Job requirements
Essential
5 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Knowledge
Ability to demonstrate fundamental nursing knowledge and practice skills
- Knowledge
NMC standards and limitations of professional practice
- Experience
Experience of caring for patients with acute and long term conditions
- Experience
Experience of delegating workload, motivating a team and monitoring patient progress
- Qualifications
NMC Registered Nurse
Desirable
Not listed in the available specification.
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen to join our Surgical Assessment Unit (SAU)
We are seeking a band 5 Staff Nurse to join our friendly, highly motivated team.
The Surgical Admissions Unit is a 15-bedded fast paced unit in which patients present with a wide variety of emergency surgical conditions, giving rise to a diverse range of development and learning opportunities. The unit also includes an Ambulatory Care for Surgery pathway, which is led by two Advanced Nurse Practitioners.
Patients are referred under the care of General Surgical, Maxillofacial or Gynaecological specialities, as well as from GP surgeries, other hospitals, our outpatient clinics and our emergency department
Patients receive rapid nurse-led assessment and are stabilised before individual management plans are prepared and delivered to ensure each patient receives the specialist surgical care they need. Patients can be either treated and discharged from SAU or admitted to one of our inpatient wards
The unit offers excellent opportunities for developing experience and knowledge within the acute surgical environment and there are plenty of opportunities to use clinical judgement and improve nursing skills, including admitting, assessing and treating acutely unwell patients
Post-holders will be expected to work a variety of shift patterns including night duty
This role requires an active UK NMC Registration
Base Location: Poole Hospital
Interview date: 3rd November
Main duties of the job
Applicants must have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and have the ability to treat all patients, relatives and other members of staff with compassion, dignity and respect.
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
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 - SAU with University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust in Poole, England. It is listed as a Band 5 Staff nurse role. The advertised salary is £32,073 - £39,043 pa/pro rata. The contract type is Fixed term: 9 months (Maternity Leave). The application deadline is 19 Oct 2026.
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