Staff Nurse
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
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Job summary
It’s a great time to apply to join our incredible organisation: The Trust’s world-wide reputation and opportunities to gain exceptional training and experience have ensured highly successful nurse recruitment campaigns. We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity to apply to join the Royal Papworth Hospital family.
Opportunities currently in:
- Respiratory Medicine
- Cardiology
- Surgery
You don’t need experience in cardio-thoracic nursing to apply. Working in any of our specialities will see you progress and fast forward your career to become an expert within this rewarding field of work. You will be working with friendly, dedicated and passionate teams who all lead from the heart.
Main duties of the job
You will need the following attributes:
- Be a UK Registered Nurse (or awaiting registration if newly qualified)
- Highly motivated, enthusiastic and a willingness to learn
- Excellent communication skills
If you can bring fresh perspectives, in any way, to the challenges we face whether through your background as someone from a UK ethnic minority or you live with a disability (visible or not), are open about your faith, religion or belief or about being LGBT, your application will receive a warm welcome.
In addition to a range of staff benefits, we offer a £1,000 welcome payment**
Your application – supporting information
Our Trust values are Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. Please include in your Supporting Information why you would like to join Royal Papworth Hospital and how you will support our values
Please indicate your 1st and 2nd preference in your Supporting Information. Where, following successful interview, we are unable to accommodate your preference/s at that time due to our low vacancy rates, we will retain your details and offer you the next available vacancy.
About us
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UKs leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge.
It performs the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UKs first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure. Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future.
Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today.
The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence and collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles and interactions.
Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality. The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion and belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.
Date posted
15 May 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 5
Salary
£28,407 to £34,581 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number
C9175-2324-1-RL67TW
Job locations
Royal Papworth Hospital
Papworth Road
Cambridge Biomedical Campus
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB2 0AY
Employer details
Employer name
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Royal Papworth Hospital
Papworth Road
Cambridge Biomedical Campus
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB2 0AY
Employer's website
https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/working-here (Opens in a new tab)



For questions about the job, contact:
Emily Gilchrist
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