Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Deputy Ward Manager
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Department Leader Opportunity
We are looking for a department leader to join our dual purpose outpatient and medical day case unit at Berwick Infirmary.
We hold multiple clinics of varied specialties within our OPD department Monday to Friday. Due to this variety, this enables you to work with a very diverse team of staff from across the organisation teams.
Our medical day case unit provides treatment locally for patients requiring drug infusions, venesection, and blood transfusion, etc. We work hard to ensure that patients can have their treatments locally, bringing in new treatments with the support of specialist teams. This is a unique post as staff cover both OPD and medical day case areas with a huge variety of treatments and development of a unique skill set.
This is an exciting time to join our team as we prepare to move into our new hospital with the development of additional services and treatments.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
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Responsibilities
- Manage the treatment and care of patients who attend our nurse led medical day case unit, liaising with specialty teams to provide safe and efficient care.
- Responsible for the daily running of the outpatient department, ensuring safe staffing levels and supporting staff on a daily basis.
- Working closely with multiple teams, providing education and support to the local team to allow us to provide safe care in a rural location.
- Provide highest standards of clinical practice and act as a role model to others.
- Adapting to the changing environment and supporting the team during service development and quality improvement initiatives.
- Control workload and manage duties by identifying networks of support for yourself and other employees.
- Delegates to member of the team.
About Us
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.
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Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Dawn Matthews
- Job Title: Department manager
- Email Address: dawn.matthews@nhct.nhs.uk
- Telephone Number: 07814641334
Please get in touch to arrange a department visit or for further discussion regarding the role and responsibilities.
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