Staff Nurse - Acute Neurology

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Main area Neurology Grade Band 5 Contract Fixed term: 8 months (Maternity leave cover until 07/06/2027) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job
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Site Royal Preston Hospital Town Preston Salary £32,073 - £39,043 per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 31/08/2026 23:59

Are you looking for a new career opportunity that will both challenge and reward you at the same time? We have vacancies for Experienced or Newly qualified Band 5 Staff Nurses to develop as a nurse in neurology medicine.

This position would be suited to an individual looking to gain experience in the acute setting. Eager to learn new skills in a thriving and supportive workplace, ensuring high quality care is given to our patient group while working with a dedicated team of staff who are devoted to improve the quality of care and enhance patient’s experience.

We are seeking highly motivated, flexible individuals with strong interpersonal skills that will look forward to the challenges of nursing patients who have both acute and chronic neurological conditions. Ideally the post holder will have experience of working in an acute hospital setting and be able to demonstrate clinical knowledge in caring for acutely unwell patients. In return bespoke training opportunities will be tailored to your personal needs to enable your development into this challenging role.

You will be responsible for planning, delivering and evaluating the personalised health and wellbeing care needs of patients, in line with the Trust’s Values & Nursing & Midwifery Professional Framework goals example: personal hygiene and comfort, vital signs and NEWS, early recognition and management of acutely ill patients, safe transportation, fluid balance monitoring, enteral feeding/ meeting nutritional needs, ECG, catheterisation, venepuncture, cannulation, blood transfusion, palliative care, care of PICC lines , admission and discharge, nasogastric tube insertion & care, care of IV infusion pumps, IVIG and cytotoxic infusions, psychological and spiritual support.

We have 10, 000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.

You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.