Staff Nurse - Infectious Diseases (Ward 8D)
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Hours / week
- 37.5
- Posted
- 10/09/2026
- Closes
- 21/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting full-time opportunity for a Staff Nurse to join the Infectious Diseases Unit (Ward 8D) at Liverpool University Hospital. The role involves working 37.5 hours per week on an internal rotation, caring for patients with acute and chronic infections. You will be responsible for assessing, planning, delivering, and evaluating nursing care as part of a multi-disciplinary team. The ward offers a supportive environment with an excellent preceptorship programme for professional development.
Essential criteria
- Sound clinical nursing knowledge and a good understanding of nursing issues and clinical governance
- Demonstrates awareness of own limitations
- Other
- Supportive of colleagues
- Ability to work in changing environments
- Committed to high standards of patient care
- Exemplary personal standards of conduct and behaviour
- Maintain both personal and professional development
- Willingness to be flexible and adaptable
- Registered Nurse, current NMC registration
- BSc in Nursing (Diploma in Nursing as a minimum)
Desirable criteria
- Practice Assessor/Practice Supervisor Training
- Post registration qualification in relevant specialty
- Recent clinical nursing experience as a student or as a registered nurse
- Experience within relevant clinical setting
- Evidence of maintaining a clinical learning environment
- Evidence of working with learners
- Ability to organise workload and delegate tasks appropriately
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Ability to support less experienced staff
- Ability to problem solve
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Basic IT skills, including e-mail and word processing
- Sound clinical nursing knowledge and a good understanding of nursing issues and clinical governance
- Demonstrates awareness of own limitations
- Other
- Supportive of colleagues
- Ability to work in changing environments
- Committed to high standards of patient care
- Exemplary personal standards of conduct and behaviour
- Maintain both personal and professional development
- Willingness to be flexible and adaptable
- Registered Nurse, current NMC registration
- BSc in Nursing (Diploma in Nursing as a minimum)
- Practice Assessor/Practice Supervisor Training
- Post registration qualification in relevant specialty
- Recent clinical nursing experience as a student or as a registered nurse
- Experience within relevant clinical setting
- Evidence of maintaining a clinical learning environment
- Evidence of working with learners
- Ability to organise workload and delegate tasks appropriately
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Ability to support less experienced staff
- Ability to problem solve
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Basic IT skills, including e-mail and word processing
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.
Posted 1d ago · Closes in 11d
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Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Staff Nurse - Infectious Diseases (Ward 8D)
The closing date is 21 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Infectious Diseases Unit: Medical Directorate at Liverpool University Hospital (New Royal site) for a dynamic, committed, compassionate and highly enthusiastic staff nurse to join a hardworking and close knit team.
The post is for a full time position to work 37.5 hours per week on internal rotation. We will also be looking for a further maternity cover band 5 in which if found a reserve applicant will be offered. Shifts consist of long days, early shifts/late shifts and night shifts.Ward 8D is a 28 bedded infectious diseases ward isolation rooms managing patients with acute infections such as meningitis, CDT, Influenza, E.coli Bacteraemia's, Urinary Infections, Cellulitis, food-borne infections and tropical infections experienced by returning travellers, also chronic conditions such as HIV.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible and accountable for the assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of nursing care.
You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team caring for patient and undertaking delegated tasks from the ward manager/ward sister with the opportunity to improve and expand on your clinical knowledge.
On 8D there is a supportive, friendly team ma
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