Staff Nurse | Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Ward 4 , Hexham General Hospital is a 30 bedded, single room unit. We provide medical care and rehabilitation for elderly care and patients post stroke.
Our team aim to provide safe and high quality care to all of our patients.
An opportunity has arisen for a band 5 staff nurse to join our team on ward 4.
The successful post holder must be able to role model compassionate and inclusive leadership.
The successful post holder will work as part of a large MDT to provide high quality, safe care to our patients.
An interest in stroke and elderly care is essential.
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 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.
- 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 advert closes on Tuesday 18 Feb 2025