Staff Nurse

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Cramlington; Sur place; GBP 32 000 - 39 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Staff Nurse to join the critical care team. The role focuses on delivering gold-standard care to critically ill patients, with independence and leadership duties as a role model and advocate for holistic patient care.

Strong communication and commitment to ongoing development are essential. The post supports a busy critical care environment across trust hospitals, with fixed-term 12-month duration and pro rata salary between £32,073 and

Qualifications

• Knowledge of coaching and mentoring practices and tools.
• Knowledge of quality improvement tools, techniques and methods.
• NMC registration as a practising nurse.

Responsabilités

• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate holistic nursing care for critically ill patients.
• Support the Ward Manager and coordinate nursing services on the ward/dept.
• Maintain high clinical standards and role-model compassionate leadership.
• Provide nursing care to a caseload and handovers to the team and MDT.
• Ensure individualised care plans for up to 30 patients per ward.

Connaissances

Coaching and mentoring practices

Quality improvement tools

Formation

NMC registered Nurse

Supervision/teaching qualification (essential)

Description du poste

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Staff Nurse

The closing date is 16 November 2026

We are looking for a staff nurse to work in critical care who has the drive to deliver gold standard care to critically ill patients as part of a team. You should also has the ability to work independently and act as a role model for others, whilst acting as an advocate for holistic patient care. The successful candidate will demonstrate excellent communication skills and be driven to share learned knowledge with others whilst committing to continuous self development.

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 be responsible for assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of holistic patient care to a high standard of critically ill patients.
• To contribute to the overall development of clinical practice within critical care.
• To support senior staff in the effective management of resources.
• 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 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.

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 acollective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistentleadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching topromote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working andcollaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

Person Specification

Qualifications / Professional Registration

• 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 and knowledge

• 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

Address

Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital

£32,073 to £39,043 a yearpro rata per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Reference number

319-8319126SA-HAS

Job locations

Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital