Staff Nurse - Surgery Division

Are you a Registered Staff Nurse looking for a new challenge and looking to progress within your nursing career? Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust currently have openings for Staff Nurses to join our Surgical Division.
We currently have vacancies in:
Kent & Medway Orthopaedic Centre Inpatient Ward and Ward 30 - Trauma and Orthopaedic
Ward 32 and Ward 11 - General Surgery
Urology Investigation Unit - Urology
Ophthalmology Outpatients - Ophthalmology
We our looking for enthusiastic, well-motivated individuals to join our highly skilled multi-disciplinary team and make a difference in patient care. You must be flexible, approachable, compassionate, hardworking and be able to use your own initiative whilst also having the ability to work under pressure.
There are full-time and part-time positions available across the division. We welcome interested individuals to contact us if you would like any further information about the vacancies we currently have. This role will involve developing further skills and knowledge in relation to patient care, as well as, managerial/team leadership duties., At MTW, we seek to develop a culture where everyone can reach their full potential with opportunities to grow and develop their career. We recognise and value the unique contributions that each of our staff bring, delivering the best quality care and service to our patients. We are committed to being a diverse employer and strive to reflect everyone in our local communities. We welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experiences and celebrate the diversity of thought, viewpoints and ideas that will make our Trust the best place to work.
We support our staff with disabilities to ensure they have the adjustments they need to be the best they can be in the workplace. Collaborating with Access to Work means that our staff are assessed by experts in the workplace and we ensure that their recommendations are implemented as quickly as possible. You can find out more here: Access to Work: get support if you have a disability or health condition: What Access to Work is - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Please take time to customise your personal statement to ensure it accurately reflects the position you are applying for, and that your application is checked for errors / omissions prior to submission. Please note that incomplete applications may not be submitted for shortlisting. We experience high levels of applications for many of our vacancies and therefore recommend that you submit your application as early as possible in order to ensure it is considered if the vacancy is closed early.
Please contact the Recruiting Manager for an informal discussion should you have any queries relating to the role for which you are applying. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted via an email as soon as possible after the closing date. Should you receive an invitation to attend interview, please confirm or decline your attendance. Interview slots will then be allocated on a first come first serve basis.

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital trust in the south-east of England.
We provide a full range of general hospital services and some aspects of specialist and complex care to around 600,000 people living in West Kent and East Sussex. We have a team of over 8,000 full and part-time staff. We also provide specialist cancer services to around 2 million people across Kent and East Sussex via the Kent Oncology Centre. Fordcombe Hospital is near Tunbridge Wells and became part of the Trust in October 2024. It focusses on planned care and has two operating theatres, 28 inpatient and day care beds, diagnostic services including X-ray, MRI, CT and endoscopy, and a number of consultation and treatment rooms.
In the 2024 NHS staff survey, our employees ranked MTW among the top 10 NHS Trusts nationwide and the second-best Trust to work for in the South East.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

MTW's Department of Ophthalmology is the largest specialised eye unit in the south east of England, serving a total population of 1 million.
Surgical Specialities:
Surgical Specialities consists of a 19 bedded ward caring for surgical and urology patients, the Urology Investigation Unit and the Maidstone Short Stay Surgery Unit.
Trauma and Orthopaedics:
Our Trauma and Orthopaedic team help care for patients with disorders of the bones, muscles or joints. The department offers a full range of planned (elective) surgery and emergency (trauma) surgery for patients who may need urgent treatment as a result of an accident. This includes routine procedures such as arthroscopies (a procedure to investigate joint) problems) and more specialist surgery such as treatment for pelvic fractures. We have T&O wards at both Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells.
The trust has recently opened the Kent and Medway Orthopaedic Centre, which is a multimillion-pound theatre complex at Maidstone Hospital. It has three operating theatres and 24 dedicated surgical beds for patients having planned orthopaedic surgery for arthritic conditions and soft tissue injuries affecting the bones and joints.
General Surgery:
The general surgery directorate consists of 2 acute surgical wards, the Surgical Assessment Unit, the Private Patient Unit and our endoscopy departments.