Registered Nurse - Ward 5A
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 09/09/2026
- Closes
- 23/09/2026
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
This role is for a dynamic Registered Nurse on Ward 5A, a busy ENT, Plastics, and female surgical ward. The nurse will provide evidence-based care, support junior staff, and ensure a safe and clean environment for patients. Responsibilities include managing safeguarding, administering medication, wound management, and maintaining accurate documentation. The position offers diverse training opportunities, including tracheostomy and leech therapy.
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse on part 1, part 2 or part 12 of the NMC register
- Commitment to lifelong learning
- Evidence of further education, training and on-going learning
- Ability to produce updated personal professional portfolio
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of Assessing and Mentorship qualification
- Evidence of appropriate Specialist Qualification
- Evidence of good communication skills both written and verbal
- Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team
- Good self-awareness of professional limitations within NMC Code of Conduct
- Ability to prioritise workload and demonstrate good organisational skills
- Computer literacy
- Venipuncture and cannulation
- Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion
- Role model our Trust values every day
- Awareness of strategies for maintaining a safe environment for patients, staff and visitors
- Flexibility around working hours with clinical and rotational shifts
- Knowledge of appropriate specialist nursing care requirements
- Resource management (awareness of budget/supplies)
- Qualifications / Training
- Registered Nurse on part 1, part 2 or part 12 of the NMC register
- Commitment to lifelong learning
- Evidence of further education, training and on-going learning
- Ability to produce updated personal professional portfolio
- Evidence of Assessing and Mentorship qualification
- Evidence of appropriate Specialist Qualification
- Evidence of good communication skills both written and verbal
- Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team
- Good self-awareness of professional limitations within NMC Code of Conduct
- Ability to prioritise workload and demonstrate good organisational skills
- Computer literacy
- Venipuncture and cannulation
- Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion
- Role model our Trust values every day
- Awareness of strategies for maintaining a safe environment for patients, staff and visitors
- Flexibility around working hours with clinical and rotational shifts
- Knowledge of appropriate specialist nursing care requirements
- Resource management (awareness of budget/supplies)
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 14d
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East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
Registered Nurse - Ward 5A
The closing date is 23 September 2026
Job summary
We are recruiting for a Registered Nurse who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
Ward 5a is a busy ENT, Plastics and female surgical ward, we are looking for a Dynamic registered nurse to join our team and support patients to receive the best care, we pride our-self on our good team work and happy work place.The role of the band 5 on ward 5A is diverse and has lots of training opportunities from tracheostomy to leech therapy, all training will be given to the successful candidate.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values:Include,Respect, andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
To provide patient with evidence and researched based care, support junior staff, to look after patients in a safe and clean environment, to manage safeguarding of vulnerable adults, to give kind and compassionate care to patients.
Medication rounds, wound management, precise and clear documentation, ensuring care plans are clear and up to date, looking after patients nutritional needs and ensuring we encourage independence.Mentoring junior staff and students.
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