Staff Nurse

Role overview

An opportunity has opened in the newly established Emergency Department at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary for a Registered Nurse to contribute to urgent and emergency care delivery. The role involves providing high-quality, person-focused nursing support for patients presenting with acute conditions across the department, including Majors, Resuscitation, Minor Injuries and Illness, and Initial Assessment.

What you will do

• Take part in assessing, planning, delivering, and reviewing individualised nursing care for medical patients.
• Work alongside the multidisciplinary team to manage patients in a busy emergency setting.
• Support patients with clear guidance about treatment plans, medicines, follow-up arrangements, and self-care so they can take an active role in their recovery.
• Contribute to joined-up care planning with colleagues from different disciplines to maintain continuity and effective handover of information.
• Notice any deterioration or other changes in a patient’s condition and escalate to the appropriate professionals without delay.
• Represent the patient’s perspective, while safeguarding dignity, rights, and best interests.
• Keep electronic patient records complete, accurate, and up to date, including assessments, interventions, responses, and discharge advice.
• Work in line with evidence-based practice and help strengthen nursing standards within your area.

About the trust

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust employs more than 6,500 staff and delivers care from Calderdale Royal Hospital, Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, community sites, health centres, and patients’ homes. Its services include urgent and emergency care, medical and surgical services, maternity, gynaecology, critical care, children’s and young people’s care, end-of-life care, and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services. The trust also provides community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres such as Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

About the organisation

The trust continues to modernise and invest in its services. As a foundation trust, it operates as part of the NHS while being led by an independent board, with decisions shaped by the needs of patients, staff, and the local community. This structure supports quick action to improve services and respond to changing local needs.

Contact for informal enquiries

For more details or an informal discussion, contact Niki Finey, Lead Nurse, at niki.finey@cht.nhs.uk or 01484 344311. If unavailable, contact Kloe Flockton, Practice Educator, at 01484 344311 or kloe.flockton@cht.nhs.uk.