Staff Nurse (CHDU)

Staff Nurse (CHDU)

The closing date is 21 December 2025

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.

Opportunities have arisen for experienced band 5 nurses to work in a friendly and supportive team within Cardiac High Dependency Unit (CHDU). Our 20 bed CHDU caters for mixed specialty adult patients, including cardiac surgery, congenital heart disease, and cardiology patients requiring specialist care. You will join a dedicated CHDU team, part of a care group that has a local, national and international reputation for delivering expert cardiothoracic care. Clinical expertise is at the forefront of ensuring patients have the best outcomes and receive evidence based care.

The CHDU leads adult cardiac patient care in the following areas:

• Complex electrophysiological treatments
• Heart failure
• Cardiac surgery

The cardiothoracic care group provides regional tertiary services and meets the local needs of Southampton, Eastleigh and the New Forest, serving a population of approximately two million people.

About us

University Hospital Southampton is one of England's largest acute teaching Trusts, offering a wide range of learning and development opportunities to support your career aspirations. We champion an anti racist, anti discriminatory environment where everyone feels valued, safe and empowered to make a meaningful impact.

Job responsibilities

In this post you will:

• Work effectively in a challenging environment.
• Take an enthusiastic, self directed approach to learning.
• Collaborate within a multidisciplinary team.
• Develop competency in critical care therapies, short term ventilation, non invasive ventilation, inotropes and intra aortic balloon pump therapy.

You will receive supernumerary induction, bedside coaching and a competency based programme to support career progression, alongside ongoing development and training from our dedicated education and senior nursing team.

Qualifications, knowledge and experience

• Qualified Nurse (Degree/Diploma)
• Registered nurse on the appropriate part of the register
• Knowledge of current issues within the acute health service
• Understanding of personal accountability
• Knowledge of own role within the team
• Evidence of teaching and supporting learners in practice as a practice supervisor
• Awareness of evidence based practice
• Awareness of responsibilities for infection control management
• Evidence of ongoing personal development
• Able to use initiative
• Evidence of recent study
• Previous experience/qualification in a relevant specialty
• Teaching experience

Trust Values

• Working Together
• Always Improving

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post requires a Disclosure and Barring Service check under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975.

University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust

£31,049 to £37,796 a year (pro rata)