Staff Nurse Ward 39 Cardiothoracic

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals Nhs Foundation Trust; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 5 Nurse to join a supportive team at Blackpool. You will provide patient care, supervise daily living activities, and promote safe discharge through collaboration with AHPs, ensuring up-to-date practice and adherence to NMC requirements.

You'll be expected to contribute to teaching and assessments, partake in audits, and maintain accurate records within Trust systems.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with 1st or 2nd level NMC registration.
• Willing to undertake teaching and assessing qualification.
• Willingness to undertake conversion to Part 1 of the NMC register.
• Diploma or willingness to undertake Diploma.
• Teaching and assessing qualification desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provide patient care and ensure activities of daily living are maintained with safe, appropriate care.
• Coordinate with AHPs to ensure timely, appropriate patient care and discharge.
• Ensure medications are administered at prescribed times.
• Participate in research and audit activities.
• Keep knowledge up to date and recorded in the Trust system.

Skills

Prioritisation

Leadership

Assertiveness

Time management

IT skills

Decision making

Communication

Problem solving

Lateral thinking

Basic Life Support

Education

NMC registered nurse

Teaching qualification

Part 1 conversion readiness

Diploma in Nursing

Teaching and assessing qualification desirable

Job description

Job summary

To work within a team ensuring all patients receive timely and appropriate care, ensuring utilisation of Allied Health Professionals support and guidance to promote a safe and timely discharge. Maintain current knowledge to ensure compliance with NMC requirements.

Main duties of the job

• Providing patient care and ensuring all activities of daily living are maintained whilst ensuring the patient receives safe and appropriate care.
• Linking with all AHP's ensuring the patient receives timely and appropriate.
• Ensuring the patient receives their prescribed medications at the correct time.
• Participating in a research and audit completion.
• Ensuring all knowledge is recorded and up to date via the Trust system.

About us

• Working with all AHP's ensuring patient care is provided safely and timely.
• Participating in all research and audit for the Trust.
• Participating in all Trust initiatives.

Salary

£32,073 to £39,043 a year pro rata

Band

Band 5 (Agenda for Change)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Location

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals, Whinney Heys Road, Blackpool, FY3 8NR

Essential qualifications

• Registered Nurse (1st or 2nd Level)
• Willingness to undertake teaching and assessing qualification
• Willingness to undertake conversion course to Part 1 of the NMC register
• Diploma/willingness to undertake Diploma
• Teaching and assessing qualification

Desirable qualifications

• Post Registration qualification*

Essential experience

• Ability to teach peers within clinical area
• Evidence of continuous professional development
• Experience of team and ward management*

Essential skills and attributes

• Ability to establish priorities
• Team Player and Team Leadership qualities
• Assertiveness
• Good time management
• Basic I.T. skills
• Decision maker
• Communicate at all levels
• Problem solver
• Lateral thinker
• Basic Life Support

Desirable skills

• Venepuncture and Cannulation skills

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Closing date

28 October 2026