Night Shift Nurse
Locations: Leeds
Country: United Kingdom
Time type: Full time
Posting start date (Workday): 2026-09-15
Requisition ID: 265206

Description
Looking for a permanent night shift nursing role where you can use your clinical skills, enjoy a predictable schedule and benefit from enhanced earnings?

Location: Drapers Yard, Leeds
Hours: 37 hours per week
Shift Pattern: Three 12-hour night shifts per week (7:30pm to 7:30am)
Salary: competitive with significant enhanced earnings through twilight and night shift allowances

At Fortrea's Early Clinical Research Unit , you can use your hard-earned nursing experience in a different way. You'll continue delivering hands-on patient care while helping bring new medical treatments one step closer to the people who need them.

You will work in our state-of-the-art 65,000 ft², 100 plus bed clinic, only seven minutes from the train station. It is here where life-saving medicines begin their journey .

What you will do
As a Night Shift Nurse, you'll play an important role in keeping participants safe and well while supporting research at its earliest stages.

• Support the successful overnight delivery of clinical research studies while providing safe, high quality nursing care to participants.
• Work autonomously to carry out procedures such as cannulation, blood collection, ECGs, observations and medicines administration.
• Monitor participant well-being and document any adverse events.
• Respond to clinical situations and help ensure participant safety in a fast-paced research environment.
• Record accurate data in electronic systems to support study quality and participant care.

What you bring

• NMC-registered nurse.
• Experience in a fast-paced ward environment (such as A&E, acute medicine, surgery, oncology or similar), consistent with a nurse who has progressed beyond the newly qualified stage.
• Confidence working independently with core nursing procedures, including cannulation, blood collection, ECGs and clinical observations.
• Practical experience delivering direct patient care and responding to changing clinical needs in a ward or acute care setting.
• A genuine interest in clinical research and how new medicines are developed.
• Comfort using electronic health records and clinical systems.
• Existing right-to-work status in the UK, as visa sponsorship cannot be provided.

Previous clinical research experience is not required.

Benefits

• Competitive salary with significant enhanced earnings through twilight and night shift allowances.
• Full time, permanent role, with a predictable schedule.
• Life, accidental death and disability cover, income protection, pension and medical insurance.
• The opportunity to combine hands-on nursing with participation in the development of future medicines

Culture

• Collaborative & friendly, where teams support each other, leaders are approachable and your voice is heard.
• One of the best training programmes in the industry and real growth paths across the organization.
• A modern, purpose built research environment, that makes it easier to focus on learning, teamwork and medical innovation.

If you are looking for a dedicated night shift job where you can use your skills in a new kind of nursing career helping bring new medicines to patients, we would love to hear from you.

Apply today and help shape the medicines of tomorrow.
Learn more about our EEO & Accommodations request here .