Job summary

Are you ready to start your nursing career with MWL?

If you are a Student Nurse qualifying or newly qualified in 2026, come and find out where your nursing career could take you at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Our Student Nurse Recruitment Event will give you the opportunity to explore nursing roles across the Trust and learn more about the support available as you make the transition from student to registered nurse.

At MWL, you will be supported to develop your skills and experience, grow in confidence and build a rewarding nursing career, while making a real difference to our patients.

Recruitment Event & Interviews:Tuesday 17 November 2026Nightingale House, Whiston Hospital

Nursing appointments will be subject to appropriate pre-employment checks, including anEnhanced DBS check and applicable barred list checks.

Take the first step in your nursing career with Team MWL.

Main duties of the job

• To be responsible in association with the team leader for the formulation and implementation of individual patient care plans.
• To participate in the holistic assessment of patients, and to formulate and review individual patient care plans and to act as 'named nurse' or associate for a group of patients from admission to discharge as determined by the Ward Manager.
• To commence and participate in research/special projects as directed by the ward manager.
• To contribute to the setting, maintaining and monitoring of standards of care within the ward.
• Help to ensure that all equipment is in safe working order in conjunction with the department equipment controller.
• Internal rotations onto night duty and twilight shifts are required.
• To assist in the promotion of effective communication with all ward staff and other departments as required.
• To remain updated and fully comply with all Trust Infection control policies

About us

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.

Our services:

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.

Community Services

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.

Specialist Regional Services

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.

Achievements:

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme.

Details

Date posted

21 October 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£32,073 to £39,043 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

409-8009177-A

Job locations

Mersey West Lancashire Teaching Hospital Sites

Warrington Road

Prescot

L35 5DR

United Kingdom

Job description

Job responsibilities

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.

Job description Job responsibilities 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• 1st Level Registered Nurse (degree/diploma)

Person Specification Qualifications Essential 1st Level Registered Nurse (degree/diploma)

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Additional information Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Mersey West Lancashire Teaching Hospital Sites

Warrington Road

Prescot

L35 5DR

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.merseywestlancs.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Mersey West Lancashire Teaching Hospital Sites

Warrington Road

Prescot

L35 5DR

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.merseywestlancs.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)