Registered Nurse - Castle View - Maternity Cover

Registered Nurse
- Castle View
- Maternity Cover Job :

-UHMB

NHS AfC:
Band 5, Fixed‑Term 6 months (Long days/Nights/Short shifts). Full time, 37.5 hours per week. Salary £32,073‑£39,043 pa.

Site:
Royal Lancaster Infirmary, Lancaster.

Closing 30/07/2026 23:59.

University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust.

We are looking to recruit enthusiastic and committed Registered Nurses to join our team on Castle View at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary. Castle View comprises of two wards, East and West, busy medical wards with specialities in rehabilitation/therapy, general nursing, complex discharge planning and multi‑disciplinary team working.

• Actively assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care with the multidisciplinary team, incorporating the whole of the patient’s pathway.
• Awareness of the structure and organisation of the NHS and regulatory bodies’ code of practice, and incorporate this into nursing practice.
• Participate in clinical governance by auditing the effectiveness of practice and incorporating findings.
• Act as mentor or assessor in supervising and teaching junior and unregistered staff.

• 1st level Registered Nurse (UK NMC).
• Willingness to undertake a teaching qualification, mentoring/assessing qualification, NVQ Assessors Award.
• Post‑registration clinical course appropriate to area.

• Working within a multidisciplinary team.
• Evidence of recent professional development.
• Experience of establishing effective communication.
• Previous experience within designated area.
• Experience of mentoring and assessing junior staff.
• Experience as shift team leader.

• Demonstrable or willingness to undertake specific clinical skills appropriate to speciality.
• Ability to respond rapidly to emergency situations.
• Ability to work as part of the multi‑disciplinary team.
• Ability to prioritise own workload and that of others.
• Knowledge of clinical governance.
• Understanding of current NHS issues.
• Up‑to‑date knowledge of professional issues.
• Effective teaching or mentoring skills.
• IT skills – use of email, word processing, internet searching.

The Trust promotes flexible working opportunities wherever possible to enable staff to balance their work and home life.

We are committed to Equal Opportunities and aim to be Effortlessly Inclusive.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and disclosure to the Disclosure and Barring Service. The post will be subject to a 6‑month probationary period.

Please note that shortlisted applicants will be contacted by email.

The Trust does not offer interview expenses to shortlisted candidates unless indicated in the advert.