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Registered Nurse – Acute & Community Services
The closing date is 12 April 2026
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust is looking to recruit enthusiastic, compassionate, and self‑motivated Registered Nurses to join our teams across both our hospital sites and community services.
We have a range of opportunities available within Warwick Hospital, including our Medical and Surgical wards, as well as within our community teams, offering the chance to deliver high‑quality care in a variety of settings.
We can provide excellent opportunities for experienced nurses to join a high‑performing Trust, supporting you to further develop your skills, knowledge, and experience.
Our nurses are committed to delivering outstanding care and providing the very best experience for our patients. We pride ourselves on delivering care with compassion, professionalism, and enthusiasm, supporting patients to recover and maintain independence, whether that is facilitating a safe discharge from hospital or caring for them at home.
Main duties of the job
As a Band 5 Nurse, you will play a key role in providing high‑quality, compassionate care to patients, working closely with colleagues across both hospital and community teams. You will support patients throughout their care journey, helping to plan and deliver care that meets their individual needs and promotes dignity, comfort, and independence.
The role includes supporting patients and their families, administering medication, monitoring wellbeing, keeping clear and accurate records, and helping to ensure care is well coordinated. You will be supported by experienced staff while continuing to develop your own skills and confidence, and you will also help guide and support students, junior colleagues, and healthcare support workers as part of the wider team.
About us
SWFT is recognised as an “employer of choice” and is highly recommended as a place to work.
We are extremely proud to have recently been rated as “Outstanding” by CQC which shows the commitment and dedication from our workforce. Our employees are as important to us as the care we give to our patients. This is also demonstrated in the national NHS Staff Survey results which shows SWFT as one of the best employers for staff retention, morale, staff engagement and health and well‑being.
We can offer you:
- Ongoing learning and development, providing clearly structured career pathways in preparation towards specialist or managerial roles.
- Staff Benefits Platform – Lease Car, Electronics Scheme, Holiday Scheme, Childcare vouchers and many more.
- Health and well‑being services.
- Flexible working – All working patterns will be considered, roster patterns provided to support a healthy work/life balance.
- Mentorship and preceptor support.
- All NHS standardised benefits – annual leave, pension scheme.
Job responsibilities
Clinical
- Take clinical responsibility for patients within your allocated area of work.
- Continuously assess, plan, implement and evaluate treatment, using appropriate programmes/methods of care.
- Ensure a high delivery of quality care in accordance with Trust policies, procedures and guidelines; participate in activities to improve the quality, productivity and effectiveness of care in response to local and national policies and initiatives.
- Practice in accordance with the NMC Code of Professional conduct and scope of professional practice and maintain own NMC registration.
Communication
- Show empathy, understanding, and professionalism when communicating with patients, their carers and families. Identify individual needs and therefore utilise a range of agreed communication mediums.
- Communicate effectively and professionally with colleagues and all levels of staff.
- Maintain confidentiality at all times, as required by legislation and Trust policy.
Professionalism
- Ensure records and documentation are maintained, kept confidential, and meet professional NMC guidelines, appropriate Trust standards, and in line with the Data Protection Act.
- Act in a professional manner, and as a role model, at all times, leading by example to junior members of the team.
- Demonstrate a positive and enthusiastic approach to their work in order to maintain high morale and motivation within the department, promoting a professional and positive working environment.
- Maintain and develop own professional knowledge.
General
- Provide short‑term cover for colleagues during periods of leave.
- Ensure that all Trust standards are maintained and monitored to improve the quality of care to all whom come into contact with services provided by South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust.
- Every employee has a duty to take reasonable care of the health and safety of themself and of other persons who may be affected by his/her acts or omissions at work, and to co‑operate with the Trust to ensure statutory and Trust regulations are complied with.
- Participate in appraisals and personal reviews and work to achieve agreed set objectives.
- Participate in appropriate training and development activities.
- Participate in team, professional and personal development activities and promote commitment to continuous development and improvement.
- Ensure that all staff consciously review mistakes, complaints and incidents/near misses as well as successes to improve performance and the level of customer care.
- All employees will have an organisational and individual responsibility towards safeguarding vulnerable adults, young people, and children.
- Abide by Infection Prevention and Control policies relevant to their area of work, and undertake the necessary level of training. This will be appraised through the KSF review process or other relevant professional review process.
- Contribute to promoting and implementing the Trust’s Carbon Management policy, in line with team and organisational objectives.
Person Specification
Experience & Qualifications
- NMC Registration.
- Supporting information.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust.
£29,970 to £36,483 a year – Dependant on experience.
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