Junior Sister/Charge Nurse

Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Cramlington; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS organization renowned for its commitment to quality and innovation. This role in the Critical Care unit offers the chance to make a significant impact on patient care. You will coordinate nursing care, mentor staff, and contribute to clinical practice development. With a focus on staff well-being and professional growth, this position provides a supportive environment for career advancement. Embrace the opportunity to work in a progressive unit that values compassionate leadership and teamwork, all while enjoying the benefits of a vibrant community and a fulfilling work-life balance.

Benefits

Extensive health and well-being programme

Flexible working opportunities

Generous annual leave

Pension scheme

Access to lease car scheme

Professional development training programmes

On-site nursery places

Savings scheme via salary sacrifice

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with current NMC registration is essential.
• Specialized knowledge in Critical Care nursing required.
• Experience in teaching and assessing nursing staff is vital.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and organize staff to provide quality nursing care.
• Facilitate education and development for nursing staff.
• Provide specialist advice for multidisciplinary staff.

Skills

Critical Care Nursing

Patient Care

Leadership

Teaching and Assessing

Coaching and Mentoring

Education

Registered Nurse

Diploma/Degree in Nursing

Advanced/Intermediate Life Support Certificate

Relevant Teaching Qualification

Tools

ECDL

Job description

Site Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital Town Cramlington Salary £37,338 - £44,962 pro rata per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 14/05/2025 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
• On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
• Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

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

An exciting opportunity has arisen within Northumbria Critical Care. Northumbria Critical Care is 15 bedded Critical Care unit within a Specialist Emergency Care Hospital.

Critical care is a busy, progressive unit with a clear patient-centred focus. We have made a strong commitment to quality. The team have a strong emphasis on developing health care practice through ownership, research/evidence-based practices, commitment and multidisciplinary involvement.

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 co-ordinate and organise all staff within the department to provide quality nursing care and management for critical care unit.
• To share skills/knowledge with colleagues and learners.
• To contribute towards development within the critical care unit.
• Internal rotation day and night day

Working for our organisation

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, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide and facilitate quality nursing care to the critically ill patient
• Rostered to take charge regularly of department and deputise for team leader
• To facilitate the process of education and development of nursing and non-nursing staff within the team
• Provide specialist advice for multidisciplinary staff working within the unit and as an Outreach resource
• To contribute to the overall development of clinical practice within critical care
• To support Modern Matron and Senior Sisters in the effective management of resources and personnel issues over a 24 hr period
• 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

• A registered nurse on part 1 of the professional register, with current NMC registration
• Specialised knowledge and experience through appropriate qualification in Critical Care nursing
• Relevant teaching and assessing qualification to assist in cascading specialised skills/knowledge
• Advanced/Intermediate Life Support Certificate
• Diploma/Degree in Nursing
• 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)
• ECDL

Experience and knowledge

• Significant post registration experience in critical care.
• Professional knowledge acquired through substantial critical care experience
• Evidence of ongoing training and development.
• ALERT course
• Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
• Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
• Experience of working as a link nurse
• Experience of a train the trainer role

Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and 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.

Name Susan Johnson Job title Critical Care Department Manager Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 07855010790

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