Staff Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time, Flexible working
- Hours / week
- 23
- Posted
- 13/08/2026
- Closes
- 30/08/2026
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 Staff Nurse role on Wyre Forest Ward involves providing rehabilitation care to patients, focusing on their comfort and wellbeing to promote independence. You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, administering medications and facilitating the day-to-day running of the ward. The position encourages ongoing learning and development through reflection and clinical supervision, aiming to support patients' transition back into the community. It is a part-time post working 23 hours per week.
Essential criteria
- Ability to challenge poor behaviour
- Role modelling good behaviour
- A positive attitude and able to act on feedback
- Ability to praise and be supportive to others
- Ability to communicate effectively in English in both verbal and written formats
- Able to work competently without supervision
- Reflective practitioner
- Compassion and empathy skills
- Flexible, lateral thinker
- Excellent communication skills
- Proven ability to motivate others
- Versatile and adaptable
- Self-motivated
- Able to cope under pressure
- Team player
- Basic IT skills
- RGN/RMN
- NMC Registered
- I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.
Desirable criteria
- Practice Supervisor and/or Practice Assessor Training.
- Accredited courses in Palliative Care, Tissue Viability, Diabetes, Dementia
- Experience gained during pre-registration training
- Experience gained working in the frailty care setting.
- Additional Criteria
- Responsible for own professional development
- Confidence to teach student nurses, patients, carers and members of the multidisciplinary team
- Understanding of evidence-based nursing, multidisciplinary working, clinical governance
- Awareness of Audit
- Evidence of on-going continuing professional development
- Medication administration via various routes PO, PR, S/C, IM, IV
- Experience of Audit
- Knowledge and understanding of Mental Capacity and DOLs
- Skills & Abilities
- Ability to challenge poor behaviour
- Role modelling good behaviour
- A positive attitude and able to act on feedback
- Ability to praise and be supportive to others
- Ability to communicate effectively in English in both verbal and written formats
- Able to work competently without supervision
- Reflective practitioner
- Compassion and empathy skills
- Flexible, lateral thinker
- Excellent communication skills
- Proven ability to motivate others
- Versatile and adaptable
- Self-motivated
- Able to cope under pressure
- Team player
- Basic IT skills
- RGN/RMN
- NMC Registered
- I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.
- Practice Supervisor and/or Practice Assessor Training.
- Accredited courses in Palliative Care, Tissue Viability, Diabetes, Dementia
- Experience gained during pre-registration training
- Experience gained working in the frailty care setting.
- Additional Criteria
- Responsible for own professional development
- Confidence to teach student nurses, patients, carers and members of the multidisciplinary team
- Understanding of evidence-based nursing, multidisciplinary working, clinical governance
- Awareness of Audit
- Evidence of on-going continuing professional development
- Medication administration via various routes PO, PR, S/C, IM, IV
- Experience of Audit
- Knowledge and understanding of Mental Capacity and DOLs
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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Job summary
Do you want to work for a Trust that C.A.R.E.S?
Here at Wyre Forest Ward we are passionate about
delivering outstanding care to our patients and continually strive to provide a
seamless transition from a hospital environment back into the community.
This is a part time post working 23 hours per week.
Our Ward is predominantly Nurse and Therapy led allowing
our passionate RNs to exercise their clinical practice alongside developing
management and leadership skills in a friendly, dynamic and supportive
environment.
We want your courage, your ambition, your ability to
respond and willingness to learn and develop.
We want you to feel empowered to make a real difference
to your patients, enabling the frailest to feel supported as they transition
into the next stage of their lives.
Whatever your nursing background, it is your ability to
inspire your team, adapt and integrate methods of care to support your patients
that will help us all, at HWHACT, to ensure we can continually deliver our
vision and values by working together for outstanding care.
Main duties of the job
As a Staff Nurse you will be responsible for providing care to
people admitted to our ward for rehabilitation. We work closely as a
multi-disciplinary team. Our focus is promoting the comfort and
wellbeing of patients, enabling them to live as independently as
possible. As a team we encourage
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