Registered Nurse - Haldane Ward | York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in York is seeking a Band 5 nurse to join their dynamic team. The role requires surgical experience and involves providing high-quality nursing care, maintaining patient safety, and ensuring compliance with health standards. The position offers a great work-life balance and several attractive benefits, including a substantial relocation package and access to the NHS pension scheme.

Benefits

NHS Pension Scheme

27 to 33 days holiday

Generous relocation package

Employee Assistance Programme

NHS Car Lease scheme

Cycle to Work scheme

Learning and development opportunities

Discounts from various providers

Qualifications

• Essential surgical experience required.
• Confident decision-making skills needed.
• Maintaining high standards of patient care.

Responsibilities

• Provide assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of nursing care.
• Maintain a clean and safe working environment.
• Promote positive relationships among staff and patients.

Skills

Surgical experience

Decision making

Patient communication

Infection control compliance

Education

Nursing qualification

Job description

Job Overview

The East Coast Day Surgery Team cover elective day surgery on Haldane and Lloyd wards, and are closely affiliated with the preoperative assessment team, often supporting in all areas to ensure our elective surgical patients have a smooth transition through their elective surgical journey.

The East Coast Day Surgery team are moving forward to also assist with benign non-surgical urological treatments on both the Scarborough and Bridlington sites. This is an exciting move which will broaden the skill set of the day unit, provide east coast capacity for patients and also bring the team in line with our York Day surgery colleagues.

We offer a Monday to Friday day time only service, meaning an excellent work/life balance for our team members. With the opportunity to partake in Waiting list Initiatives on limited weekends, which are paid additionally.

Due to this expansion of services we are looking to recruit a Band 5 nurse to join our dynamic and versatile team. It is essential that the successful candidate has surgical experience as confident decision making, with support from Band 6’s, is vital in this nurse led environment.

Application Process

• Interviews for this position will be held in person only at the hospital site. Remote interviews will not be available.

• The validity of Nursing and Midwifery Council PIN will be checked before shortlisting (Only applicable to registered roles) - inaccuracies in NMC PIN details will mean your application will not be progressed.

• Interested candidates are encouraged to make contact with the Recruiting Manager to have an informal discussion about the role.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a high standard of patient focused care in accordance with York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust policies and procedures.
• Maintain a safe and clean working environment.
• Provide assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care for patients, ensuring accurate written records are kept.
• Communicate with patients and carers to ensure they have access to appropriate information.
• Promote and maintain positive relationships between all staff involved in the care of the patient.
• Act in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Council Code of Conduct.
• Undertake duties on different wards/departments as and when required by service demands.
• Demonstrate personal responsibility for compliance with infection control policies and procedures.

Education and Training

This description indicates the main functions and responsibilities of the post. It is not intended to be a complete list. It will be amended as necessary in the event of future changes.

Benefits

• Access to the NHS Pension Scheme, providing generous benefits upon retirement, as well as a lump sum and pension for dependants.
• 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service).
• A generous relocation package of up to 30% of salary (capped at £18k) to support relocation expenses for hard to fill positions where relocation would be an expectation to undertake the role fully.
• A variety of different types of paid and unpaid leave covering emergency and planned leave.
• Confidential advice and support on personal, work, family and relationship issues, 24/7, from our Employee Assistance Programme.
• NHS Car Lease scheme and Cycle to Work scheme.
• An extensive range of learning and development opportunities.
• Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping, motoring, cinema and finance from a range of providers.

Additional Information

Trust Information Pack: https://yorkhospitals.pagetiger.com/hdjgxd

Our values play into our ambition to develop a more diverse workforce, truly representative of our communities. We welcome applications from everyone, while working with our Staff Networks – including our Race Equality, LGBTQ+, Disability and Carers Networks – to increase the number of applications we receive from different backgrounds. If there is anything we can do to make our application process more accessible to you, please contact [e-mail].

As part of seeking to become more inclusive, we will consider requests for flexible working from the start of your employment. It may not be suitable for every role, but we will try and be supportive where we can. We would encourage you to speak to the recruiting manager named within this advert to discuss any requirements you may have.

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Advert closes on Monday 24 Nov 2025.