New job

Hi, I need your advice please.

I applied for an OPD nurse job in my local hospital and got it! I am currently working long days in A&E and travel 1 hour to and back to my current place of work so I was very tempted to get this new position which is about 15 minutes walk from my home. I enjoy my current job, I have nice colleagues so the main reason for my move is the short distance and the short days.

The interview went well, the OPD matron, consultant and band 6 were present and all very pleasant. In the afternoon of the interview I got a phone call from a very keen matron offering me the job. The OPD is small and has only a band 7, a band 6 and myself a band 5.

I accepted the post but about 2 weeks later , in my current place of work, I meet a junior doctor that is actually training in this unit. I asked him about the place and he told me some very disturbing things:

the band 7 nurse has left (she had already left at the time of my interview)

the band 6 nurse that interviewed me is leaving

a consultant is very nasty with staff and is the reason for people leaving.

I spoke to the matron who I fell was quite embarrassed about my questions. She agreed that the department was going through changes but that they were interviewing strong candidates for the vacant posts and that I would be well supported in the unit by the doctors and by herself...

I am obviously shocked about this and I do not have a good feeling about this job. I want to pull out but my friends are nagging me to take it and to ignore what the junior told me, they tell me that I should not listen and see by myself.

what do you think?