Staff Nurse

at  Northumbria Healthcare NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

An opportunity has arisen within the Emergency Surgery and Elective Care Business unit with the development and extension of the Urology services within the Trust.
We are looking for a highly motivated band 5 staff nurse to join our team within the Urology diagnostic and treatment services. The positions will be based at Wansbeck but the successful candidates will be required to work across the Trust 3 main sites of North Tyneside, Hexham and Wansbeck.
You will be expected to show commitment, flexibility and good interpersonal skills to provide high standards or care for those patients accessing our services.
The hours of work will predominantly Monday to Friday, but evening and weekends will be required.
We are predominantly a nurse led service, with consultant cover daily. We encourage staff to complete training in advanced skills to enable them to plan, assess and care for patients, undergoing diagnostic investigations for both benign and malignant urological disease.

Assisting with diagnostic procedures
Administrating chemotherapy for the treatment of bladder cancer
Teaching patient’s intermittent self-catheterisation
Urinary flow studies
Candidates please note that full or part time will be considered for this post. This post will include across site working .
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 assess, plan, implement and evaluate pathways of care, under the supervision of department manager.
To be responsible for the organising and co-ordination of the nursing services in the department in the absence of senior staff on a regular basis.
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 culture within the Trust