CENTRALISED ADVERT - Band 5 Foundation Staff Nurse - 2025 Graduates

NHS; Oxford; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in Oxford is seeking Band 5 Foundation Staff Nurses for their Nurse Preceptorship Foundation Programme. Recent graduates are encouraged to apply. The role involves patient-centered care and requires full NMC registration. Competitive annual salary ranges from £31,049 to £37,796 per year, pro rata. Join us to make a difference in nursing and healthcare.

Qualifications

• Candidates must hold full NMC registration.
• Previous nursing experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care.
• Document and report care to multidisciplinary team.
• Respond calmly to emergency situations.
• Communicate effectively with patients and their families.

Skills

Patient-centered care

Clinical practice

Problem-solving

Education

Full NMC registration

Nursing degree

Job description

CENTRALISED ADVERT - Band 5 Foundation Staff Nurse - 2025 Graduates

The closing date is 26 November 2025

Foundation/Senior Staff Nurse - Band 5 - multiple vacancies

Locations: Oxford, Banbury, Oxfordshire

Calling all Adult and Dual Trained Graduate Nurses who have qualified in 2025!

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is currently recruiting to our Nurse Preceptorship Foundation Programme for UK nursing graduates. This is a fantastic opportunity to consolidate your nurse training by joining our Foundation Programme and starting your Nursing Career with Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

For more information or to arrange an informal conversation or visit please contact [e-mail]

NB for all critical care departments, paediatrics and theatres please apply directly to these areas.

Please note that this advert may close early if a high volume of applications are received.

Main duties of the job

Whether you want to work in one of our fast‑paced surgical wards, our leading cancer centre, our neurology and neurosurgery departments, excellent heart centre or refurbished and expanded emergency department, play a part in our Regional Major Trauma Centre or join one of our specialist medical departments, we have a vast array of options to develop and grow you as a nurse.

We have sites in Oxford and Banbury and satellite sites across the Thames Valley region for you to choose from. If you are successful at interview you will be added to our pipeline with the view to being allocated to the next most appropriate vacancy, which can take a couple of months.

Start the conversation with us today about our opportunities – and continue your nursing journey by contacting one of our specialist leads to explore the many career options we have to offer you, or apply directly via the link below.

Please note that applicants must hold full NMC registration.

Please ensure you include in your supporting statement why you have chosen OUH/Oxford, and the three top areas where you would like to work.

About us

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals – the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.

We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence, and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

In 2023 NHS England launched its first sexual safety charter, and our Trust proudly signed it. We pledge zero tolerance for inappropriate sexual behaviour and commit to the ten core principles.

Oxford University Hospitals promotes a safe, respectful hiring environment.

If you want to make a difference with us, come and join our team. Together, we will uphold the highest standards of care and professionalism.

Job responsibilities

• Demonstrate and promote a patient and family‑centred style of clinical practice.
• Be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care from admission to discharge.
• Accurately document and report to other members of the nursing team, multi‑disciplinary team and family/carers regarding the care given to patients, and communicating changes as they occur.
• Respond to emergency situations with composure, maintaining patient safety and seeking immediate support, and supporting the patient, family/carers and other staff as required.
• Identify and discuss patient needs with the team/staff, patients, carers and the multidisciplinary team. Be able to plan own workload.
• Demonstrate a problem‑solving approach to effectively execute planning, implementation and evaluation of individualized plans of care based on a person‑centred model of care.
• Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to patients, carers and other staff, overcoming barriers to understanding and providing support during distressing or emotional events.
• Maintain patient dignity and confidentiality at all times.

Person Specification

Experience

• NMC registered / Due to complete course
• Previous Nursing experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£31,049 to £37,796 a year per annum pro rata