Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
5 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Experience of managing acutely ill patients in a ward setting
- Qualifications
RGN 1st
- Technical Skills Competencies
Able to operate Critical infusions
- Technical Skills Competencies
Management experience within acute ward setting at Band 5 grade Staff nurse
- Other requirements specific to the role
Able to communicate with staff members, patients and relatives.
Desirable
3 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Post Registration ITU experience
- Qualifications
Experience within speciality
- Technical Skills Competencies
Management experience in HDU
Job overview
Are you a motivated and enthusiastic staff nurse looking for your next challenge?
This is an incredibly exciting time in UHD with an expansion of Critical Care services across our site is now underway, including the building of a new 30 bedded critical care unit which will provide care in specialities such as trauma, surgical (including major vascular and maxillo-facial), medical, paediatrics and cardiology.
We are seeking nurses with a passion for providing excellent patient care with a particular interest in critical care to join our dynamic and rapidly expanding team.
You will be invited to work with the integrated multidisciplinary team and in return we offer a commitment to your professional development through a bespoke in-house critical care training programme and rotational opportunities to research and other high care areas.
This role offers the successful candidate an incredible opportunity for career development and a chance to make a positive impact on the lives of our patients, their families and on the wider service we provide.
Acute care experience is desirable as well as a goal of providing excellent nursing care, with an enthusiasm to learn being essential. We work 12 hour shifts, day and night, 365 days of the year.
This role requires an active UK NMC Registration
Base Location: UHD - Royal Bournemouth Hospital BEACH Building with cross site working to Poole Critical Care until phase 3 move in complete.
Interview: 23rd September
Main duties of the job
Please note this role requires NMC Registration if you do not hold this registration/qualification you will not be shortlisted .
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
Additional contact details
Telephone 0300 019 5423/5660 and ask to speak to Matron / Sister or Charge Nurse.
Planned informal visits are encouraged.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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.
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This advert is for Staff Nurse - Critical Care with University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust in Bournemouth, England. It is listed as a Band 5 Staff nurse role. The advertised salary is £32,073 - £39,043 per annum. The contract type is Fixed term: 9 months (Secondment). The application deadline is 14 Sep 2026.
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