Staff Nurse - Band 5

United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Lincoln; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

Flexible working

On-site parking

Job summary

United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a Staff Nurse (Band 5) to provide high‑quality nursing care across our Lincolnshire sites. The post involves organising clinics, preparing notes, and supporting professional development within a multidisciplinary team.

The role requires a degree in adult nursing and current NMC registration. We offer flexible working patterns, NHS pension, and opportunities for professional growth within ULHT.

Qualifications

• Qualification to degree level in an adult nursing field.
• Professional NMC registration (part 1).
• Willingness to work towards disease specific modules.
• Ability to travel across the Trust and adapt to a flexible working pattern.

Responsibilities

• To organise, prepare and assist with specialist clinics e.g., wound review clinic, Skin cancer lists and casualty.
• Prepare medical and orthodontic notes for clinics using computerised systems (X-rays, MRI, CT).
• Take on responsibility for personal development and support the development of others by maintaining specialist knowledge.

Skills

Autonomous practice

Decision making

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in adult nursing

NMC registration (Part 1)

Job description

Employer United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Lincoln County Hospital Town LINCOLN Salary £32,073 - £39,043 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 28/09/2026 23:59

Staff Nurse - Band 5

NHS AfC: Band 5

We recognise that outstanding care can only be delivered through our people. We want to attract people who can help us deliver our vision. We want in return to help people achieve what they wish in their careers in the NHS at ULTH.

We are always keen to welcome highly skilled, committed and compassionate individuals to our hospitals – people who put patients at the heart of everything they do and are ready to help us achieve our vision.

Our Group values guide everything we do. They are:

• Compassionate - We care about people - Compassionate is the act of showing empathy, kindness, and respect to others, recognising their individual needs and circumstances. It involves listening, understanding, and supporting others in a way that makes them feel valued, safe, and cared for.
• Collaborative - We work together as a team - Collaborative is working inclusively and respectfully with others to achieve shared goals. It involves open communication, valuing diverse perspectives, and building trust to create a supportive and effective team environment.
• Innovative - We strive to improve - Innovative is the process of exploring new ideas, approaches, and technologies to improve care, services, and working practices. It involves creativity, curiosity, and a willingness to take risks in a safe and supportive environment.

If you believe in them too, then you are ready to join the ULTH team.

We’ve taken great pride in building working environments where staff always feel valued, cared for and part of a team. Without doubt this is a challenging yet very rewarding job that is at the centre of health and care in Lincolnshire - making a positive difference to our patients.

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £710 million (22/23) and we employ nearly 8,600 people.

Our Group Board have recently agreed a new vision statement – “Caring and building a healthier future for all” – stating their ambition for our Trust and the wider group to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.

So,what is in it for you?

• Flexible working: Depending on the needs of your role, we will consider requests for flexible and/or part‑time working for whatever reason you should need it. We recognise flexible working will not look the same for everyone, because it depends on the nature of the role and the needs of the individual.

Types of flexibility could include:

• Part-time - less than 37.5 hours per week.
• Off-site/remote working - working from home or other sites for part or all the week.
• Compressed hours - usually full‑time hours but over fewer days or shifts.
• Staggered hours - having different start and finish times.
• Set shift patterns - to allow for predictability
• NHS Pension: A generous and flexible pension scheme with contributions from us as your employer fully protected against inflation and guaranteed by the government
• Annual Leave: Starting at 27 days a year, rising to 33 days after 10 years plus eight bank holidays (for staff covered by Agenda for Change) For Medical Workforce positions (Consultant and Specialty Doctor), the full‑time entitlement commences from 32 days per annum. For all other Medical Workforce positions, the full‑time entitlement commences from 27 days per annum.
• Bank working: The chance to work extra hours at enhanced rates and we will pay you weekly too, ideal if your income needs a quick boost.

In addition, there ismore.

• Family & Childcare: Including on‑site nurseries at Lincoln County Hospital and Pilgrim Hospital Boston, maternity, paternity, adoption & shared parental leave following a set period of employment.
• Health & Wellbeing: including counselling, mental health first aid, physiotherapy, eye tests.
• Learning & Development including Lincolnshire Talent Academy, leadership training, medical education, clinical education, Lincolnshire clinical research
• Financial support and benefits i
  cluding Cycle2Work, car lease scheme, home electronics. Free on‑site parking and free tea and coffee and the ability to save and borrow through your salary.
• Rewards & Recognition including staff awards, long service awards, retirement awards, examples of excellence and staff lottery.

Enjoy a better quality of life in one of the UK’s most welcoming counties. Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire welcomes everyone. Discover a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.

Job overview

To organise, prepare and assist with specialist clinics e.g., wound review clinic, Skin cancer lists and casualty.

Prepare medical and orthodontic notes for clinics including obtaining investigation results from computerised systems - Xrays MRI and CT scans.

Obtaining Orthodontic appliances from the laboratory.

Take on responsibility for personal development and support the development and supervision of others by developing and maintaining specialist knowledge.
Conduct oneself in a professional manner and be a role model to less experienced and new staff at all times

Work proactively to ensure that every patient attendance meets the patient’s expectations and needs with timely undertaking of procedure and effective communication with relatives, patients and carers.

Main duties of the job

This post is an exciting opportunity for a Registered Nurse to join a multidisciplinary team and support the speciality to ensure the provision of a high standard of patient care. This is a great opportunity for you to develop and expand your skills as a Registered Nurse to the next level.
Clinics you will assist in our Oral surgery, Skin procedures under local anaesthetic, IV sedation and minor operations, Orthodontics and specialised clinics such as Orthognathic.
You will need to be a highly motivated and confident member of the team. Our patients will expect and will receive the highest standards of professional care by all members of the team.
The hours required are:
Weekdays 08:30 - 17:00
Weekends 08:30 - approx 12:30

Working for our organisation

Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24‑hour major accident and emergency service.

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Pilgrim Hospital is situated in beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24‑hour major accident and emergency service.

Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.

This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.

The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical

Take responsibility for the assessing, planning, delivery and evaluation of nursing care Support colleagues in care provision

Provide clinical expertise with up to date knowledge within the speciality

To be aware of budgetary implications when planning care To deliver Nurse led assessment

Communication

To ensure effective communication between members of the multi-disciplinary team

To ensure patients and relatives are kept informed as appropriate

To liaise with other disciplines within the trust to ensure smooth and safe running of the department

To ensure effective communication with GP’s and other disciplines in primary care

Professional

To work within the professional scope of the Nursing and Midwifery Council adhering to the Code of Professional Conduct

To work within the United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust policies

Person specification

Qualifications

• Qualification to degree level in an adult nursing field.
• Professional NMC registration (part 1)
• Willingness to work towards disease specific modules
• Specific CPD modules relevant to specific field.
• Ability to provide holistic care to patients in a variety of settings through the nursing process: Assess, Plan, implement, review
• Nursing competencies which may include, but are not exclusive to, TV, PEOL, continence Care, holistic care, medication administration
• Extended clinical competencies that are transferrable to a community/acute setting

Knowledge

• Community/acute pathways of care
• Standards of proficiencies for registered nurse

Specific attributes/specific requirements

• Ability to travel across the Trust and adapt to a flexible working pattern to work to meet the needs of the service
• Flexible approach to meet service need

Personal Qualities

• Be an advocate and role more of the group values

Experience

• Decision making, prioritisation and delegation skills
• Autonomous practice in Nursing
• Nursing in an acute/community experience

ULTH recognises that everyone is different, and values the unique contribution that individual experiences, knowledge and skills make in delivering quality healthcare and becoming a model employer. We are committed to transforming our organisational culture by actively committing to implementing the Trust Single Equality Scheme, and other policies, such as the Dignity in Care policy and the Dignity at Work policy. We will continue to promote equality and challenge discrimination in all service provision, recognising and meeting the needs of the diverse communities we serve. We will strive to provide an environment in which people want to work and to be a model employer leading in good employment practice.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, ULTH reserves the right to close this advert prior to the closing date.

All new employees will be subject to a charge for the DBS check that is required for the post. The Disclosure & Barring Service application form (formerly CRB) will be provided by ULTH and the fee will be deducted from your salary over a 3 month period.

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Please note, for applicants with previous NHS service: If successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.