Deputy Ward Manager Northumbria Healthcare – NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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Full time
Location: Cramlington
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An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Emergency Department at the Northumbria Hospital. We are looking to appoint Band 6 Nurses to join our team. The ED 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.

Key Responsibilities:

To assume responsibility for the devolved management of a ward/department, including the assessment of care needs, the implementation of evidence-based programmes 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 responsible 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. To assess, prioritise, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care and to work as a member of the Emergency Care Team. To support, contribute and assist in the implementation of change. To be responsible and accountable for the co-ordination, management and allocation of staff, patients and resources within the department on a regular basis. To evaluate and where necessary change interventions, allocation of staff or planned activities as the department determines.

These posts will be rotational between day/night shift and cover seven days a week.

This advert closes on Sunday 15 Dec 2024. Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme Disability Confident About Disability Confident: A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.

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