Staff Nurse Intensive Care Unit
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 11/09/2026
- Closes
- 27/09/2026
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
Join the Intensive Care Unit at West Cumberland Hospital as a Band 5 Registered Nurse. This role involves providing adult intensive care, high dependency care, and post-anaesthetic care for a variety of medical and surgical patients. The unit also specialises in stabilising and transferring paediatric patients to specialised ICUs. You will benefit from a dedicated Clinical Educator who supports on-the-job training and continued professional development.
Essential criteria
- Registered nurse with a valid registration
Desirable criteria
- Foundations in critical care or equivalent.
- NoECCN Step competences 1 & 2 completed or equivalent.
- Further relevant post registration development to postgraduate diploma equivalent.
- Knowledge and Experience
- Student nurse in the NHS
- General nursing in the NHS or equivalent.
- Continuing professional development with portfolio
- NMC code of professional conduct.
- Equality legislation and best practice.
- ITU/HDU Nursing experience
- Mentor to pre-registration nursing students.
- Budgetary awareness.
- Critical care
- Skills and Aptitudes
- Developed communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work as a member of a team, without close supervision
- Project development skills.
- Ability to demonstrate the compassionate values and behaviours needed for dignified care.
- IT skills.
- Immediate Life Support (ILS)
- Paediatric Immediate Life Support (PILS)
- Motivation.
- Enthusiasm
- Willing to develop by expansion of the role.
- Flexible approach to working patterns.
- Registered nurse with a valid registration
- Foundations in critical care or equivalent.
- NoECCN Step competences 1 & 2 completed or equivalent.
- Further relevant post registration development to postgraduate diploma equivalent.
- Knowledge and Experience
- Student nurse in the NHS
- General nursing in the NHS or equivalent.
- Continuing professional development with portfolio
- NMC code of professional conduct.
- Equality legislation and best practice.
- ITU/HDU Nursing experience
- Mentor to pre-registration nursing students.
- Budgetary awareness.
- Critical care
- Skills and Aptitudes
- Developed communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work as a member of a team, without close supervision
- Project development skills.
- Ability to demonstrate the compassionate values and behaviours needed for dignified care.
- IT skills.
- Immediate Life Support (ILS)
- Paediatric Immediate Life Support (PILS)
- Motivation.
- Enthusiasm
- Willing to develop by expansion of the role.
- Flexible approach to working patterns.
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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North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
Staff Nurse Intensive Care Unit
The closing date is 27 September 2026
Job summary
We are seeking an enthusiastic/ motivated Band 5 Registered Nurse or to join our team on the Intensive Care Unit at the West Cumberland Hospital. The Trust will provide a twelve month preceptorship period for all newly registered healthcare professionals. ****
Healthcare Professionals returning to practice, moving into new roles or changing clinical environments, may access an agreed preceptorship period.
Main duties of the job
Our busy 6 bedded general ICU unit provides adult intensive care/ high dependency care and post anaesthetic care for elective and emergency patients across a range of medical and surgical specialities including, Renal, Cardiology, Respiratory,Orthopaedic, Neurological and Obstetric patients. Within our ICU we are actively involved in stabilisation and transfer of adult patients requiring more specific intensive care e.g. neurological trauma, burns, spinal injuries, cardiac and hepatic disease. The ICU at WCH also specialises in the stabilisation and delivery of intensive care / high dependency care of paediatric patients, prior to transfer to a specialised Paediatric ICU. The ICU at WCH benefits from our own dedicated Clinical educator, who provides and facilities on the job training alongside co-
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