Staff Nurse – Waterside Unit: Sponsorship Available

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Job summary

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust is a major provider of integrated hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area. This includes Thame (Oxfordshire), Tring (Hertfordshire) and Leighton Buzzard (Bedfordshire). We provide care to over half a million patients every year. We have over 6,000 highly trained clinical staff. This includes doctors, nurses, midwives, health visitors, therapists, and healthcare scientists.

Amersham Hospital is one of several Community Hospitals within the Trust. We have three inpatient areas: Chartridge Ward, Waterside Unit, and Buckinghamshire Neuro Rehabilitation Unit.

Waterside Unit has exciting opportunities for Band 5 Staff Nurses to join their team. This post would be suitable for newly qualified nurses, those due to qualify in the near future, or individuals who already have post-registration experience. Where relevant, we will support you to undertake our Trust Preceptorship programme, offering you the structured support needed to transition your knowledge into everyday practice successfully.

Waterside Unit is a 21 bedded ward within the Integrated Elderly Care Division. We provide inpatient rehabilitation for older adults working closely with our therapy team until ready for discharge home with support or a placement in a Nursing or Residential Home. Our patients often have multiple health needs & chronic conditions.

Main duties of the job

  • Identifying the needs for nursing care of individual patients in the context of prescribed medical care.
  • Undertakes the nursing assessment of the patient, including risk assessments, e.g. Tissue viability, falls etc. and re-evaluates.
  • Planning and delivering an individual programme of nursing care for each patient, incorporating objectives, and re-evaluates.
  • Supervising qualified / unqualified staff, to ensure the optimum application of skills necessary to provide the care planned for each patient.
  • Recording nursing care given and evaluating its outcome in relation to achievement of objectives; modifying care plans accordingly.
  • Acts as a health educator throughout the patients stay.
  • Responds sensitively to the needs of patients families and visitors

Person Specification

EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING

Essential

  • Registered Nurse/Awaiting NMC PIN

Desirable

  • Evidence of further continued professional development
  • Post qualification experience in relevant speciality
  • Hold / be working towards an NMC approved mentoring qualification

EXPERIENCE

Desirable

  • Post registration experience working in an acute hospital setting

SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE

Essential

  • Ability to manage and prioritise own caseload with supervision
  • Basic IT skills
  • Knowledge of the NMC code of conduct

Desirable

  • Knowledge of care planning, preceptorship, reflection and clinical supervision

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 23 August 2026

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