Deputy ward manager | Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 16 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £38,682 - £46,580 per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 18 March 2026 |
| Location: | Hexham, NE461QJ |
| Company: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7786247/319-7786247RW |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our team in Ambulatory care/ Elderly Care Assessment Unit at Hexham. The department is a combination of the two specialties with patients often migrating between the two.
The Ambulatory care department sees a diverse caseload of patients from various specialities.
Patients attend as day cases for the administration of intravenous medication, blood transfusions, venesections, specialised blood tests and ambulatory care pathways.
The Elderly Care Assessment Unit sees patients predominantly over the age of 65 and those with frailty and multiple co-morbidities.
Referrals are made from a variety of sources (NEAS/Community paramedics/GP's/UTC) and accepted same day or by appointment.
Patients attend for falls and syncope assessment on a pre planned basis.
The department facilitates a pathway for hospital admission for frail elderly patients that can be medically managed locally and avoiding A&E.
The successful candidate must be an innovative thinker and be committed to developing their skills and knowledge in all areas of relevant clinical practice.
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
As senior nurse it is expected that you will be able to, and take responsibility for:
• Provide high quality person centred care.
• Maintain contemporary, relevant knowledge to underpin clinical practice.
• Rotate between the different clinical areas within the department, taking charge in the absence of department manager.
• Coordinate staff to ensure the department functions efficiently.
• Take appropriate steps to manage staff sickness/shortages to ensure that disruption to the department is minimal.
• Manage incident reports.
• Deal with concerns and complaints. • Coordinate a caseload of patients within Ambulatory care to:
• Ensure that patients receive appointments/treatments at appropriate intervals.
• Liaise with HCP's from other specialities to ensure that prescriptions and drugs are available for administration.
• Oversee the safe administration of medications in accordance with trust policy.
• Supervise junior staff and offer suitable advice and guidance.
• Be able to use relevant IT systems to inform safe and effective care.
• Complete electronic discharge summaries.
• Accept and triage telephone and electronic referrals
• Arrange and review in a timely fashion dependent on clinical need.
• Liaise with Patient Flow team and the wider MDT to ensure that patients are assessed and treated efficiently allowing seamless flow throughout the department.
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, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any 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? Work 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 it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
• 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 Monday 2 Mar 2026