Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
An exciting opportunity has arisen to lead the nursing team on Ward 2, a General Medicine Ward at Hexham General Hospital. This post will provide the successful applicant the opportunity to lead a team in developing their skills in a wide range of specialties to enhance their knowledge of general medicine and aid their development in their nursing career. This nursing specialty provides opportunities to treat very different groups of patients. Ward 2 offers nurses the chance 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 are looking to recruit a forward-thinking individual who will continue to foster, demonstrate, and encourage moral leadership and innovative practice within the multidisciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
* Providing leadership to the multidisciplinary team
* Planning and implementation of flexible staff rosters and annual leave
* Maintenance of adequate staff levels and skill mix
* Environmental assessments
* Encourage and support innovative practice and multidisciplinary teamwork
* Lead in development of clinical audit and guidelines
* Lead in incident investigation and care reviews
* Development of staff
* Monitoring of staff wellbeing at work
* Budget management
About us
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, and 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.
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. Please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* 1st Level Registered Nurse
* Registered Mentor
* ENB 730
* Degree or Diploma
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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