We are looking to recruit a highly motivated individual to join our acute medical admissions team on Ward 9 at the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital. The team provide high standards and safe care to all the patients, suffering from acute medical illness. We cover specialties relating to medicine including, toxicology, endocrinology, head injury, neurology and mental health.
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.
• Candidate must demonstrate a compassion and caring towards their patients and able to deliver high standard of care.
• One must possess good communication and organisational skills.
• Liaison with all members of the Multidisciplinary Team is of vital importance to ensure a safe and seamless transition for patients
• Delivery of medications including intravenous preparations.
• Must be willing to work flexible hours to meet the service needs of our patients which includes, weekends and night shifts.
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, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate.High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
• 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 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.
• 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/dept to ensure that individualised programmes of care are formulated and carried out fully for each patient on the ward/dept (up to 30 patients in a ward area)
This advert closes on Tuesday 8 Apr 2025
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