Staff Nurse

NHS; Cramlington; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Cramlington is seeking a Band 5 Staff Nurse for a 12-month fixed-term contract in their trauma orthopaedic ward. Responsibilities include delivering high-quality nursing care, coordinating services, and modeling compassionate leadership. The ideal candidate will be a registered nurse with strong communication and organizational skills. This is an excellent opportunity to develop within a dynamic team environment.

Qualifications

• Must be a registered nurse with evidence of qualifications for teaching.
• Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care.
• Commitment to maintaining high clinical standards and accountability.

Responsibilities

• Assess and provide nursing care as part of the ward team.
• Organize nursing services in absence of senior staff.
• Model compassionate leadership and drive team collaboration.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Teamwork and collaboration

Organizational skills

Leadership qualities

Education

1st Level live NMC registered Nurse

Qualification for supervision and teaching

Job description

Overview

Go back Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Emergency Surgery and Elective Care Business unit on Ward 1 at the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital (NSECH). We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, well-motivated Band 5 Staff Nurse to join our team on Ward 1 on a 12 month fixed term contract to cover maternity leave.

Ward 1 is a 30 bed emergency trauma orthopaedic ward which is primarily responsible for trauma orthopaedic admissions originating in the Emergency department, transfers from outpatient clinics, other wards at NSECH and any other wards within the trust where patients require a specialist orthopaedic review which requires surgical intervention or care. High risk elective orthopaedic surgery is also carried out on this site.

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.

"Please note, for Secondment roles before an application is submitted, please ensure you have received the appropriate approval and completed documentation required beforehand, as this may delay the process if an offer was to be made."

Main duties of the job

This busy trauma unit strives to deliver high quality, holistic care to all our patients. We pride ourselves on the adaptability of our team to meet the challenges that trauma brings. Within orthopaedics there are huge opportunities to learn and develop skills at all levels.

The trauma unit continues to be involved with the Hip Fracture Quality Improvement Programme (HIP QIP) which aims to provide continuity of care to all fractured neck of femur patients through a number of different measures using best practice. This has been a successful programme and we have collaborated with other Trusts to spread the success of what HIP QIP has achieved.

You will be expected to provide high standards of care to those patients accessing our services. You should demonstrate excellent communication skills and have a flexible approach to your work.

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 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

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