# Staff Nurse - NOFU Orthopaedics

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Archived / closed
- **Employer:** Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Royal Liverpool University Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Staff nurse
- **Grade:** Band 5
- **Salary:** £32,073 - £39,043 per annum
- **Contract type:** 12 months (Days and Nights. 3 fixed term jobs, one to start october 2026, one to start decemeber 2026 and one to start feb 2027)
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (days and nights)
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-28T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-14T11:40:04.755Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Merseyside/Liverpool/Liverpool_University_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Orthopaedics/Orthopaedics-v8314708
- **Employer website:** https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Staff Nurse - Trauma & Orthopaedics

Band 5

Permanent

- Hours per week NIGHTS AND DAYS

MUST HAVE ORTHOPAEDIC EXPERIENCE - ESSENTIAL

Admission and discharge of patients both short and long stay patients

Pre and post operative care

Working closely with MDT team

Supporting students nurses in the workplace.

### Main duties of the job

Clinical Responsibilities

- Participate in maintaining a safe, comfortable and therapeutic environment for all patients and carers and maintain agreed standards of nursing care.
- Determines nursing priorities and plans patient care. Informs the nurse in charge when changes in circumstances may affect patient care.
- Maintain nursing records in accordance with the NMC and Trust Guidelines.
- Maintain and improve quality of patient care through contribution to the development of Essence of Care and clinical benchmarking within the unit
- Ensure due regard is given to customs, values and spiritual beliefs of patients.
- Providing information and support to patients/carers, and ensuring all those involved in the

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Applicants must possess excellent communication skills, have a flexible working approach and a willingness to work as part of a forward thinking team, as well as a strong commitment to ensuring a positive hospital experience for patients and their relatives/carers

### 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

### Other

**Essential**

- Supportive of colleagues
- Ability to work in changing environments
- Committed to high standards of patient care
- Exemplary personal standards of conduct and behaviour
- Maintain both personal and professional development
- Willingness to be flexible and adaptable

### Skills

**Essential**

- Ability to organise workload and delegate tasks appropriately
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Ability to support less experienced staff
- Ability to problem solve
- Good written and verbal communication skills

**Desirable**

- Basic IT skills, including e-mail and word processing

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Sound clinical nursing knowledge and a good understanding of nursing issues and clinical governance
- Demonstrates awareness of own limitations

### Experience

**Essential**

- Recent clinical nursing experience as a student or as a registered nurse

**Desirable**

- Experience within relevant clinical setting
- Evidence of maintaining a clinical learning environment.
- Evidence of working with learners

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Registered Nurse, current NMC registration
- BSc in Nursing (Diploma in Nursing as a minimum)

**Desirable**

- Practice Assessor/Practice Supervisor Training
- Post registration qualification in relevant specialty

## Documents

- [job description (pdf, 166.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10680157)
- [oh risk id form (pdf, 333.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10635612)
- [recruitment documents (pdf, 383.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10635613)
- [life at luhft benefits (pdf, 333.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2664)

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