Newly Qualified Staff Nurse - Adult Nurses

Job overview

Are you a passionate and enthusiastic nurse qualifying between August – October 2025? Start your nursing career with DBTH, where you’ll join a dynamic, supportive team committed to providing the highest quality of care across our three sites.

At DBTH, we are deeply committed to helping newly qualified nurses consolidate their knowledge and skills. Our comprehensive 12-month preceptorship programme will guide you through this exciting transition, offering both face-to-face and virtual support delivered by expert clinical educators and specialist teams.

• Supportive Learning Environment: You'll work alongside a multi-disciplinary team in a nurturing clinical setting, utilizing our state-of-the-art educational facilities.
• Preceptorship Package: Our dedicated clinical education team will mentor you, ensuring you gain the confidence and competence to thrive in your nursing career.
• Career Development: DBTH values your long-term growth. Whether your passion lies in clinical care, research, education, leadership, or quality improvement, we are here to support your journey every step of the way.

We are looking for Newly Qualified Nurses who are due to complete their studies/training and are available to start by November 2025.

Main duties of the job

As part of our team, you will provide care tailored to your chosen pathway, identifying your strengths and areas for growth. You'll practice in accordance with the NMC Code (2018) and be fully prepared for your first NMC Revalidation in three years.

At DBTH, we aim to be the best place to work, delivering outstanding care and fostering an environment where staff are heard, valued, and supported. We promote flexible working wherever possible to ensure a healthy work-life balance. Together, we’ll help you grow, learn, and succeed in your nursing career.

Embark on a rewarding journey with DBTH—where your future in nursing is supported, nurtured, and celebrated!

Working for our organisation

DBTH is one of Yorkshire’s Leading acute trusts, serving a population of more than 440,000. Our services are based over three main hospital sites and several additional services employing over 7,000 colleagues.

At DBTH we have a comprehensive framework of behaviours that guide us in our daily working lives, these form the DBTH Way. We pride ourselves on our commitment to the values of We Care and now the DBTH Way builds upon these foundations, providing further clarity on what it means to embody these values in our everyday interactions.

As an organisation that supports flexible working, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applicants from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including those with disabilities, members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.

• Extensive range of learning opportunities
• NHS Pension Scheme
• Generous holiday entitlement in line with Terms & Conditions
• Comprehensive health and wellbeing support
• NHS Car Lease schemes and a range of salary sacrifice scheme
• Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping and finance through external providers.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached to the advert a job pack containing the job description and person specification. Please ensure you read this document carefully

Posts are available across a range of clinical areas and we are also able to support rotational posts across a number of pathways – with an agreed initial base ward / department being assigned at the point of recruitment.

Please confirm your preferred work area within your application and make clear your expected qualifying date. Whilst interviews will not be undertaken, short discussions will be undertaken with all shortlisted applicants (face to face) so we can determine your area of preference and match successful candidates to the most suitable vacancy.

• Barnsley NHS Foundation Trust
• Doncaster & Bassetlaw NHS Foundation Trust
• The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust
• Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust - Intermediate Care Wards and Community Health Care services only
• Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

You will be invited to a face to face discussion where it is expected you will attend to explore your preferential areas in more detail. The allocations to vacancies will be undertaken centrally by all the above organisations and one offer will be made to successful candidates.

Person specification

Personal Attributes & Skills

• Demonstrate good verbal and written communication skills with multi-disciplinary team / client/ relatives
• Demonstrate a caring manner with an understating disposition. Be interested and committed to caring for people from any type of cultural and environmental background or illness
• Evidence of working effectively within the multi-disciplinary team

• Evidence of working effectively within the multi-disciplinary team

Qualifications / Training

• Completion of Nurse Training Programme to obtain registration with the NMC
• Current registration (on qualifying)
• Up to date knowledge of professional issues

Knowledge and Experience

• Able to accommodate the demands of the post with the flexible working as required and good attendance
• Precise and methodical in working practice and able to work under own initiative
• Resourceful and able to work on own initiatives

• Able to delegate work appropriately

We Care Values and the DBTH Way

• Kind
• Inclusive
• Person-centred
• Empowering
• Accountable
• Collaborative
• Attentive Listening
• Integrity
• Honesty
• Courage
• Positivity

• Please note that all correspondence will be sent you to via email. If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system. In submitting an application form, you authorise our Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed.
• We reserve the right to close down this advert early should there be a high number of applicants.
• The Trust is committed to its obligations in accordance with the Equality Act 2010, and we positively encourage applications from all sections of the community.
• All employment with the Trust is subject to a number of NHS Employment Checks being met to a satisfactory standard including verification of identity, eligibility to work in the United Kingdom, references and qualifications in addition to professional registration, a disclosure and barring records check and occupational health check if these are deemed to be a requirement for the position to be undertaken. The Trust is now passing the charge for undertaking a DBS check on to candidates in the event that they are successfully appointed into the post for which they have applied. Please note that this check will be charged for in two instalments when you commence employment with Doncaster & Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. By applying for this vacancy you are agreeing to this undertaking in the event you are successfully appointed.