Staff Nurse - Spinnaker Ward

Job summary

Band 5 Registered Staff Nurse

Spinnaker Ward located at St Mary's Hospital Portsmouth is looking to recruit a compassionate and motivated Registered Nurse to join our dedicated inpatient team.

This is an excellent opportunity for a Registered Nurse to play a key role in delivering high-quality physical healthcare within an inpatient setting. You will be responsible for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating care, ensuring patients receive safe, effective and person-centred nursing interventions.

The role includes undertaking physical health assessments, monitoring patients' physical wellbeing, recognising and responding to clinical deterioration, administering medications, supporting the management of long-term conditions and working collaboratively with multidisciplinary colleagues to achieve positive patient outcomes.

We are looking for an enthusiastic nurse with strong clinical assessment skills, excellent communication abilities and a commitment to delivering outstanding patient care. Whether you are newly qualified or an experienced nurse seeking a new challenge, you will be supported through induction, supervision and ongoing professional development opportunities.

In return, we offer a supportive team environment, opportunities for career progression and the chance to make a real difference to patient care every day. If you are passionate about delivering high-quality physical healthcare and promoting patient safety, we would welcome your application.

Main duties of the job

Working within professional guidelines and accountability, the post-holder will have responsibility for the management of a defined community caseload (via Nursing, Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy interventions) for a group of GP Practices as part of the Integrated Care Team.

The post holder will have responsibility for managing co-ordinating and delegating work ensuring referrals are dealt with according to clinical need, holistic assessments and care plans are recorded in line with Trust and Professional record keeping standards and clinical care at all times meets acceptable standards of patient safety and quality outcomes.

The post holder will be required to work with a high degree of autonomy and professional accountability. A primary aim of the role is to prevent unnecessary admission of patients to an acute hospital and support timely discharge into the community. The post holder will also have a responsibility for re-enablement, rehabilitation, health protection and promotion programmes that improve and reduce inequalities.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Details

• Date posted: 16 September 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 5
• Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year Please note for part time hours the salary will be pro rata
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
• Reference number: 348-PSE-12539
• Job locations: St.Mary's Community Health Campus (Portsmouth), Milton Road, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO3 6AD, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

The post holder will be required to:

Act at all times with Compassion, to be Committed to delivering high quality Care, use effective Communication, be Competent and have Courage when needed.

Person-Centred Care .

Participate in the holistic assessment, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care and therapy for patients in the home, without direct supervision. This includes those with chronic disease, terminal illness who wish to die at home and complex care needs. Other settings include, residential homes, nursing homes, clinic's community centres and community hospitals.

Recognise and respond to the need for appropriate referral to other members of the Community Care Team or external organisations including appropriate escalation of potential Safeguarding risks.

Provide safe medicines management in your area, according to professional and organisational guidelines to ensure safety and efficacy.

Inform the Senior Community Nurse / Community Matron of any concerns with patients, relatives, visitors, or staff that may compromise patient care.

Develop and maintain constructive working relationships and liaise effectively with all members of the multidisciplinary team so that patients' needs are met.

Communicate effectively with colleagues, patients and carers so that information is shared in order to meet patients' needs.

Act as a role model in the promotion of person-centred practice, and challenge practice, which is not person-centred, so that a person-centred culture is maintained

Keep updated with relevant clinical developments and use knowledge to enhance standards of care.

Contribute to proactive interdisciplinary discharge and transfer planning for patients.

Practice and promote safe and effective skills in all aspects of clinical practice.

Practice and promote safe and effective record keeping in line with trust policies and professional standards.

Encourage a culture of patient wellness and co-production.

Ensure that patients with palliative care needs (and their families) have those needs met.

Demonstrate competence and confidence in clinical practice: this includes all clinical procedures that are relevant/specialist to the area.

Recognises own limitations in the provision of clinical care and urgency of patient's needs, referring to other healthcare professionals accordingly and is accountable for their own actions.

Support students in their learning and development.

Promote an open reflective learning culture.

Support new staff to received proper induction so that they understand acceptable practice and standards.

Actively support other teams in the department when needed so that those teams can deliver high standards of care.

Develop own professional skills and ensure these are shared with the team and wider Division.

Use reflective practice to analyse incidents and events and to develop high quality care.

Ensure practice follows evidence-based practice and national guidelines are followed.

Actively participates in the HIOW developments related to chronic disease management and targeted care, e.g. diabetes, coronary heart disease, stroke, dementia, falls within HIOW and across the boundaries of health and social care/primary and secondary care.

Initiates policy and practice changes as a result of incidents, audits and complaints.

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).