Main area: Gastroenterology
Grade Band: 5
Contract: Permanent (to be held for internal recruitment)
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (The post is fully rotational days/nights and covers seven days a week)
Job ref: 319-6832822MH-TNA
Site: The Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital
Town: Cramlington
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 pro rata per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 17/02/2025 23:59
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.
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Job overview
1st Level live NMC registration is required for this role.
Ward 4 NSECH is a 24 hour emergency admissions ward specialising in joint gastroenterology and medicine, treating both male and female adult patients with acute medical conditions.
Our staff nurses provide a high quality service in a safe environment where the needs to each patient are cared for in a professional and holistic manner by using all available specialist knowledge and skills. The wellbeing of all our patients relies on appropriate and timely assessment, investigation, treatment and care.
Our ward can be a busy and challenging environment. In joining our team, you will bring your skills and passion to provide the highest quality patient-focused care and compassion for our patients. You must be a team player with excellent communication skills and have the ability to work using your own initiative as well as part of the wider team.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be expected to work as part of a dynamic nursing team delivering all aspects of care to the patients.
You will have the opportunity to develop in this specialised field as well as continuing development as a Band 5. There are a huge range of learning opportunities available.
You will find your contribution is valued and that you are supported through an excellent management and teamwork approach, working as part of a multi-disciplinary team. We offer comprehensive learning and development support and excellent training opportunities to broaden your experience, knowledge and skills.
Person specification
Qualifications
* 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).
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible.
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