Staff Nurse

We are looking for an enthusiastic Staff Nurse to join the team in the Trauma and Orthopaedic Outpatient Department at Darlington Memorial Hospital.

Clinics run between 08.00-17.30 Monday to Friday and mornings only at the weekends. Our team comprises of Registered nurses, Health Care Assistants, Orthopaedic Consultants, Registrars and Physio Practitioners. Our service provides a mixture of fracture and elective clinics and we care for paediatric and adult patients. We work closely with the X-Ray department and the plaster room. We also run a dressings clinic for trauma and post operative patients each morining.

Main duties of the job

To provide and maintain a high standard of evidence based, patient centred care. To demonstrate good interpersonal skills and to develop practical skills required within the speciality, whist reflecting the philosophy of care.

To deliver patient care on a daily basis, using the systems in place in the department for a multi-disciplinary approach to patient-centred care delivery, which builds on the philosophy of greater involvement of patients and their relatives/carers by using the Trusts patient and public involvement strategy.

Experienced Band 5 post holders will also provide effective clinical and managerial leadership of the department, in the absence of the senior members of the team, which empowers staff to deliver patient centred evidenced based nursing care.

If you are being interviewed you must accept an interview slot in the system to continue, even if you have arranged with the manager

You must be able to produce ALL certificates stated essential in the person specification or you will not be able to complete pre-employment checks

We provide hospital services from two acute sites - Darlington Memorial Hospital and University Hospital of North Durham. We have a centre for planned care in Bishop Auckland and provide care from community hospitals in Chester-le-Street, Shotley Bridge, Barnard Castle, Sedgefield and Weardale as well as over 80 other community based settings and providing care in patients' homes.