Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Community Staff Nurse
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Exciting Opportunity for a Staff Nurse in District Nursing Service
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic staff nurse to join the District Nursing Service in Southeast and Central Northumberland. Our bases include: Cramlington, Ashington, Blyth, Lynemouth, Bedlington, and Newbiggin.
About the Role
This is a fantastic opportunity to become a team member in an exciting service committed to providing patient-centred care to patients in their own homes, residential care settings, and in clinics. We are keen to provide our staff with development opportunities to enhance their skills, knowledge, and career progression within the District Nursing Service, while providing high-quality and safe service in line with the Trust Values.
Key Responsibilities
- Autonomy and Team Work: Community staff nurses work autonomously and as part of a team, reporting directly to their line manager, the community nursing team lead.
- Care Planning: Assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating care for a diverse group of patients with a wide range of conditions and health needs.
- Health and Social Care Programmes: The development and delivery of programmes of health and social care.
- Terminal Illness Care: The delivery of care and support to patients with a terminal illness and their families, including the provision of emotional and bereavement support.
- Skilled Nursing Care: The performance of skilled nursing care including aspects of assessment, wound management, palliative care, and catheterisation.
- Diagnostic Tests: Performance of diagnostic tests such as Ankle Brachial Pressure Index using Doppler and the interpretation of the results to decide further courses of action.
- Fine Dexterity Procedures: Performance of procedures which require fine dexterity and skill such as venepuncture, drug administration by injection, and the removal of sutures.
- Communication: Interpretation of results and the communication of these to patients, e.g., blood glucose estimation. Explaining aspects of care to patients and carers allowing the opportunity to ask questions and raise concerns.
- Professional Practice: Maintenance and promotion of high standards of professional practice including the sharing of approaches and experience with others.
- Duty of Care: Maintain a duty of care to patients, carers, and colleagues through the exercise of personal and professional accountability.
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About Northumbria Healthcare
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.
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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!
Application Information
Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Contact Information
For further details/informal visits, contact:
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Lyndsey Wilkinson, Clinical Neighbourhood Matron
- Email: Lyndsey.Wilkinson@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk
- Telephone: 07500552961
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Elaine Hoggins, Clinical Neighbourhood Matron
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Leigh McCabe, Clinical Neighbourhood Matron
- Telephone: 07815496896
- Email: Leigh.McCabe@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk
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