An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Emergency Department at the Northumbria Hospital. We are looking to appoint a Band 6 Nurse on a secondment or permanent basis to join our team. The Emergency Department is a fast paced environment with a focus on quality improvement and collaborative team working. The department comprises all aspects of emergency care from triage, majors, minors and care of those requiring resuscitation.
We are looking for experienced candidates committed to ensuring safe and high-quality care is delivered to our patients, as well as being a role model and supporting and teaching our junior workforce. There is a strong focus on multidisciplinary team working, to ensure safe and timely patient discharges or transfers to appropriate care settings.
As part of this role you will be required to coordinate the department, supported by senior band 7 nurses. These posts will be rotational between day/night shift and cover seven days a week.
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 ensure you have prior approval from your current line manager, that a secondment agreement can be facilitated within your current department before applying.
1. To assume responsibility for the devolved management of a ward/department, including the assessment of care needs, the implementation of evidence based programme of care in the absence of the Ward Manager.
2. To supervise, support and educate junior members of the team.
3. To provide senior nurse site management cover.
4. To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
5. To be responsible for all nursing care standards and to maintain high clinical standards.
6. To act as team leader and co-ordinate the multi-disciplinary care of a group of patients.
7. 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 (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.
8. To assess, prioritise, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care and to work as a member of the Emergency Care Team.
9. To support, contribute and assist in the implementation of change.
10. To be responsible and accountable for the co-ordination, management and allocation of staff, patients and resources within the department on a regular basis.
11. To evaluate and where necessary change interventions, allocation of staff or planned activities as the department determines.
This advert closes on Monday 17 Mar 2025.
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