload with minimal supervision
- Be proficient at calculating drug doses
- Able to write basic reports
- Able to train less qualified staff/learners
- Moving and handling, customer awareness, computer/keyboard skills
- Be able to work in a team
- Be supportive of team members
- Able to communicate effectively to patients, visitors and colleagues
- Able to listen actively
- Able to reflect on one's own work
- Have effective interpersonal skills
- Be enthusiastic, conscientious and sympathetic
Desirable criteria
- To have knowledge of current research applicable to the post's specialist area.
- Able to present reasoned discussion
- Evidence of continuous development
- Be able to work with minimal supervision within the job description
- To be able to work under pressure
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 C18B
The closing date is 23 September 2026
Job summary
Clinical Speciality: Vascular surgery
Ward: Ward C18B
Locality: Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital, Blackburn
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 Staff Nurse to work on an 18 bedded Surgical ward, primarily taking care of patients who undergo Emergency and Elective Vascular surgery with nursing ratio of 1-6 on the day shift and 1-9 on the night shift.
The Vascular Service nationally is ever improving and evolving and there is current plans to have a centralised service for all East Lancashire patients at Preston Hospital in the future . The successful applicant would start their new role as Staff nurse at Royal Blackburn Hospital however when the Vascular Service moves in the futures you will be expected to transfer to Preston Hospital with all the other staff and services .( no confirmed dates as yet as still at planning stage ).
Main duties of the job
General duties will include pre and post- operative care for general surgical patients, administration of medication, including controlled drugs, by various routes, recording of physiological observations, wound care, management of complex patients with multiple issues, escalating care when needed, management of pain management systems . Documentation is also an essential par
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