Staff Nurse | Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Berwick-upon-Tweed; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Foundation Trust in Berwick-upon-Tweed is seeking a motivated registered nurse to join their innovative Care of the Elderly Ward. The role includes providing comprehensive nursing care, participating in multidisciplinary teamwork, and ensuring high clinical standards. Competitive candidates will have excellent communication skills and a commitment to staff development. This position involves rotational shifts covering days and nights throughout the week, including bank holidays.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a healthcare setting is desirable, but not essential.
• Commitment to multi-professional teamwork with excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide nursing care and handovers to colleagues and the multidisciplinary team.
• Ensure individualized care programs are formulated and executed for each patient.
• Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate nursing care under the direction of the Ward Manager.
• Organize and coordinate nursing services in the absence of senior staff.
• Maintain high clinical standards and accountability as per NMC guidelines.
• Role model inclusive leadership and promote team collaboration.

Skills

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Clinical care

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen on Ward 1 at Berwick we require an enthusiastic, highly motivated registered nurse to join our team.

We are in the process of building a new hospital within the town therefore Ward 1 is presently a 10 bedded innovative and forward thinking Care of the Elderly Ward specialising in rehabilitation. There is a strong focus on multi-disciplinary team working to ensure safe and effective care is delivered to our patients.

The successful candidate will be expected to work as part of a dynamic nursing team delivering all aspects of care to patients. Previous experience in a similar setting is desirable, but not essential. The post will be fully rotational day/night duty and cover seven days a week including bank holidays.

A wide range of clinical experience will be gained on this ward, with scope for staff development. You should be committed to working effectively as part of a multi-professional team and have excellent communication skills.

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.

We manage the Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital in Cramlington as well as 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, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country, leading in innovation and quality. Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust is one of the best performing NHS organisations in England that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients.

Responsibilities

• 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).
• 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.

This advert closes on Tuesday 23 Dec 2025