Staff Nurse

NHS; Town of Berwick; On-site; CAD 57,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider is seeking a dedicated Staff Nurse for their innovative Care of the Elderly Ward in Berwick. The successful candidate will provide essential nursing care and work collaboratively within a dynamic team. This role demands compassion, excellent communication skills, and a commitment to high clinical standards. Candidates should have NMC registration and experience in similar settings is preferred. Competitive salary offered between £31,049 to £37,796 depending on experience.

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with NMC certification required.
• Experience in nursing care, preferably in elderly care.
• Knowledge of coaching and mentoring practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide nursing care and handovers to team.
• Coordinate nursing services in absence of senior staff.
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care.

Skills

NMC registered Nurse

Coaching and mentoring

Quality improvement techniques

Education

1st Level live NMC registered Nurse

Qualification for supervision, teaching, and assessing students

Job description

Go back Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Staff Nurse

The closing date is 23 December 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen on Ward 1 at Berwick we require an enthusiastic, highly motivated registered nurse to join our team.

We are in the process of building a new hospital within the town therefore Ward 1 is presently a 10 bedded innovative and forward thinking Care of the Elderly Ward specialising in rehabilitation. There is a strong focus on multi-disciplinary team working to ensure safe and effective care is delivered to our patients.

The successful candidate will be expected to work as part of a dynamic nursing team delivering all aspects of care to patients. Previous experience in a similar setting is desirable, but not essential. The post will be fully rotational day/night duty and cover seven days a week including bank holidays.

A wide range of clinical experience will be gained on this ward, with scope for staff development. You should be committed to working effectively as part of a multi-professional team and have excellent communication skills.

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.

Main duties of the job

• To provide nursing care to a caseload of patients and to provide verbal and written handovers to nursing colleagues and the multi disciplinary team.
• When responsible for the ward/dept to ensure that individualised programmes of care are formulated and carried out fully for each patient on the ward/dept (up to 30 patients in a ward area).

About us

We manage the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital in Cramlington as well as 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. Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust is one of the best performing NHS organisations in England that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients.

Job responsibilities

• 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• 1st Level live NMC registered Nurse
• Evidence of qualification to undertake the supervision, teaching and assessing of students (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18 month period).
• PP126/7
• D32/33

Experience

• Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
• Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

£31,049 to £37,796 a yearpro rata per annum