Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 193-7395214NCG
- Employer
- Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Berkshire Hospital
- Town
- Reading
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Staff Nurse - Mortimer Ward
Band 5
Royal Berkshire Hospital are pleased to announce that following our CQC inspection we have been rated ‘Good’ with inspectors reporting that we have made significant improvements. The Trust’s overall rating has also improved to ‘good’. This is a great opportunity to join our clinical or non-clinical teams to create a positive and motivating environment within our trust. Come and join our team in this exciting time of change as we pride ourselves, our staff and our services on excellence.
At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust we put our patients at the heart of every element of health and care that we provide. The Trust works together as a community to deliver its vision which is “Working together to provide outstanding care for our community.”
We are Compassionate in our thoughts, words and actions
We are Aspirational and have a true desire to be dynamic and to innovate
We are Resourceful and responsible in the way we work and live
We are Excellent in our development, fairness and sharing best practice
Amazing things happen at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust; delivered by amazing people so why don’t you come and join us. We offer a range of learning and development for all employees may you be clinical or non-clinical.
Job overview
Staff Nurse - Older Male Care (Mortimer)
Do you want to make a real difference to patient care?
We do and we have, but we are looking to recruit more staff nurses to continue and to contribute to making a real difference to our older male patients.
We are looking for trained staff nurses to join our journey of celebrating and embracing older care. It’s an exciting time for our 5 older care wards as they have recently been redesigned to be ‘dementia friendly’ following £600k funding from the Department Of Health.
We are also piloting a new older persons 'Enhanced Recovery Pathway' - one of the first Trust to do this. This highlights that as a Trust we are innovative (as reflected in our Trust aims - Excellence, Ambition and Innovation) aiming to make a real difference to patient care for now and the future.
Excellent patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we believe our staff are central in achieving this. Therefore we offer tailored personal development and the opportunity to take part in exciting new research.
If you are motivated, compassionate and want to make a real difference to the care of our older patients then we are looking for you to join us on our journey – we want to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder:
- Is responsible for undertaking and recording a comprehensive nursing assessment and planning, delivering and evaluating high standards of evidenced based nursing care to a diverse group of
patients. - Is expected to deliver care without direct supervision. Is accountable for the care delivered and any omissions of care.
- Is expected to teach and supervise more junior staff, students and the non registered nursing workforce.
- Is accountable for care or any omissions of care that they delegate to
others. - Is expected to act as role model, delivering.
Working for our organisation
Reading sits on the river Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.
The CQC recently rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.
Our values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Resourceful, Excellent, reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented staff to make this happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details on the job role, please refer to the job description and person specification attached.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse –part 1
- Current NMC registration
- Evidence of recent continuous professional development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience (through placement or employment ) of working in an acute clinical environment
Other
Essential criteria
- Information technology literate.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Brian McGrath
- Job title
- Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0118 322 7044
- Additional information
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