Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Deputy Ward Manager
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Role Overview
To assume responsibility for the management of Hyper Acute Stroke Unit including the assessment of care needs, the implementation of evidence-based programme of care in the absence of the Ward Manager.
Key Responsibilities
- Supervise, support, and educate junior members of the team.
- Act as a role model to your team.
- Ensure and maintain patient, staff, and visitor safety.
- Hold the site bleep responsibility.
- Ensure team and patient safety, including safeguarding.
- Contribute to ward assurance and audit.
- Work with the wider MDT to ensure high standards of effective patient care.
- Ensure safe staffing levels and contribute to off-duty.
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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.
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 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! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.
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Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Charlyn Lawton
- Job Title: Ward Manager
- Email Address: charlyn.lawton@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk
- Telephone Number: 0191 607 2463
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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