Job overview

 Band 5 Nurse, 37.5 hours per week

The successful applicant must demonstrate skills in all aspects of working in a busy department.

Ensure that the organisation and leadership of nursing and midwifery services supports the delivery of the highest standards of patient care in the pursuance of the Trust’s objectives. The core nursing team is responsible for ensuring that effective systems of work are in place to ensure the safe delivery of evidence based patient care. Support effective patient flows and management of resources in the allocated clinical area in the Trust.

The successful applicant will have a flexible approach to working hours to ensure that we provide a consistent service to our patients across the services we support.

Our values are shared across North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust & NHS North Cumbria Clinical Commissioning Group.

They are:

•  Kindness - Kindness and compassion cost nothing, yet accomplish a great deal

•  Respect - We are respectful to everyone and are open, honest and fair - respect behaviours

•  Ambition - We set goals to achieve the best for our patients, teams, organisation and our partners
   
• Collaboration - We are stronger and better working together with and for our patients

Main duties of the job

Working in all areas of the department and being able to:

• Take charge of the ward / unit where needed,  prioritise and allocate work to other staff as appropriate.
• Act as a clinical supervisor and preceptor as agreed with the Ward Manager.
• Provide excellent standards of care.
• Be aware of budgetary implications in relation to decisions.
• Participate in 15 steps audit and improvement plans.

Working for our organisation

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding hospital and health services to half a million people. Established on 1st October 2019, the Trust is creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout north Cumbria and beyond. We’re responsible for delivering over 70 services across 15 main locations and we employ more than 6,500 members of staff.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of ‘safe, high quality care every time’.

• Being a clinically led organisation
• Quality and safety at the heart
• A positive patient experience every time
• A great place to work
• Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.