Job summary
- Main area
- elderly care
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-7325613AZ
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hexham General hospital
- Town
- Hexham
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Staff Nurse
NHS AfC: 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
· To assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care working as a member of the ward team under the direction of the Ward Manager
· To be responsible for the organising and co-ordination of nursing services in the ward/dept in the absence of senior staff on a regular basis.
· 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
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
"Please note, for Secondment roles before an application is submitted, please ensure you have received the appropriate approval and completed documentation required beforehand, as this may delay the process if an offer was to be made."
Main duties of the job
· To assess, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care in partnership with the patient and the multidisciplinary team
· To promote health with all patients and carers
· To deliver governance standards in line with the ‘Essence of Care Standards’ and the Trust’s Governance framework
· To respond to enquiries from relatives and carers, deal with concerns and actively problem solve to improve the patients experience
· In the absence of senior staff to take charge of the ward or department managing skill mix, rota’s, workload and case mix to the dependencies within the ward environment
· Ensuring appropriate use of physical+ budgetary resources
· Act as named nurse / team leader managing patient care from admission to discharge. Actively instigating discharge involves liaising with MDT’s and outside agencies
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? 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, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· 1ST Level live NMC Registered Nurse
· 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)
· Thorough understanding of contemporary nursing issues
· Ensuring the delivery of ‘Compassion in Practice’ – Nursing, Midwifery and Care Staff Vision and Strategy, incorporating the 6C’s.
· Able to manage a ward/department area for a period of a shift
· Ability to communicate with staff at all levels
· Ability to communicates with MDT
· Ability to work as member of a team
· High level of personal motivation
· Must be flexible to meet the needs of the service
· To lead, inspire and motivate others to high performance by agreeing clear goals and objectives, providing support and guidance and creating opportunities for development
· To contribute to the development of a culture of high engagement, where staff are empowered and entrusted to provide the best services and care for patients
· To promote and facilitate innovation and continuous improvement to deliver better services for service users and patients
· Accountability for the leadership of post holders staff / teams / departments
Desirable:
· PP126/127
· D32/33
· Post Registration qualification in specialty
· Diploma/degree in nursing
· Leadership skills
· Basic IT skills
· Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- 1st Level live NMC registered Nurse
- 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)
Desirable criteria
- PP126/7
- D32/33
- Post Registration qualification in specialty
- Diploma/degree in nursing
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
- Sherriann Craig
- Job title
- Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01434655448
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