Bank Community Staff Nurse

Northumbria Group.; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Competitive pay

Paid annual leave

Training programs

Free uniform

Lease car

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking reliable, enthusiastic Community Nurses to join our bank. We offer flexible hours around other commitments across Northumberland and North Tyneside Community Nursing Service.

Contract is bank, 0 hours per week. Salary £32,073 - £39,043 pro rata per annum, with enhanced pay for unsociable hours and a range of staff benefits including annual leave and pension scheme.

Qualifications

• Experience of working without direct supervision in a health care environment.
• Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools.
• Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods.

Responsibilities

• To assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care
• 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 to promote learning and quality improvement across teams.

Skills

Experience of working without direct监督

Coaching and mentoring practices

Quality improvement tools and methods

Education

NMC Part 1 Registration

Diploma/Degree level clinical qualifications

Preceptorship programme within first year

Supervision/teaching qualification evidence

Job description

Main area Bank Community Nurses Grade Band 5 Contract Bank Hours Flexible working - 0 hours per week (Ad hoc as and when) Job ref 319-8374990GH

Site Trust Wide Town Cobalt Salary £32,073 - £39,043 Pro rata, Per Annum Salary period Yearly Closing 16/11/2026 23:59

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). 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 and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

• Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
• Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
• A range of flexible working opportunities
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
• Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
• Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals to care for our Trust family's children, they offer care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years. There are a number of funding options run by the government to help working parents, including Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare.

Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It’s open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care.

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts–rated 'outstanding' overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise—a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

Job overview

We require reliable, enthusiastic and motivated Community Nurses to join our bank who are looking to work hours around their other commitments, within Northumberland and North Tyneside Community Nursing Service.

In return you will can offer you:

• · Flexible hours; choose when and where you want to work
• · Competitive pay rates; including enhanced pay for unsociable hours
• · Paid annual leave
• · A fast-track recruitment process if you move to a substantive role
• · Opportunities to work in different wards and departments, including community, dental and specialist services
• · Access to Services, such as those provided by our Staff Wellbeing Team
• · Ability to book your shifts from home using our online portal
• · Option to block-book shifts in a set period
• · SMS notifications of shift availability
• · Access to staff newsletters and bulletins
• · Eligible for various local and national discounts which are available to NHS staff
• · Free uniform, where applicable

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

There are various bank shifts available, covering a range of shifts and community locations.

The full day shifts are 08.30 hrs to 17.00hrs but also offer short shifts. They are predominantly available Monday to Friday but there could be opportunities to undertake the same hours on a weekend or bank holiday if desired. With bank you can pick and choose which shifts suit you.

The role is to provide high standards of care to patients. You will need to embrace our trust values, demonstrate excellent communication skills, and have a flexible approach to your work. Duties include:

• To assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care
• 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 use SystmOne computerised patient record and any successful applicants would be given training to enable them to use the system.

Working for our organisation

This is a great opportunity to work in a flexible way with one of the country’s top performing trusts, twice rated 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission.

Northumbria Healthcare covers a large geographical area, providing safe and high-quality care in both hospital and community settings. As such we need to be able to respond quickly to meet demands caused by an increase in patient activity, staff holidays or illness.

This is where our staff bank plays a vital role, providing service support 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year. The bank is not just for doctors and nurses, we cater for all staff groups including AHPS, nursing support roles, administrative staff, facilities staff and more.

There are many reasons why people join the staff bank, some to supplement earnings, or to work around commitments such as childcare or studying, while others may wish to develop their skills and work experience. So, if having the flexibility to pick and choose your hours is important, then this may be your opportunity.

To find out more about the benefits of working on the bank visit our website www.yournorthumbriacareer.co.uk/staff-bank

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The role is to provide high standards of care to patients. You will need to embrace our trust values, demonstrate excellent communication skills, and have a flexible approach to your work. Duties include:

• To assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care
• 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

Experience & Knowledge

• Experience of working without direct supervised in a health care environment
• Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
• Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods

Other Requirements

• It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role.

Qualifications

• State Registration on Part 1 of the 3 part NMC register
• Additional clinical qualifications or equivalent derived through experience at diploma / degree level if experienced
• Newly qualified staff will be required to undertake the Trust preceptorship programme within the first year in post
• 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).

Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and those who have been looked after by the care system as a child or young person (for example, in foster care, children's homes, kinship or local authority care) who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.

Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.

Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!

Certificate of Sponsorship

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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