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Grace is a junior sister on a cardiac ward in Birmingham, with six years as an adult nurse. Her CV is in the UK format and the Clarity template, and it puts her registration, skills and leadership where a ward manager looks for them.

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Grace Okafor

Registered nurse (adult)

grace.okafor@example.com07700 900456

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Profile

NMC-registered adult nurse with six years on busy medical and cardiac wards, the last three as a junior sister. Calm in an emergency, careful with medicines, and keen to teach students and new starters.

Work experience

Junior sister, cardiac ward (Band 6)

Apr 2023 – Present

Midlands General Hospital NHS Trust · Birmingham

  • Runs shifts on a 28-bed cardiac ward, leading up to eight nurses and support workers

  • Led a falls-prevention project that cut falls on the ward by a third in a year

  • Practice assessor for six nursing students a year

Staff nurse, acute medical unit (Band 5)

Sept 2019 – Mar 2023

Midlands General Hospital NHS Trust · Birmingham

  • Cared for up to eight acutely unwell patients a shift, including patients on telemetry and non-invasive ventilation

  • Completed IV therapy and venepuncture competencies in the first year

  • Supported newly qualified nurses through their preceptorship

Education

BSc (Hons), Adult nursing

2016 – 2019

University of Westmere · First class

Skills

Clinical: Medicines management, IV therapy, ECG and telemetry, Sepsis screening

Leadership: Shift coordination, Student assessment, Audit

Certifications

Registered nurse (adult)

Sept 2019

Nursing and Midwifery Council

Advanced Life Support (ALS)

Feb 2024

Resuscitation Council UK

Volunteering

Volunteer first aider

2020 – Present

Birmingham Community First Aid

First aid at community events, about once a month.

Languages

English: Native

Yoruba: Conversational

Availability

Notice period: 56 days

References

Available on request

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What makes it work

  • Registration up front. “NMC-registered” is in the first line of her profile, and her registration is listed with its date. It is the first thing a ward manager checks.
  • Bands and wards named. Each role gives its band and the kind of ward, so the reader sees the level and the setting at a glance.
  • Clinical skills in the NHS’s own words. IV therapy, telemetry, sepsis screening: the terms a person specification uses are the terms on her CV.
  • Leadership with a result. Running shifts, assessing students, and a project that cut falls on her ward by a third show she is ready for the next band.
  • Training with its date. Advanced Life Support needs renewing, so it is listed with the date she passed.

Make it yours

  • Read the person specification and use its words where they are true for you.
  • Many NHS jobs are applied for with a form, not a CV. Your CV still helps: copy from it into the form, and send it to agencies and private hospitals.
  • Keep your competencies and training up to date, with dates.

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