Staff Nurse

Transformation Unit; Shiremoor; Remote; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous annual leave

NHS pension scheme

Staff well-being programme

Family-friendly working arrangements

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in England is seeking a Band 5 Staff Nurse to join the Emergency Department. The role offers flexible working patterns including days, nights, and weekends, with a focus on high-quality emergency care from triage through resuscitation.

You will be supported by a comprehensive training programme and a strong staff well-being ethos. The post requires 1st Level live NMC registration, and the ability to supervise and teach students within the expected

Qualifications

• NMC registration required to practise in England.
• Evidence of supervision, teaching and assessing students within 18 months.

Responsibilities

• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care as a ward team member under the Ward Manager.
• Coordinate nursing services in the ward/dept in the absence of senior staff.
• Exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
• Maintain high clinical standards of nursing care.
• Role model compassionate and inclusive leadership to promote learning and quality improvement.

Skills

NMC registration

Student supervision

Education

First Level live NMC registered Nurse

Job description

Main area Emergency Care Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (Full time and part time hours available) Job ref 319-8253768KD-HAS

Employer Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital Town Cramlington Salary £32,073 - £39,043 pro rata per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 18/11/2026 23:59

Staff Nurse

Band 5

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.

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

Our Emergency Department is seeking Band 5 Staff Nurses to join the A&E team.

Would you like the opportunity to join our Northumbria Family and work in our fast paced Emergency Department where two days are never the same? Learn new skills or develop the skills you already have to provide high quality care to patients from triage to resuscitation?

We are looking for motivated and enthusiastic nurses who have a passion for patient assessment and Emergency Care provision.

We have an excellent staff training programme and look forward to new staff embracing the development and skills our Emergency Department has to offer. We work a pattern of days, nights and weekends to provide excellent care to our Emergency patients. We have a wide range of skills and experience within our team which make it the perfect environment to develop your skills through hands on experience and challenges!

Main duties of the job

• Providing Emergency Care to the patients of North Tyneside, Northumberland and Beyond.
• Duties include initiating safe and high quality care, continuing assessments of acutely unwell patients and resuscitation of patients.

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.

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 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 / 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

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.

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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