Senior Staff Nurse - Helston
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 17/08/2026
- Closes
- 31/08/2026
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 role involves acting as a Senior Staff Nurse, deputising for the Ward Manager, and leading a team to deliver high-quality patient care. Responsibilities include assessing care needs, developing and implementing care programmes, and providing leadership and supervision to junior colleagues. The successful candidate will ensure effective communication within the multi-professional team and act as a role model in patient care delivery.
Essential criteria
- Current professional registration - NMC
- Post-graduate specialist training to degree level in relevant subject area, which must incorporate minor illness
- Mentorship/Teaching Qualification
- Evidence of current and on-going professional development
Desirable criteria
- Experienced in successfully implementing change management strategies
- Skills and Knowledge
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- A strong team player able to motivate and engage positively with colleagues
- Able to work under pressure and adapt to changing environments
- Budget management skills
- Education & Qualifications
- Current professional registration - NMC
- Post-graduate specialist training to degree level in relevant subject area, which must incorporate minor illness
- Mentorship/Teaching Qualification
- Evidence of current and on-going professional development
- Experienced in successfully implementing change management strategies
- Skills and Knowledge
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- A strong team player able to motivate and engage positively with colleagues
- Able to work under pressure and adapt to changing environments
- Budget management skills
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Staff Nurse - Helston
The closing date is 31 August 2026
Job summary
On behalf of the Ward Manager, and as the nurse in charge, liaise with members of the multi-professional team both within the department and beyond, to promote effective communication and to ensure high quality care is delivered to the patient both effectively and efficiently.
Please note:I f you are an internal candidate and wanting to apply for this position as a secondment opportunity. Before applying, please ensure you have discussed the post with your current line manager and obtained their agreement to support your release for the duration of the secondment.
Main duties of the job
To be responsible and accountable for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care in the ward setting.
To provide leadership, support and supervision to junior colleagues and to act as a role model in the assessing, planning, implementing, evaluation and delivery of a high standard of individualised care to patients and their carers while on the ward, or when appropriate throughout the hospital.
To deputise for the Ward Manager in their absence.
About us
We're an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based car
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