Staff Nurse - A&E | The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust

Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn; King's Lynn and West Norfolk; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in King's Lynn is looking for enthusiastic Registered Nurses with Emergency Department experience to join their team. This role involves compassionate patient care and supporting the development of emergency services. The organization emphasizes training and continuous improvement, aiming for a positive community atmosphere. The position is for a fixed term maternity leave cover, requiring full NMC registration in the UK.

Benefits

Comprehensive training and education support

Community atmosphere and team spirit

Qualifications

• Must have Emergency Department experience worked on a regular basis.
• Registered Nurses must hold full NMC registration in the UK.

Responsibilities

• Provide compassionate care to patients and their families.
• Contribute to developing emergency service pathways.
• Support training and education for healthcare professionals.

Skills

Emergency Department experience

Compassionate communication

Education

Valid NMC registration in the UK

Job description

Overview

The Urgent Emergency Care (UEC) team are looking for talented people to join the team in the Emergency Department. There is a fixed term maternity leave cover vacancy.

If you are dynamic, forward thinking, enjoy a challenge and place the patient at the heart of everything you do, we would love to hear from you. If you'd like a chat about the roles, we would love that too. If you are driven to succeed, please apply.

This vacancy is for Registered Nurses with full NMC registration in the UK. If you are an internationally trained nurse that has not passed their OSCE (objective structured clinical examination) you will not be considered for this role and will be automatically rejected, so please do not apply.

Please note that online interviews will not be available for this vacancy. All shortlisted candidates will be required to attend an in-person interview.

About The Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, King’s Lynn

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, King’s Lynn is a friendly and welcoming general hospital providing emergency care for West and North Norfolk along with parts of Breckland, Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire. West Norfolk offers an unsurpassed quality of life outside work. It’s a superb area for families with reasonable house prices, good education facilities and a low crime rate.

Our emergency department additionally has a clinical decision unit and a 24 hour stay area and we have a dedicated paediatric care area. We have exciting innovative developments in our emergency service, and we support training and education for our multi-professional workforce.

What we are looking for

We are looking for enthusiastic registered adult nurses and paramedics who enjoy working in an ever evolving fast paced environment to join our team. We support training and education and encourage those with interest or experience in emergency care to apply.

Applicants must have Emergency Department experience worked on a regular basis.

We expect our Healthcare Professionals to be compassionate and communicative to our patients and their families in the challenges of the emergency setting, and to contribute to developing our service and emergency care pathways.

If this opportunity appeals to you we would love to hear from you!

Why join us

There’s never been a more exciting time to join TeamQEH. We’re working on a once in a generation opportunity to build a new state-of-the-art hospital to open in 2030 and we are also carrying out one of the biggest pieces of digital transformation work we’ve ever undertaken. Our new electronic patient record (EPR) will replace paper-based patient records from 2026 and will lead to better, safer, joined-up care at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and beyond.

At The QEH we provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, North Cambs and South Lincs. We are an ambitious organisation that upholds our values of kindness, wellness and fairness. We strive for continuous quality improvement, recently demonstrated in our 2024 CQC maternity inspection rating our services as ‘Good’, and we are proud to be a place to learn and grow through recognised learning and apprenticeships.

We recognise and reward our 4,000 staff and volunteers, priding ourselves on a community atmosphere and positive team spirit. We have approx. 530 beds across 33 wards and have newly built education and training facilities, a range of modern award-winning centres alongside a talented team of people ready to give you a warm welcome. We love working here and think you will too.

How to apply / Additional information

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information about this role.

This advert closes on Friday 19 Sep 2025.