Job summary
- Main area
- Trauma
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Fixed term: 1 year (Maternity cover)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (3 weeks of 3 shifts, 1 week of 4. Shifts are 11.5hrs. Both day and night shift working across 7 day period.)
- Job ref
- 388-8233654-PC&S
- Employer
- Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Torbay Hospital
- Town
- Torquay
- Salary
- £32,073 - £39,043 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/09/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Registered Nurse - Ainslie Ward
NHS AfC: Band 5
Job overview
Ainslie Ward at Torbay Hospital is seeking to recruit a full-time Registered Nurse to join our busy Trauma and Orthopaedic ward for 1 year to provide maternity cover. This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to the delivery of high-quality, patient-centred care, ensuring the highest achievable standards are met following comprehensive patient assessment.
As a Registered Nurse within Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust, you will work as part of a skilled multidisciplinary team to assess patient needs and to plan, implement, and evaluate individual programmes of care.
Ainslie Ward is a 26-bedded trauma unit providing care for patients with a wide range of injuries, many of whom require surgical intervention. You will work collaboratively with Registered Nurses and other healthcare professionals, demonstrating autonomy, professionalism, and effective clinical decision-making within the ward environment.
We are committed to supporting your ongoing professional development. You will have access to a structured programme of in-house training, external learning opportunities, and regular clinical supervision and appraisal, enabling you to achieve your full potential and continue to develop your skills and career.
Full time 1 year fixed term position (covering Days & Nights)
Main duties of the job
- Providing, managing and coordinating your allocated patients care needs
- Liaising and communicating with your patients NOK, family, Carer
- Supporting, mentoring students
- Administering oral/IV medications
- Admitting, carrying out assessments and discharges
- Wound care
- Observations
- Communicating efficiently and professionally both verbal and written, updating, involving your surrounding team with changes occurring throughout your shift
- Working as part of the multi-disciplinary team
Working for our organisation
The team is made up of a Senior Sister, Junior Sister's, Trauma Co-Ordinator's, Band 5 Registered Nurses, Health Care Support Worker's and a Dementia Specialist Health Care Assistant.
We are also proud to have ward based Hotel Services and two Housekeepers. All of who work well together providing the team spirit we enjoy and feel safe with.
As listed within the above list of main duties of job, while incorporating the Trust Values:
- Respect and Dignity
- Commitment to Quality of Care
- Compassion
- Improving Lives
- Working Together
- Everyone Counts
Our people are caring, committed, inclusive and focussed on quality. We focus on solutions and people’s strengths and encourage outside the box thinking and embrace innovation and change wherever it can drive improvement. If you share our values and vision and are passionate about working with people on what matters to them, you could be a real asset to our Torbay and South Devon Team. #CareToJoinUsTSD
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification.
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Person specification
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Essential criteria
- NMC Registered (Level 1) Adult Nursing.
Desirable criteria
- Interest in or experience of specialist surgery: Trauma and Orthopaedics
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of meeting revalidation, specialist surgical skills and mandatory training requirements
- Knowledge of clinical governance and how they are key in-patient safety and assessing risk
Desirable criteria
- • Awareness of the NHS plan and current initiatives that affect us particularly in the south west peninsular
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
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rebecca Needs
- Job title
- Senior Sister
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01803 654527
- Additional information
For an informal conversation and a look around our ward please contact me throughout the week.
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