Student Nurses 2026 - Newly Qualified (Adult Only)

Communications and relationship skills1. Provides and receives complex information, communicating sensitively and confidentiallyinformation relating to patients/clients (for example, care plan discussions with patients).2. Communicates in a compassionate and empathetic manner, using persuasion and reassurance.3. Ability to recognise barriers to communication, and ability to modify communication style as andwhen required.4. Ability to effectively communicate whilst providing training to students.5. Demonstrate effective communications skills with the wider MDT team.Clinical Skills6. To be responsible for planning and organising a defined caseload of patients on a continuingbasis.7. To assess, plan, implement/deliver and evaluate patient care for a defined caseload and recognize signs of deterioration/change and respond according to protocol.8. Maintain appropriate levels of training for clinical skills as needed within scope of practice.9. To maintain safe custody of drugs, ensuring that checking, witnessing and administrationprocedures are compatible with statutory and trust requirements.10. In the absence of Sister/Charge Nurse effectively respond to complaints/concerns and escalate as required11. To ensure clinical incident/near misses are managed and reported and escalated in a timely manner. 12. To be part of the multidisciplinary team decision making, acting when required as the patients advocate in order to support the patients pathway.13. Work within the organisational policy, standard operating procedures and guidelines.14. To undertake risk assessments and implement risk reducing measures. To report and escalate to the Line Manager any deficiencies in the arrangements for minimizing risk.15. Ensure that privacy, dignity and safety of individuals is maintained at all times.

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

Acute Care

Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.

Primary Care

Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.

Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.

We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Qualifications

Essential: - 1st Level Registered Nurse (degree/diploma)