Staff Nurse | Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for a highly motivated individual to work within our 17 bedded ward caring for patients suffering from a multitude of ailments.

We take patients requiring rehabilitation from surgery, illness, falls etc.

We also care for many patients requiring palliative care, symptom management and end of life care.

- 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/dept 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, 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.

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