Nursing Associate | Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen on ward 6 at the Northumbria. We require an enthusiastic, highly motivated Nurse Associate to join our team.

Ward 6 is a 19 bedded innovative and forward thinking Acute Elderly admissions unit. Patients are admitted via the Emergency Department to ward 6. There is a strong focus on multidisciplinary care to ensure safe and effective patient discharges or transfer to the appropriate place of care.
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.

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.

The main purpose of the role is to plan, implement and evaluate nursing care working as a member of the multidisciplinary team under the supervision of the ward manager.

You will also be responsible for the organizing and co-ordination of the nursing services and to maintain high clinical standards.

The successful post holder must be able to role model, and have compassionate and inclusive leadership, in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospital and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of nay 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? Working 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 isn't it, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!

• To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.


• Work within NHCFT policies, procedures and guidelines to ensure high clinical standards.


• To contribute to all nursing care, providing care for people including those with complex needs.


• Working as a member of the nursing team under the direction of the Registered Nurse to provide and monitor care.


• 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.
  
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