Deputy Ward Manager

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Emergency Department at the Northumbria Hospital. We are looking to appoint a Band 6 Nurse on a permanent basis to join our team. The Emergency Department 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.,

• 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.
  
  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.