Adult Nursing

Adult Nursing

About the department

Stoke Mandeville and Wycombe are our two acute hospitals and our nurses work right across the different wards and services.

Nursing teams operate within the following structures:

Integrated Elderly Community Care including elderly care wards (for Community Nurses see the separate role profile for further details)
Integrated Medicine including A&E, Respiratory, Stroke, Cardiology and other medicine based specialities
Surgery & Critical Care including Theatres, Intensive care, a specialist burns unit and other surgical based teams
Specialist Services including the world-renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre, Cancer Care and Haematology and others

All nursing posts are paid on the Agenda for Change pay system, starting on the band 5 scale and going upwards as a career progresses.

About the role

Adult nursing is a rewarding career. As part of your training, you can expect to learn new skills and procedures that help patients.

There are many reasons why you should consider a career as an adult nurse. It offers you the chance to make a difference, a high degree of flexibility and a career with excellent employment prospects.

Based from either a hospital ward or outpatients department, adult nurses are a key part of our multidisciplinary teams.Your nursing career will mean working with adults of all ages. They may suffer from one or more long or short-term physical health condition. This could include heart disease, injuries from an accident, pneumonia, arthritis, diabetes or cancer.

Building a trusting relationship with each patient is essential. Your aim is to improve your patients’ quality of life, whatever their situation. You’ll need to take lots of factors into account and juggle many priorities to get the best possible results for your patients.

Career routes

Did you know nursing is the UK’s most employable type of degree, with 94% of students getting a job within six months of finishing their course?

Once you have qualified as a nurse, there are a wide range of opportunities. You could specialise in a certain field such as Operating Theatres, Care for the Elderly, or Intensive Care.

There are lots of opportunities to progress your career, either by specialising or rising up the ranks to becoming a senior nurse. As you climb the ‘career ladder’, each role will require further experience or qualification to enable you to take that next step.

We recruit Acute Nurses on a Trust-wide basis, regardless of speciality. Should you apply to our advert, we will ask you for your preferences and match you with the appropriate team.