Staff Nurse - Critical Care

University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 02 March 2026

Are you a motivated and enthusiastic staff nurse looking for your next challenge?

This is an incredibly exciting time in UHD with an expansion of Critical Care services across our site underway, including the building of a new 30 bedded critical care unit which will provide care in specialities such as trauma, surgical (including major vascular and maxillo-facial), medical, paediatrics and cardiology.

We are seeking nurses with a passion for providing excellent patient care with a particular interest in critical care to join our dynamic and rapidly expanding team.

You will be invited to work with the integrated multidisciplinary team and in return we offer a commitment to your professional development through a bespoke in-house critical care training programme and rotational opportunities to research and other high care areas.

This role offers the successful candidate an incredible opportunity for career development and a chance to make a positive impact on the lives of our patients, their families and on the wider service we provide.

Acute care experience is desirable as well as a goal of providing excellent nursing care, with an enthusiasm to learn being essential. We work 12 hour shifts, day and night, 365 days of the year.

This role requires an active UK NMC Registration

Base

Location:

Royal Bournemouth Hospital BEACH Building

Interview Date: 9th March 2026

Please note this role requires NMC Registration if you do not hold this registration/qualification you will not be shortlisted.

Telephone /5660 and ask to speak to Matron / Sister or Charge Nurse.

Planned informal visits are encouraged.

UHD are investing, developing and transforming Trust services in line with the New Hospital Programme. As part of this, some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or permanently. Recruiting Managers will be happy to answer any service-specific questions at interview.

If a role or service relocates as part of a planned move, excess mileage will not be reimbursed. Travel from home to the new work base will be classed as a normal commute. Any other changes will be managed under Trust or national terms and conditions.

UHD has active networks including Women's, BAME, Pride, EU, Pro Ability, and Armed Forces. We support Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant interview schemes.

AI tools may be used, but applications must honestly reflect your own skills and experience. Integrity is key to our recruitment process.

• RGN 1st
• Experience with in speciality

• Able to communicate with staff members, patients and relatives.

• Experience of managing acutely ill patients in a ward setting
• Post Registration ITU experience
• Able to operate Critical infusions
• Management experience within acute ward setting at Band 5 grade Staff nurse
• Management experience in HDU

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.

University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust