Staff Nurse - Ward 5A
Posted 8 days 6 hours ago by NHS
Closing date: 13 February 2026
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a staff nurse to join our Hyper Acute Stroke Unit here in 5C.
Ward 5C is a 32 bed ward located on the 5th floor of the main Whiston Hospital site.
The ward is divided into two halves: one 16 bed half is the Hyper Acute Stroke Unit (HASU), where patients are cared for in the first 72 hours following a stroke. It has a higher nursing and medical staffing ratio to enable close observation and monitoring of patients in their acute phase. The other 16 bed half is the HASU Step Down.
Main duties of the job- Assess, plan, develop and implement programmes of care to patients, providing advice in a variety of settings.
- Carry out nursing procedures in line with current NMC standards of proficiency.
- Ensure the health, wellbeing and independence of patients and service users across healthcare settings, maintaining associated records, ensuring all patients receive safe and effective care at all times.
- Supervise junior staff and all learners.
- Understand and demonstrate the Trust values at all times.
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9,000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Our Services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
- Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
- Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
- National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
- Provides and receives complex information, communicating sensitively and confidentially information relating to patients/clients (for example, care plan discussions with patients).
- Communicates in a compassionate and empathetic manner, using persuasion and reassurance.
- Ability to recognise barriers to communication, and ability to modify communication style as and when required.
- Ability to effectively communicate whilst providing training to students.
- Demonstrate effective communications skills with the wider MDT team.
- To be responsible for planning and organising a defined caseload of patients on a continuing basis.
- To assess, plan, implement/deliver and evaluate patient care for a defined caseload and recognise signs of deterioration/change and respond according to protocol.
- Maintain appropriate levels of training for clinical skills as needed within scope of practice.
- To maintain safe custody of drugs, ensuring that checking, witnessing and administration procedures are compatible with statutory and trust requirements.
- In the absence of Sister/Charge Nurse effectively respond to complaints/concerns and elevate as required.
- To ensure clinical incident/near misses are managed and reported and escalated in a timely manner.
- To be part of the multidisciplinary team decision-making, acting when required as the patients advocate in order to support the patients pathway.
- Work within the organisational policy, standard operating procedures and guidelines.
- To undertake risk assessments and implement risk reducing measures. To report and elevate to the Line Manager any deficiencies in the arrangements for minimising risk.
- Ensure that privacy, dignity and safety of individuals is maintained at all times.
- To actively participate in the effective and efficient use of the ward/departmental resources and equipment, including stock management and care and maintenance of equipment.
- Handles patients valuable, ensuring safe storage and transportation.
- Sign off agency timesheets in order to verify and record the hours worked.
- Liaise with the Roster Coordinator to ensure your personal roster is balanced within the roster period.
- To order and receive goods in accordance with the Trusts financial framework.
- To deputise in the absence of the Sister/Charge Nurse.
- To manage own time and that of others, through delegations to ensure high quality service delivery.
- To act as assessor/supervisor for junior staff and students.
- To participate in the setting of yearly personal and professional objectives for self.
- Support the department's appraisal process for junior staff, by providing feedback.
- To be flexible in the delivery of safe staffing across the Trust and participate in redeployment requirements within scope of practice.
- To contribute to the collection of data for research and audit purposes.
- To identify audit topics relevant to the ward/department.
- To critically evaluate research before applying to clinical practice in order to enhance patient care.
- To identify areas for self development, areas of interest and training requirements within individual personal performance planning and development review.
- To maintain a professional portfolio and reflective diary for developmental purposes and revalidation.
- Support the rest of the team by recognising own and promoting self help and wellbeing.
- Develop a culture of learning and innovation, developing high quality learning environments.
- Adopt a reflective approach to own practice with a view to continually improve.
- 1st Level Registered Nurse (degree/diploma)
- Current NMC Registration
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Able to demonstrate knowledge of NMC professional standards for practice contained within the code.
- Experience of working in a clinical environment.
- Understand requirements for NMC professional Revalidation.
- Experience of working within a multi disciplinary team.
- An understanding of national, regional and local NHS issues.
- Experience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive information.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to network and build relationships at all levels.
- Effectively prioritises and co ordinates own workload.
- Ability to de escalate complex situations.
- Ability to communicate effectively (written, verbal and non verbal communication) with patients/relatives and carers and all members of the multi disciplinary team.
- Awareness of the need for confidentiality at all times.
- Computer literacy e.g. experience of electronic patient record.
- Frequent moderate effort for several short periods of time such as manual handling of patients and equipment.
- Frequent concentration required for drug calculation and administration.
- Dealing with frequent interruptions and competing demands.
- Ability to work within highly distressing or emotional circumstances e.g. end of life care.
- Ability to communicate distressing information.
- Ability to communicate in a challenging environment.
- Able to carry out direct clinical care as required on ward or department.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
£31,049 to £37,796 a year Per Annum, Pro Rata