Job summary
- Main area
- Cardiology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-6253184SO-A
- 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 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/07/2024 23:59
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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
Our Cardiology department provides the ideal opportunity for talented nurses with a commitment to delivering a high standard of patient care. We are seeking an experienced catheter lab nurse with a strong clinical background who is enthusiastic to join our cardiology team.
The nursing team rotate through the cardiac catheter lab, recovery area and pre assessment whilst supporting the overall needs of the service when required. We have a varied patient group, from elective day cases to emergency inpatients requiring devices such as pacemakers and Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs). We are also very excited to say we are in the planning stage of expanding our services to incorporate percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).
The elective service runs Monday to Friday and focuses on diagnostic angiography and electro-physiology procedures. The nurse will be asked to undertake the coordinator role to facilitate effective patient flow through the catheter lab.
The nurse will proactively lead and engage in the education and development of colleagues and self within the Cardiology setting.
Previous applicants need not apply.
Main duties of the job
1. Clinical responsibility
- To care for patients undergoing a procedure in the catheter lab.
- Takes history from patients during pre assessment
- Has specific catheter lab experience
- To be the scrub nurse and support the operator during cardiac procedures.
Responsibility to the patient
- Maintain and protect the safety, confidentiality and dignity of the patient in the recovery area
- Experience with post procedure care/complications and management
Communication
- Maintain clear communications with all members of the multi disciplinary catheter lab team
- Maintain close working relations with ward/CCU staff to facilitate emergency cases
Leadership
- Support staff with training and appraisals
- Leadership/coordinator role within the lab to ensure efficiency
- Assist in completion of risk assessments ensuring safe practice within the unit
- Supporting junior staff completing core catheter lab competencies
Working for our organisation
We manage three other major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick Upon 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 Specialist Emergency Care Hospital at Northumbria is 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 breath 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? 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To assume responsibility for the management of the unit in the absence of the Ward Manager
- 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 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 and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Previous post registration experience.
- Experience of relevant speciality.
- Evidence of change management in ward/department area.
- Evidence of practice development.
Essential/Desirable
Essential criteria
- First level NMC Registered Nurse
- Mentorship qualification or relevant equivalent qualification (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18mth period)
- Previous Cath Lab nursing experience
Desirable criteria
- Degree in nursing/ health studies or equivalent experience/training
- Leadership/management course
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Alison Savage
- Job title
- Ward manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 607 2504
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