Staff Nurse

NHS; Newcastle-under-Lyme; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Newcastle-under-Lyme is looking for a Staff Nurse to join their urological specialist nursing team. The successful candidate will rotate across various aspects of urological nursing, manage patient care, and support a team environment. Key qualifications include trust IT skills and urological nursing experience. This role offers opportunities for professional development and a commitment to diversity and inclusion within a supportive healthcare setting.

Benefits

Wide range of development packages

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Ability to communicate sensitively with patients and relatives.
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills in difficult situations.
• Participate in annual appraisals with initial review within 6 months.

Responsibilities

• Communicate with patients and their relatives sensitively.
• Provide clear patient handover to team members.
• Escalate patient condition concerns to senior staff.

Skills

Trust IT skills

Urological experience

Team player

Understanding of professional accountability

Job description

University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust

Staff Nurse

Closing date is 05 January 2026

This new innovation is born out of a vision to create a sustainable future for the urological specialist nursing team. It intends to take an expert urological nurse from a novice. The successful candidate will rotate within all aspects of urological nursing, embracing this rich learning opportunity, remaining responsible for the assessment of patient needs, development of programmes of care, and implementation and evaluation. To provide a high standard of clinical nursing within the ward/department, manage a group of patients, take charge of the ward department when rostered and assessed as competent, assume leadership and supervision responsibilities, act as a role model to students and Clinical Support Workers, and present a positive, professional image of the organisation and nursing team.

Complimentary to introductory responsibilities, the programme is designed so that a novice staff nurse can build on key nursing skills by following the foundations of urological specialist nursing and become an expert. The aim is to harness talent, build confidence and clinical capability aligned with academic achievements that will future‑proof advanced urological nursing.

Job Responsibilities

• Communicate with patients and their relatives using a range of methods in a caring, sensitive, and empathetic manner.
• Share sensitive information about patients with the health‑care team and, with patient consent, with relatives.
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills when dealing with difficult situations.
• Provide clear and concise patient handover to other team members.
• Escalate concerns in a patient's condition to senior nursing team members and medical staff.
• Initiate referrals to other members of the health‑care team.
• Report ward and departmental affairs to the LUN/ACP Matron and Sister/Charge Nurse, and participate in meetings.
• Ensure that patients' concerns are addressed through liaison with senior staff.
• Remain connected and a valued member of the urological specialist nursing team.
• Communicate in a professional manner with all patients and visitors to the ward/departments.
• Promote equality and diversity, ensuring that individual needs of patients and families are recognised.
• Take personal responsibility for ensuring accurate communication relating to patient discharge.
• Participate in annual appraisals, with the first taking place within the first six months from appointment.

About us

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust are one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites – Royal Stoke in Stoke‑on‑Trent and County Hospital in Stafford – we serve around three million people and are highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role. UHNM offers a wide range of development packages to ensure everyone has the opportunity to reach their true potential, fostering a culture of inclusion and equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent.

We are committed to diversity and inclusion, and we ask all employees to commit to values that unite us as a Trust.

Investing in, supporting and developing staff directly impacts the quality of care we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population we serve.

Person Specification

• Trust IT skills
• Urological experience
• Team player
• Understanding of professional accountability

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975; a Disclosure and Barring Service check will be required.

University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust