Staff Nurse; Band 5 - Urgent Care

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

The closing date is 26 February 2026

Are you interested in emergency medicine including minor injury/illness?

Want to work with a team who continually strive to be the best, putting patients at the heart of everything we do?

The Emergency SDEC team are looking for experienced registered nurses to join our team.

We are looking for positive, resilient, compassionate and enthusiastic nurses who have a thirst for learning and developing their skills and knowledge within minor skills. We will support you to develop skills such as triage, suturing and plastering.

You will work closely with Emergency Nurse Practitioners to ensure that patients pathway through both the Emergency Care Centre and Urgent Treatment Centre Gosport is safe, efficient and within a timely manner.

You must have the ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines, have good written and verbal communication skills, and enjoy working in constantly and rapidly changing environments. It is essential that you are able to work across both units.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and Disability, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements.

We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veterans status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.

You will be required to:

• Ensuring high quality nursing care is coordinated and delivered using a family focused model of practice.
• Work as part of a cohesive multidisciplinary team ensuring patient care is delivered smoothly and efficiently.
• The expectations within this job description will be achieved through hands‑on clinical practice, education and training and research.

For a full list of roles and responsibilities, please see the attached job description.

• Current RN +/- RN, registration with NMC and any other relevant post registration qualifications
• BSc Degree in relevant field

• Managing resources and contributing to departmental budget
• Evidence of developing policy, guidelines and managing resources
• An awareness of research and evidence based practice relevant to clinical area
• Computer literate, knowledge of patient administration system

• Clinically competent at Band 5 with minimum of 6 months experience.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Teaching and mentoring skills
• Ability to prioritise workload, instruct and direct others
• Organisational skills and able to work as part of a team
• Able to support development of others
• Articulate and knowledgeable of current professional nursing issues
• Health promotion
• Ability to adapt to change within working situation
• Intravenous Therapy Skills
• Competent in streaming, plastering and suturing.

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.

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust