Bank Staff Nurse | Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 03 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £28,407 - £34,581 pro rata per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 May 2024 |
| Location: | North Shields, NE27 0QJ |
| Company: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6189201/319-6189201AZ |
Summary
We require reliable, enthusiastic and motivated Staff Nurses to join our bank. to work in our acute medical wards, surgical wards, mental health wards and community nursing. In return we will offer you:
• Flexible hours; choose when and where you want to work
• Competitive pay rates; including enhanced pay for unsociable hours
• Paid annual leave
• NHS pension scheme
• A fast-track recruitment process if you move to a substantive role
• Opportunities to work in different wards and departments, including community, dental and specialist services
• Access to Services, such as those provided by our Staff Wellbeing Team
• Ability to book your shifts from home using our online portal
• Option to block-book shifts in a set period
• SMS notifications of shift availability
• Access to staff newsletters and bulletins
• Eligible for various local and national discounts which are available to NHS staff
• Free uniform, where applicable
To find out more about the benefits of working on the bank visit our website www.yournorthumbriacareer.co.uk/staff-bank
There are bank assignments all around the Trust, including our community settings in Haltwhistle, Berwick, Alnwick, Morpeth, Rothbury, Blyth as well as our main hospitals in Hexham, Ashington, North Tyneside and Cramlington. We require bank adult and children's nurses to work in medical and surgical wards and also require bank mental health and community nurses.
We have a range of shifts 7 days per week including day shifts, early shifts , late shifts , twilight, nights and weekends. With bank you can pick and choose shifts which suit you.
The role is to provide high standards of care to patients accessing our services. You will need to embrace our trust values, demonstrate excellent communication skills, with a flexible approach to your work.
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 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 Wednesday 17 Apr 2024
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