Deputy Ward Manager | Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 21 Ionawr 2026 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £38,682 - £46,580 per annum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 20 Chwefror 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Cramlington, NE23 6NZ |
| Cwmni: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7738340/319-7738340PM |
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An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Emergency Department at the Northumbria Hospital. We are looking to appoint a Band 6 Nurse on a secondment or 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.
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.
Please ensure you have prior approval from your current line manager, that a secondment agreement can be facilitated within your current department before applying
• To provide nursing care to a case load of patients and to provide verbal and written handovers to nursing colleagues and the multi-disciplinary team.
• Support the Ward Manager in her accountability for the management of staff and budgets.
• To provide nursing care to an advanced level.
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 assume responsibility for the devolved management of a ward/department, including the assessment of care needs, the implementation of evidence based programme of care in the
absence of the Ward Manager.
• To supervise, support and educate junior members of the team.
• To provide senior nurse site management cover.
• To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
• To be responsibility for all nursing care standards and to maintain high clinical standards.
• To act as team leader and co-ordinate the multi-disciplinary care of a group of patients.
• 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 Tuesday 3 Feb 2026