Staff Nurse | Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 18 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £31,049 - £37,796 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 January 2026 |
| Location: | Hexham, NE46 1QJ |
| Company: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7670297/319-7670297JA |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the nursing team on Ward 2 at Hexham General Hospital
Are you a motivated and compassionate Nurse looking to take the next step in your career?
Do you want to be part of a diverse team when no two days are the same?
Ward 2 at Hexham General Hospital is seeking an enthusiastic Band 5 Nurse to join our dedicated and friendly team. No two days are the same on our dynamic ward, and we offer a supportive environment where you can develop your clinical skills, contribute to outstanding patient care, and grow as part of the Northumbria family.
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.
The ward operates an internal rotation rota system which includes a range of shift patterns to suit most needs. We have a friendly and flexible team of nurses with good retention of staff.
To provide nursing care to a caseload of patients and to provide verbal and written handovers to nursing colleagues and the multi disciplinary team and using the computer with the trust clinical programs.
When responsible for the ward/department to ensure that individualised programmes of care are formulated and carried out fully for each patient on the ward/department (up to 26 patients in a ward area).
Providing day to day care duties to a 26 bedded unit.
Being proactive in MDT and Discharge approach.
Being able to work within high pressured environment.
Being able to use all systems and document all care.
All nursing duties to be carried out in scope of practice.
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 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.
To work within the MDT team to provide excellent care and safe and effective Discharges. To follow ward objectives. To be open and honest and a valued team member.
This advert closes on Thursday 1 Jan 2026