An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Emergency Department at the Northumbria Hospital. We are looking to appoint Band 6 Nurses to join our team. The ED is a fast paced environment with a focus on quality improvement and collaborative team working. The department comprises all aspects of emergency care from triage, majors, minors and care of those requiring resuscitation.

We are looking for experienced candidates committed to ensuring safe and high-quality care is delivered to our patients, as well as being a role model and supporting and teaching our junior workforce. There is a strong focus on multidisciplinary team working, to ensure safe and timely patient discharges or transfers to appropriate care settings.

As part of this role you will be required to coordinate the department, supported by senior band 7 nurses.

These posts will be rotational between day/night shift and cover seven days a week.

Main duties of the job

• To assume responsibility for the devolved management of a ward/department, including the assessment of care needs, the implementation of evidence based programme of care in the absence of the Ward Manager.
• To supervise, support and educate junior members of the team.
• To provide senior nurse site management cover.
• To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
• To be responsibility for all nursing care standards and to maintain high clinical standards.
• To act as team leader and co-ordinate the multi-disciplinary care of a group of patients.
• 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 promoteownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

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, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? 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, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.

Job description

Job responsibilities

• To assess, prioritise, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care and to work as a member of the Emergency Care Team.
• 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 support, contribute and assist in the implementation of change.
• To be responsible and accountable for the co-ordination, management and allocation of staff, patients and resources within the department on a regular basis.
• To evaluate and where necessary change interventions, allocation of staff or planned activities as the department determines.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• First level live NMC Registered Nurse or Registered Mental Nurse.
• Mentorship Qualification or relevant equivalent qualification (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18 month period).

Desirable

• Leadership course.
• Management course
• Qualification in specialty

Employer details

Employer name

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital

Northumbria Way

Cramlington

NE23 6NZ

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