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Main area
Cardiology
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
30 hours per week
Job ref
319-6411549MH
Employer
Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital
Town
Cramlington
Salary
£35,392 - £42,618 pro rata per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
07/08/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust logo

Deputy Ward Manager

NHS AfC: Band 6

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022).  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 and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

  • Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
  • Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
  • A range of flexible working opportunities
  • Generous annual leave and pension scheme
  • Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
  • Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
  • On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
  • Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy. 

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

 

 

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has become available to join the Nursing team on Ward 10 at the Northumbria Specialist Hospital.  The post will provide the successful applicant the opportunity to develop the leadership and clinical skills within Cardiology and enhance their knowledge within the speciality. 

Main duties of the job

An opportunity  has become available for a Band 6 Deputy Ward Manager post on Ward 10 at the Northumbria Specialist Care Hospital. Ward 10 is a combined cardiology admission ward which incorporates 6 level 2 CCU beds.

The successful applicant will be responsible for unit co-ordination, providing high quality patient care and assuming responsibility for operational services in the absence of the ward manager. You will be expected to take charge of Ward 10/CCU on a rotational basis which includes days and night shifts

The post holder will be responsible for patient management alongside patient care. 

Working for our organisation

We manage four major hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck, Cramlington 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 for one of the best performing organisations in England/work in an organisation that supports staff and focuses on staff experience as much as 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. Sounds 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!

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To assume responsibility for the devolved management of the ward/department including the assessment of care needs, the implementation of evidence based care in the absence of the ward manager.

To supervise, support and educate junior members of the team. 

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 a 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 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. 

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Previous post registration experience
  • Experience of relevant speciality
  • Evidence of practice development
  • Experience of co-ordinating a team

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • First level live NMC Registered Nurse
  • Mentorship/Practice assessor qualification (essential requirement for the post)
  • PP126/127 or AC631 or D32/33 or A1 or equivalent
Desirable criteria
  • Leadership course
  • Diploma/degree in nursing
  • Management course
  • Qualification in specialty

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardDisability confident employerCare quality commission - OutstandingStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Better Health at Work Award - Maintaining ExcellenceHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Alison Savage
Job title
Ward Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0191 6072504
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