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

We are looking to recruit a Band 5 staff nurse to work within Respiratory Medicine on Ward 7 at Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital.

If you are a motivated and enthusiastic staff nurse then why not come and join our Team.

This post is fully rotational between day and night shift.

The post is a full time vacancy but we welcome those seeking part time employment.

Please note, we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications has been received.

Respiratory Medicine is currently provided on 2 wards within the hospital, Ward 7 is a 30 bedded unit which meets the needs of adult patients requiring in hospital treatment for a range of respiratory conditions. We work closely with the Respiratory Support Unit which is based on Ward 12. We work as part of an MDT which includes our Respiratory Specialist Nurses and Respiratory Physiotherapists.

We offer successful candidates:

• Learning opportunities (inc Respiratory essentials)

• Friendly and supportive workplace

• Extensive and varied clinical experience and continued professional development

Gaining experience within the respiratory team could enhance progression within the service into leadership roles or a route to other specialist roles, such as respiratory specialist nursing.

You should have excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills and be able to work effectively as a member of a MDT.

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.

• 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

• (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

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