# Staff Nurse Continuing Stroke Care Unit

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Archived / closed
- **Employer:** Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Blackpool Victoria Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Staff nurse
- **Grade:** Band 5
- **Salary:** £32,073 - £39,043 pa pro rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-14T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-30T15:10:57.109Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Lancashire/Blackpool/Blackpool_Teaching_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Continuing_Stroke_Care_Unit/Continuing_Stroke_Care_Unit-v8237798
- **Employer website:** https://www.blackpoolteachinghospitals.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals are looking for highly motivated and committed Band 5 Staff Nurses to work on the Continuing Stroke care Unit .

To work as a registered nurse within a ward team within the Medicine & Emergency Care Division.

To prioritise and deliver nursing care and assessment as needed.

### Main duties of the job

We are highly focused upon your education, and we have specialist stroke training programmes available in-house as well as external courses. Commitment to undertake ongoing in-service training and development is essential. You should be motivated, keen to learn and ready to embrace change; our commitment to you is to provide the environment for this to happen.

We are focused on the care that our patients receive, and that their carers are given the opportunity to be involved in a range of patient educational activities. This will be supported by the Specialist stroke team.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please ensure that you have read the attached Job Description and Person Specification before submitting your application.

### Applicant requirements

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.

## Person Specification

### Personal

**Essential**

- Ability to establish priorities
- Assertiveness
- Decision maker
- Problem solver
- Lateral thinker
- The ability to communicate effectively in English

### Management

**Essential**

- Team Player & Team Leadership qualities
- Good time management
- Communicate at all levels

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Registered Nurse (1st or 2nd Level)
- Willingness to undertake teaching and assessing qualification
- Willingness to undertake study in relevant speciality subject

**Desirable**

- Post Registration qualification*

### Experience & Skills

**Essential**

- Ability to teach peers within clinical area
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Experience of team and ward management
- Basic I.T. skills
- Basic Life Support
- Ability to communicate effectively in English

**Desirable**

- Venepuncture & Cannulation skills

## Documents

- [job description (pdf, 272.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10657780)
- [person specification (pdf, 186.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10548340)
- [application guide booklet (pdf, 511.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2617)
- [standard terms of service (pdf, 306.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10548341)
- [guidance on pre-employment checks (pdf, 64.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=447)
- [statement on recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 43.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=448)

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