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Registered Nurse at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals – CoS Available

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Job summary

Join the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as a Registered Nurse. This full-time role offers the chance to work in a dynamic environment, providing excellent patient care in a variety of settings. The Trust supports ongoing professional development and values diversity, encouraging applications from a broad range of candidates.

Benefits

Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service

Multi Faith prayer room

Discounted gym memberships

Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement

Wagestream – access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it

Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH site

Free 24-hours confidential counselling support

On-site Nursery

On-site cafes offering staff discounts

Flexible staff bank

Qualifications

Registered Nurse with NMC registration.
Recent experience in an acute hospital setting is essential.
Strong communication and clinical skills required.

Responsibilities

Provide high-quality nursing care and apply evidence-based practice.
Carry out assessments and maintain accurate patient records.
Collaborate effectively with the multidisciplinary team.

Skills

Communication

Clinical competency

Patient care

Education

Registered Nurse on the NMC Register

Registered Nurse at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals – CoS Available

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NNUH) is seeking a dedicated and skilled Registered Nurse to join its dynamic team. This is an excellent opportunity to work in one of the busiest and most respected hospitals in the East of England, delivering high-quality patient care across a range of clinical areas.

The successful candidate will be a Registered Nurse on the appropriate part of the NMC Register, with strong clinical competency and the ability to apply enhanced practice relevant to their experience and speciality. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are essential, as is a commitment to delivering compassionate, patient-centred care.

NNUH offers a supportive working environment with opportunities for ongoing professional development. The Trust offers a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) for eligible candidates who meet the Home Office criteria.

About the Trust

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NNUH) provides healthcare to over one million people across Norfolk and surrounding areas. With a vision to provide the best care for every patient, NNUH seeks individuals who share its values to join a committed and compassionate team.

As the busiest Trauma Unit in the East of England, NNUH treats around 850 trauma patients each year, many with complex needs. The Trust is expanding its urgent and emergency care services with the ambition to become a Major Trauma Centre.

Guided by core values—People-focused, Respect, Integrity, Dedication, and Excellence—NNUH fosters a culture of continuous improvement and compassionate care. The Trust supports flexible working, including part-time roles and hybrid arrangements where appropriate.

NNUH is proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer and strongly encourages applications from underrepresented groups, including candidates from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities, and the LGBT+ community.

Position: Registered Nurse

Job Type: Full Time

About the Role:

An exciting opportunity has arisen at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital for motivated, enthusiastic, and experienced Band 5 nurses to join the General and Orthopaedic Preoperative Assessment (POA) team. This dynamic, nurse-led service plays a vital role in preparing patients for elective surgery across a wide range of specialties, including Orthopaedics, General Surgery, Gynaecology, Vascular, Upper GI, Colorectal, Breast & Endocrine, Urology, Plastics, ENT, and OMF.

The team supports both day case and Inpatient pathways, seeing approximately 400 patients per week.

The POA service is currently undergoing significant development, including the implementation of national initiatives such as “Waiting Well,” prehabilitation, and a new Digital Pre-Assessment System (DPOA) which provides a new pre screening element to POA meeting current GIRFT requirements.

Staff work closely with a multidisciplinary team that includes a nurse coordinator, pre op pharmacy and admin teams, prehabilitation practitioner, and anaesthetic support. This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to quality improvement projects and help shape the future of surgical care.

Applicants should be committed to delivering high-quality, compassionate care and embody the Trust’s PRIDE values: People-focused, Respect, Integrity, Dedication, and Excellence. We encourage behaviours that support and promote an inclusive culture.

At the Norfolk & Norwich Hospital, our team consists of approximately 40 nurses and runs up to 11 face-to-face nurse clinics per day supported by our HCA (Healthcare Assistant) team. We provide a 7-day service although weekends offer a reduced service, weekend work will be rostered on a rotational basis.

We currently have a second city centre location which runs Monday to Friday 2 nurse clinics per day, new team members may be required to work at this location on an ad hoc basis.

POA offers a friendly, professional, and innovative work environment with a culture of strong teamwork and mutual support. Previous surgical experience is an advantage as is a good basis of nursing knowledge, including an understanding of medications and patient comorbidities. Our nurses are well supported by our HCA (Healthcare Assistant) team who assist with much of the physical side of the patient assessment, the nurse role is therefore generally much less practical. A good level of IT skills is advantageous as a variety of IT systems are required to complete a nursing assessment.

The Unit embraces the opportunity for individuals to gain leadership skills to co-ordinate clinic activity, to identify effective use of the clinical area and management of the patient booking system. This is in line with the Trusts People’s Promise and the service’s future planning.

Working for our organisation

Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff!

The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.

We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity

We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:

Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
Multi Faith prayer room
Discounted gym memberships
Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
Wagestream – access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH site
Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
On-site Nursery
On-site cafes offering staff discounts
Flexible staff bank
Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Ensure practice is in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and work within limits of competence.
To have successfully completed the Trust’s preceptorship programme.
Maintain a high standard of nursing care applying evidence-based practice.
Carry out assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of nursing care without supervision.
Maintain accurate records of all care given.
Update patient administration systems e.g. PAS to ensure real time data collection and confidentiality.
To effectively use information technology for the benefit of patient care in accordance with the Trust’s Cyber Code of Conduct.
To maintain confidentiality of information (written, verbal, electronic), whilst being aware of the Freedom for Information Act.
To promptly and effectively communicate relevant changes in patient status to the multi-disciplinary team.
Communicate effectively with patients, relatives, carers, significant others, the multi-disciplinary team and support services.

Please refer to the Job Description for the full specification of responsibilities and requirements for this post.

Person specification

Qualifications

Registered Nurse on the appropriate part of the NMC Register

Experience

Recent experience of nursing in an acute hospital environment

Skills

Excellent communication and inter-personal skills
Competency in clinical skills including enhanced practice relevant to the level of experience and clinical area
Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH’s PRIDE values of People focussed, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence
Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Willingness to further develop knowledge and skills

The Job Description, which includes a Person Specification, provides a full outline of responsibilities and requirements for this role. Please use your supporting statement to demonstrate how you meet the person specification.

Visa and Immigration

If you are wishing to apply for this role and would require sponsorship (this includes if you are already in a sponsored post and looking to change employer), you can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for this post by assessing your circumstances against criteria specified on the gov.uk website https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa/your-job .

Travelling to work

Staff parking is available onsite; however, this is limited during core working hours. We have more capacity in the evening and at weekends and can usually provide spaces during those hours.

We look to allocate these spaces fairly. Our Travel Office have a set of criteria that staff must meet in order to qualify. If you qualify for a space, you may be placed on a waiting list if we are at full capacity.

The NNUH is served by a number of public buses, and we offer generously discounted monthly passes with First Bus &Konect.

The Costessey Park and Ride runs regularly each day from 06:30 (from P&R) to 20:45 (from NNUH) and this service is free for NHS staff. There is a regular Thickthorn P&R service as well which is free. Applications to the Travel Office are required for this service. We also have a discounted service from the airport P&R if you purchase a bundle. Please see Konect website for further details.

The NNUH host multiple bicycle racks and a salary sacrifice scheme. We also benefit from a Beryl station onsite.

If you work at another Trust site, please discuss travel and parking arrangements at interview.

DBS

If this post involves working with children or adults the application form will ask for information regarding previous convictions as you will be required to undertake a Criminal Record and Barring Check known as a DBS check.

If you are a new employee or registering with the Staff Bank you will need to meet the cost of this unless your salary is less than point 9 of Afc

NHS Service

Should you be appointed to the post we will need to establish any previous NHS service via the ESR IAT and we will accept the submission of your application as your agreement to this.

UK Registration

You will need to have current UK professional registration where this is a requirement of the role.

Application

Following candidate feedback and to reduce our dependency on paper, all our communication with you regarding your application will be by email so could you please check your e-mails (and Spam) regularly.

We value equality in our team and recruit from all sections of the community. We recognise there is a wealth of talent among people who have a disability and if you meet the minimum criteria detailed in the person specification and have a disability, you may wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme by indicating this in the relevant section on your application.

We look forward to receiving your application and if you do not hear within the next four weeks this will usually mean that you have not been short-listed. However, if you wish to confirm this please contact the person indicated on the advert.

Flexibility

Whilst every effort will be made to recruit to the post as it is advertised, there may be occasions where we consider alternative working patterns, such as part time working, or contract types, such as secondments, depending on circumstances. Should you wish to work in a different working pattern to that stated in our advertisement, please indicate this in the supporting statement to your application.

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