Job summary
Northumbria Endoscopy Trust wide Service is expanding. It is exciting times in Endoscopy with increased demand for our services. Our team is continuously developing and the Trust wide service is growing to allow greater access locally for our patients.
An opportunities have arisen for enthusiastic, dedicated Band 5 Endoscopy Nurses to join the team. The post holders will be required to work Trust-wide across all sites if and when required. Post will also include weekend working and when competencies achieved, participation in the on-call rota for the service is required.
There are various hours available up to The post holders main base will be at Wansbeck General Hospital.
The successful post holder must be able to role model compassionate and have an inclusive team work ethos to shape the creation of a collective team work culture within the Trust.
Main duties of the job
1. Reporting to the Endoscopy Unit Managers and Endoscopy Junior Sisters / Charge Nurse, the individual will be responsible for; holistic patient care from admission to discharge; provide cross-site cover as required; provide and plan nursing care, and provide effective communication across the multi-disciplinary team.
2. In addition, a contribution to the attainment of JAG Accreditation within the Endoscopy Unit will be expected.
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 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
3. To assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care working as a member of the ward team under the direction of the Ward Manager
4. 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.
5. To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct
6. To be responsible for all nursing care standards and to maintain high clinical standards
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 leadershipstyle 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.
Please note wereservetherightto close this vacancy prior totheclosing date oncetherequired number of suitable applications have been received.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
8. 1st Level live NMC registered Nurse
9. 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).
Desirable
10. PP126/7
11. D32/33
12. Post Registration qualification in specialty
13. Diploma/degree in nursing