Job summary
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
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the nursing team on Ward 9 at Wansbeck General Hospital. This post will provide the successful applicant the opportunity to develop their skills in and to enhance their knowledge of stroke rehabilitation and care of the elderly medicine.
The opportunity to work on Ward 9 at Wansbeck provides nurses with an opportunity to play a key role in the patient's journey with good opportunities to build relationships with community colleagues to help facilitate discharges home. We have a friendly and flexible team of nurses already within the ward and would look to support any new member of the team to develop their skills where we can.
Main duties of the job
The ward operates an internal rotation rota system which includes a range of shift patterns to suit most needs. We have a friendly and flexible team of nurses with good retention of staff.
To provide nursing care to a caseload of patients and to provide verbal and written handovers to nursing colleagues and the multi disciplinary team.
When responsible for the ward/department to ensure that individualised programmes of care are formulated and carried out fully for each patient on the ward/department (up to 23 patients in a ward area).
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
To work within a very strong MDT, managing complex rehabilitation needs of stroke patients and discharges. To become competent in the administration of NG and PEG feeds and general nursing duties.
Person specification
Qualifications / Professional Registration
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
Experience and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Thorough understanding of contemporary nursing issues
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
- Joanne Gilroy
- Job title
- Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01670 529109
- Additional information
Leanne Potts - Modern Matron
Tel. 01670 529834
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