Staff Nurse - Lulworth Ward | University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust


Company:	Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£32,073 - £39,043 pa, pro rata
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Dorset, BH15 2JB
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	19 Aug 2026
Closing date:	18 Sept 2026

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Summary

Do you take enormous pride in delivering safe, compassionate care, resulting in a high-quality patient experience?

Do you want to make a difference to patient care?

This is an exciting opportunity for a professional, enthusiastic, positive nurse who takes pride in their work to create a vision and collaboratively work with the multi-disciplinary team to promote and build and maintain independence for our patients. Lulworth ward is a complex care medical ward managed by advanced nurse practitioners and has a secondment opportunity/ fixed term contract for 9 months to cover maternity leave.

This role requires an active UK NMC Registration

Base Location: Poole

Interview Date: 7th September

We are looking for committed and dynamic nurses with excellent communication skills and above all a real desire and passion to work with people, getting it right for patients and their families.

Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate willingness and capability to work flexibly with a commitment to excellent team working that is absolutely essential during potentially stressful and challenging situations.

UHD are investing, developing and transforming Trust services in line with the New Hospital Programme. As part of this, some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or permanently. Recruiting Managers will be happy to answer any service-specific questions at interview.

If a role or service relocates as part of a planned move, excess mileage will not be reimbursed. Travel from home to the new work base will be classed as a normal commute. Any other changes will be managed under Trust or national terms and conditions.

UHD has active networks including Women’s, BAME, Pride, EU, Pro Ability, and Armed Forces. We support Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant interview schemes.

AI tools may be used, but applications must honestly reflect your own skills and experience. Integrity is key to our recruitment process.

For UHD employees, this fixed-term post will be offered as a secondment in line with the Trust’s Secondment Policy. Please speak with your line manager before applying.

To understand this role in full details please see attached Job Description and Person Specification

This advert closes on Wednesday 2 Sep 2026

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