Registered Nurse - Dawlish Hospital

NHS; Dawlish; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Dawlish is seeking a Band 5 Staff Nurse to join their team. The successful candidate will provide high-quality patient care, be an advocate for patients, and work within a multi-disciplinary team. This role requires strong communication skills and the ability to manage responsibilities independently. The ideal candidate will have a Registered Nurse qualification and relevant clinical experience.

Qualifications

• Previous acute care experience, ideally in community settings.
• Skills in initial assessment and clinical governance.
• Training in ILS and CHC assessments.

Responsibilities

• Provide high standard patient care and assessment.
• Work within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver quality service.
• Engage patients and relatives in care decisions.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Ability to prioritise work

Broad general nursing skills

Interpersonal skills

Education

Registered General Nurse

Practice Assessor/Supervisor training

End of life training course

Dementia awareness training

Job description

Go back Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust

Registered Nurse - Dawlish Hospital

The closing date is 03 December 2025

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 5 Staff Nurse to join our Multi professional Team at Dawlish Community Hospital.

We are looking for someone who is eager to provide high quality care, be the patient advocate, promote and participate in shared governance and support in being a unit that is working towards Pathway to Excellence, you must have good communication skills, be organised and able to delegate task to appropriately trained colleagues.

You will need to be able to work as part of the multidisciplinary team in ensuring the patients/relatives views are part of the discussion and acting as patient advocate and liaison with patient / family and the MDT. The successful candidate will also be part of a rotational team supporting outpatient services within the local community at our Health and Well Being centre bringing service closer to the community.

Main duties of the job

• To provide a high standard of patient care assisting with the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of each patient.
• To work as a member of the ward to provide a quality service based on need, to all users of the service.
• To work as part of the multi-disciplinary Team.
• Must be able to work without direct supervision.
• Required to work internal rotation.

About us

Working as part of a team that respects individual points of view, welcomes suggestions for innovative working and values diversity.

To learn from patient and staff experience good or bad and to celebrate the positive and find ways of learning and changing from the negative sharing both with patients, relatives and colleagues.

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Job responsibilities

Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification.

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Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

• Registered General Nurse
• Previous acute care experience (This could be completed within your nurse training if newly qualified)
• Previous Community working (This could be completed within your nurse training if newly qualified)
• Practice Assessor/Supervisor training (Or working towards)
• End of life training course
• Dementia awareness training
• Undertaking CHC assessments
• ILS trained

Knowledge and experience

• Awareness of clinical audit and governance agenda
• Skills in initial assessment
• Venepuncture and cannulation
• Managing junior staff

Specific skills

• Interest in care of the Older Adult
• Ability to prioritise work
• Excellent communication, interpersonal skills both written and oral
• Broad general nursing skills and clinical knowledge base
• Numeracy and literacy skills
• Moving and manual handling skills
• Tissue viability, complex wound care
• End of Life care

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.

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust