A exciting opportunity for a Band 5 Staff nurse to join our Acute Medical ward at the Northumbria Hospital in Cramlington.
The successful candidate will have exemplary communication skills, will be highly motivated and have an appetite for learning and delivering the highest quality patient care.
You will 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 you will ensure that individualised programmes of care are formulated and carried out fully for each patient on the ward/department (up to 30 patients in a ward area).
This post is also suitable for a newly qualified nurse as training and support will be offered.
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.
You will be expected to deliver a high standard of care to a range of patients with multiple conditions. Delivery of basic nursing care with an emphasis on privacy and dignity. Delivery of medications including intravenous preparations .
Liaison with all members of the Multidisciplinary Team is of vital importance to ensure a safe and seamless transition for patients, which is why effective communication skills are of the utmost importance.
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.
• 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/department 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.
• 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 and (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.
This advert closes on Tuesday 25 Feb 2025
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