Band 5 Staff Nurse

Staff Nurse - Woodlands Hospice

Band 5

Main area

Palliative Care

Grade

Band 5

Contract

10 months (Please ensure that your current line manager is willing to support you going on a secondment before applying.)

Hours

Part time - 34.5 hours per week (Post holder will be required to work days and nights.)

Job ref

287-AMED-347-25-A

Department name

LUH - 1 General Staffing (AFC posts)

Site

Woodlands Hospice

Town

Liverpool

Salary

£31,049 - £37,796 per annum

Salary period

Yearly

Closing

24/03/2026 23:59

Job Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 Staff Nurse to join Woodlands Hospice, based on the Aintree University Hospital site.

We are looking for a compassionate and motivated nurse to join our dedicated Inpatient Unit team. The successful candidate will work closely with the Ward Manager, Deputy Ward Manager and Senior Nurses to ensure the delivery of high quality, patient centred care.

Applicants should have experience in palliative care or demonstrate a strong interest in developing their skills in this specialist area. You must be able to work effectively within a busy, fast paced environment, providing excellent standards of care while upholding the values and high expectations of Woodlands Hospice.

If you are committed to making a me

aningful difference to patients and their families during some of the most challenging times of their lives, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Perform comprehensive assessment of patients nursing needs. Plan, implement and evaluate care delivery according to changing health needs and varying levels of complexity for patients requiring specialist palliative care.

Collect, collate, evaluate and report information, maintaining accurate patient records.

Involve patients and carers/relatives in the planning and delivery of care.

Work collaboratively with other professionals and agencies to ensure patients needs are met, especially in relation to discharge planning.

Safely administer medicines, infusions and blood transfusions as prescribed.

Establish and maintain effective communication with patients and carers/relatives including sharing sensitive news.

Recognise and respond appropriately to urgent and emergency situations.

Act as a link nurse and resource for other nursing staff for a specific area of patient care.

Working for our organisation

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was bor

n from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Responsible for managing and organising the care for a team of patients allocating resources (staff skills/knowledge and experience) as appropriate to ensure that high quality specialist palliative care is provided to all our patients and their carers.

Assist Ward Manager, Deputy Ward Manager and Senior Nurses in achieving and maintaining agreed bed occupancy and patient length of stay targets.

Support the Ward Manager and Deputy Ward Manager to maximise best use of clinical resources ensuring the effective and efficient use of physical and financial resources.

Contribute to the development of services within the IPU.

Contribute to allocated Care Quality Commission standards of quality and safety as they relate to the Inpatient unit. This may involve membership of working groups on specific area.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered nurse with current NMC registration
• Diploma in Nursing
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Mentorship/teaching qualification
• Post registration qualification in relevant specialty
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Post registration experience and successful completion of Band 5 foundation gateway competencies
• Experience within relevant clinical setting
• Evidence of working with students
• Evidence of maintaining a clinical learning environment.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Recent acute hospital experience, including as a student nurse
  
  

Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to organise workload and delegate tasks appropriately
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Ability to support less experienced staff
• Ability to problem solve
• Good written and verbal communication skills
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Basic IT skills, including e-mail and word processing
  
  

Other

Essential criteria

• Supportive of colleagues
• Ability to work in changing environments
• Committed to high standards of patient care.
• Exemplary personal standards of conduct and behaviour
• Maintain both personal and professional development
• Willingness to be flexible and adaptable
  
  

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Knowledge of current nursing issues and clinical governance
• Demonstrates awareness of own limitations
  
  

Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.

Posts advertised to 'internal staff' are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.

Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

Candidates applying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the

staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months' of their 18^th birthday.

The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £26.50 (standard disclosure) or £54.50 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Ba

nk posts require upfront payment.

From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.

Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.

All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.

As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.

If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to partici

pate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on 0151 706 4666 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.

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