Staff Nurse - Lister Ward/Discharge Lounge

Job overview

Join our compassionate and dedicated team on Lister Ward!

We’re looking for enthusiastic and motivated Staff Nurses with a genuine passion for delivering high-quality, patient-centred care. Whether you’re newly qualified or an experienced nurse, this is a fantastic opportunity to develop your skills and make a real difference to the lives of our patients and their families.

Lister Ward is a 14-bedded unit specialising in elderly care medicine. Working as part of our skilled multidisciplinary team, you’ll support patients throughout their journey — from admission to discharge — ensuring a positive and compassionate experience at every stage.

In addition to the medical beds we run an 11 bedded discharge lounge, this promotes patient flow across the hospital.  Here you will learn to fine tune your discharge skills.

This role offers variety, challenge, and reward in equal measure. You’ll gain invaluable experience in clinical care and discharge planning, while developing strong leadership skills within a supportive and inclusive environment.

If you are caring, committed, and eager to grow your nursing career within a collaborative team, we’d love to hear from you.

These four Maternity posts will have the following end dates:

13th May 2027

31st July 2027

14th September 2027

17th September 2027

Please note: we are unable to support applications from candidates requiring an OSCE.

Main duties of the job

As a Staff Nurse you are required:

• To provide a high standard of individualised care to patients, whilst maintaining at all times their privacy and dignity
• To assess care needs, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care
• To contribute to supporting the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse
• To support the maintenance of high standards of cleanliness in their own clinical
• To communicate effectively and work in partnership with patients, their relatives/carers, nursing colleagues and members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure care is delivered in an accurate and efficient manner
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Establish and maintain good communication with the Ward/Department administrative, housekeeping and domestic staff
• To be responsible for ensuring all patients and their relatives/carers are kept fully informed of patients’ treatment/progress and discharge plans/after care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached a full job description setting out the details of the role and responsibilities.

We look forward to your application.

Please be aware that we reserve the right to close the vacancy early, should a high number of applications be received.