Staff Nurse

An exciting opportunity has arisen for highly motivated Staff Nurses to join our team, you will be: flexible, motivated, an excellent communicator and a team player. Led by the Ward Manager/Matron on our Nurse Practitioner-led ward, we are a fast paced surgical ward caring for elective patients and those who require further investigations/treatment following admission to The Northumbria Hospital. The ward provides holistic care for several surgical specialities including breast and reconstruction surgery, bariatric, upper and lower GI surgery as well as gynaecological surgery.

We collaborate with practitioners across other departments to ensure continuity in patient care such as Occupational Therapy, physio, specialist nurses, social work, medical staff, theatres/recovery and our other Trust hospital sites.

Full time or Part time hours would be considered

Please note, for Secondment roles before an application is submitted, please ensure you have received the appropriate approval and completed documentation required beforehand, as this may delay the process if an offer was to be made.

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

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 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.

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: Marsha Stephenson Job title: Ward manager Email address: ***email_hidden*** Telephone number: 0191 2934364