We are looking to recruit a Staff Nurse who wants to work in a busy, dynamic and friendly Outpatient Department to deliver a modern-day outpatients service.
We are looking for a motivated and flexible staff nurse to join our Outpatient team, where you will have the opportunity to develop your leadership skills, clinic management and work autonomously in our nurse led dressing clinics. Outpatients at Northumbria provides staff the opportunity to use IT and technology to support patient pathways in new and innovative ways.
We work across multiple Outpatients areas providing a seven-day service. You will also be required to support and manage trauma and Orthopaedics clinics based at our specialist emergency hospital, and work within Outpatient departments.
We will provide a supportive learning environment and encourage you with your personal and professional development.
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.
Responsibilities include:
1. To assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care working as a member of the department team under the direction of the Ward Manager and in their absence.
2. To provide effective clinic management.
3. To provide a nurse led dressing clinic service working autonomously on a regular basis.
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 provide modern day nursing to our patient group in using IT in clinics and Virtual nursing.
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.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Saj Ahmed
Job title: OPD Manager
Email address: saj.ahmed@nhct.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 07815506036
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