Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-7299380JN
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Tyneside General Hospital
- Town
- North Shields
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Practice Development Nurse/AHP - Health Care Support Worker
Band 6
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
This post offers a unique opportunity to join the Healthcare support worker (HCSW) Development Team focusing on providing a range of development opportunities for Nursing, Midwifery, Allied Health Professionals (NMAHP) Health Care Support Workers.
The post holder will support the team with an emphasis on HCSW’s knowledge, skills and learning opportunities to grow and maintain their clinical competence. The team will focus on the development priorities of our HCSW in practice.
Main duties of the job
- Support the implementation of the HCSW Strategy.
- Support the development and delivery of a range of programmes e.g. Get into TNA Bootcamp, Deteriorating Patient Education for HCSWs.
- Work closely with senior teams to establish and embed structured education and development provisions for our HCSWs
- Design and develop resources to support recruitment and retention to encourage, motivate and support our future workforce.
- Contribute to the creation of an identity of our HCSWs and develop a sense of belonging.
- Produce relevant and accurate data, reports and resources using information from a range of sources.
- Provide analysis and recommendations where necessary.
- Work clinically alongside patients and service users, maintaining clinical credibility.
- Provide pastoral care, support and education to new and existing HCSWs.
- Participate in quality improvement work across the Trust, collaborating with other teams and services.
- Inspire and motivate others to high performance by agreeing clear goals and objectives, providing support and guidance.
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
- Support the implementation of the HCSW Strategy
- Support the development and delivery of a range of programmes e.g. Get into TNA Bootcamp, Deteriorating Patient Education for HCSWs.
- Encourage and equip HCSWs to supervise students in practice.
- Development and maintenance of an online resource with learning and career opportunities.
- Design and develop resources to support recruitment and retention to encourage, motivate and support our future workforce.
- Contribute to the creation of an identity of our HCSWs and develop a sense of belonging.
- Encourage engagement of all HCSWs via relevant forums and networks (HCSW Ambassador role/HCSW Shared Decision-Making Council)
- Act as an expert clinical resource to colleagues by guiding HCSW practices, assessing competence and supporting implementation of policies/guidelines.
- Identify/signpost/promote training and education and career opportunities for HCSWs within NHCT and externally
- Support production of transparent data and reports.
- Work clinically alongside patients and service users, maintaining clinical credibility.
- Provide pastoral care, support and education to new and existing HCSWs.
- Participate in quality improvement work across the Trust, collaborating with other teams and services.
- Inspire and motivate others to high performance by agreeing clear goals and objectives, providing support and guidance.
Person specification
Qualifications & Professional Reigistration
Essential criteria
- 1 st Level Registered nurse/AHP with effective NMC registration/HCPC.
- Evidence of qualification to undertake the supervision, teaching and assessing of students.
- Degree in relevant subject or equivalent qualification and / or experience.
- Evidence of ongoing professional development.
Desirable criteria
- Coaching qualification.
- Human Factors training.
- Leadership course.
Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Significant post registration experience in a clinical setting and ability to demonstrate clinical skills, knowledge, credibility and expertise in practice.
- Experience of undertaking practice developments in the clinical setting.
- Clinical supervisor
Desirable criteria
- Change management.
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
- Stacey Welburn
- Job title
- HCSW Development Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07708108513
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