Job summary
- Main area
- Bank Community Nurses
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Flexible working - 0 hours per week (Ad hoc as and when)
- Job ref
- 319-7363782LT
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trust Wide
- Town
- Cobalt
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 Pro rata, Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Bank Community Staff Nurse
Band 5
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job overview
We require reliable, enthusiastic and motivated Community Nurses to join our bank who are looking to work hours around their other commitments, within Northumberland and North Tyneside Community Nursing Service.
In return you will can offer you:
- · Flexible hours; choose when and where you want to work
- · Competitive pay rates; including enhanced pay for unsociable hours
- · Paid annual leave
- · NHS pension scheme
- · A fast-track recruitment process if you move to a substantive role
- · Opportunities to work in different wards and departments, including community, dental and specialist services
- · Access to Services, such as those provided by our Staff Wellbeing Team
- · Ability to book your shifts from home using our online portal
- · Option to block-book shifts in a set period
- · SMS notifications of shift availability
- · Access to staff newsletters and bulletins
- · Eligible for various local and national discounts which are available to NHS staff
- · Free uniform, where applicable
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
There are a number of bank assignment each week to cover annual leave, sickness and an increase in patient activity.
The full day shifts are 08.30 hrs to 17.00hrs but also offer short shifts. They are predominantly available Monday to Friday but there could be opportunities to undertake the same hours on a weekend or bank holiday if desired. With bank you can pick and choose which shifts suit you.
The role is to provide high standards of care to patients. You will need to embrace our trust values, demonstrate excellent communication skills, and have a flexible approach to your work. Duties include:
To assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care
• To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct
• To be responsible for all nursing care standards and to maintain high clinical standards
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
We use SystmOne computerised patient record and any successful applicants would be given training to enable them to use the system.
Working for our organisation
This is a great opportunity to work in a flexible way with one of the country’s top performing trusts, twice rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission.
Northumbria Healthcare covers a large geographical area, providing safe and high-quality care in both hospital and community settings. As such we need to be able to respond quickly to meet demands caused by an increase in patient activity, staff holidays or illness.
This is where our staff bank plays a vital role, providing service support 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year. The bank is not just for doctors and nurses, we cater for all staff groups including AHPS, nursing support roles, administrative staff, facilities staff and more.
There are many reasons why people join the staff bank, some to supplement earnings, or to work around commitments such as childcare or studying, while others may wish to develop their skills and work experience. So, if having the flexibility to pick and choose your hours is important, then this may be your opportunity.
To find out more about the benefits of working on the bank visit our website www.yournorthumbriacareer.co.uk/staff-bank
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The role is to provide high standards of care to patients. You will need to embrace our trust values, demonstrate excellent communication skills, and have a flexible approach to your work. Duties include:
To assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care
• To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct
• To be responsible for all nursing care standards and to maintain high clinical standards
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Person specification
Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of working without direct supervised in a health care environment
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
- Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- State Registration on Part 1 of the 3 part NMC register
- Additional clinical qualifications or equivalent derived through experience at diploma / degree level if experienced
- Newly qualified staff will be required to undertake the Trust preceptorship programme within the first year in post
- Evidence of qualification to undertake the supervision, teaching and assessing of students (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18 month period).
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Andrea Holden
- Job title
- Chief Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
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