Critical Care Staff Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time
- Posted
- 11/09/2026
- Closes
- 27/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
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Role summary
This role involves working as a skilled member of the nursing team in Critical Care, providing high standards of holistic, patient-centred care. You will be responsible for planning, assessing, implementing, and evaluating care programmes for individual patients. The position requires effective communication within the multi-disciplinary team and acting as a patient advocate. You will also develop and maintain clinical skills, including medication administration, ensuring evidence-based practice.
Essential criteria
- NMC registration
Desirable criteria
- PGCert Critical Care
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- Committed to patient centred care
- Ability to work well within a team
- Ability to administer IV drugs
- Awareness of cultural issues
- Demonstrable adult experience
- Experience of having worked with acute/critically ill adults
- NMC registration
- PGCert Critical Care
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- Committed to patient centred care
- Ability to work well within a team
- Ability to administer IV drugs
- Awareness of cultural issues
- Demonstrable adult experience
- Experience of having worked with acute/critically ill adults
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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Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust
Critical Care Staff Nurse
The closing date is 27 September 2026
Job summary
To work as a skilled member of the nursing team, to provide a high standard of holistic patient centred care.
Ability to promote patient centred care and establish good relationships with patients and carers.
To communicate effectively at all levels within the multi-disciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
To provide the highest standard of nursing care.
To plan, assess, implement and evaluate programmes of care for individual patients and to supervise other staff in this activity.
To ensure an ongoing welcoming, caring and safe environment is provided for the patient and their carers.
To act as an advocate for the patient and family, providing them with information and support and directing them to the relevant support services where appropriate.
To start planning discharges from admission, liaising with the multidisciplinary team, other departments and community services as necessary.
To develop and maintain clinical skills and knowledge necessary to provide holistic, evidence based nursing care. This includes expanded role responsibilities, following appropriate training.
To be competent in the administration of medication.
To ensure clinical practice is evidence based or peer reviewed "best practice".
About us
The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS
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