Band 5
Main area
Respiratory
Grade
Band 5
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Including night shift rotation)
Job ref
287-RMED-74-25-A
Department name
LUH - 1 General Staffing (AFC posts)
Site
Liverpool University Foundation trust
Town
Liverpool
Salary
£31,049 - £37,796 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
25/08/2025 23:59
Job Overview
We are looking for candidates who are
experienced professionally in this exciting domain of Respiratory medicine. Ward 6C offers a supportive and learning environment which endeavours to constantly develop the service, in order that our patients can receive the highest quality and most up to date care. You must possess a caring, compassionate and positive manner and have excellent communication skills.
The successful candidate will be expected to rotate from day to night duty. To provide excellent standards of nursing care to complex respiratory patients with conditions including COPD, Asthma, chest drain/pleural management for pneumothorax and pleural effusions, tracheostomies and PE'S. Supporting patients through Cancer diagnosis and managing symptoms. NIV/Bipap care. Whilst ensuring high standards of documentation and communication.
The successful candidate must be driven to develop new skills and knowledge whilst always keeping the patient at the centre of what they do. They must be a positive role model and lead by example. Applicants must possess excellent communication skills, have a flexible working approach and a willingness to work as part of a forward thinking team, as well as a strong commitment to ensuring a positive hospital experience for patients and their relatives/carers.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job will be to deliver holistic care, to the very acutely unwell and those with chronic respiratory illnesses who require frequent treatment, to all patients with a wide range of thoracic conditions. The successful candidate will be involved in medication delivery including intravenous fluids. Planning, implementing and evaluating care.
The successful candidate will be involved in all aspects of managing long term conditions and facilitating patients discharge and ensuring patient flow within the trust, they will need to have good organisation skills to facilitate this. Personal care delivery and ensuring patients observations are recorded in timely manner and escalated appropriately.
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 born 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.
For roles at Liverpool Women's, visit their careers page.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
The successful candidate must be driven to develop new skills and knowledge whilst always keeping the patient at the centre of what they do in a supportive and education-led environment. You must be a registered nurse ideally with previous Respiratory experience or a very keen interest in the speciality. You must be a positive role model, and lead by example. Applicants must possess excellent communication skills; have a flexible working approach and a willingness to work as part of a forward thinking team, as well as a strong commitment to ensuring a positive hospital experience for patients and their relatives/carers.
Applicants must also possess a caring, compassionate and positive manner.
The successful candidate will be expected to rotate from day to night duty.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse, 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 maintaining a clinical learning environment.
- Evidence of working with students
Desirable criteria
- Recent acute hospital experience [including as a student nurse]
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of current nursing issues and clinical governance
- Demonstrates awareness of own limitations
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
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 £23 (standard disclosure) or £43 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. DBS applications submitted from 2nd December will be subject to the new DBS fee of £26.50 (standard) and £54.50 (Enhanced).
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 participate 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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