Staff Nurse

Staff Nurse

The closing date is 29 September 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the nursing team on Ward 2 at Hexham General Hospital.

Are you a motivated and compassionate Nurse looking to take the next step in your career?

Ward 2 at Hexham General Hospital is seeking an enthusiastic Band 5 Nurse to join our dedicated and friendly team. No two days are the same on our dynamic ward, and we offer a supportive environment where you can develop your clinical skills, contribute to outstanding patient care, and grow as part of the Northumbria family.

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.

Main duties of the job

The ward operates an internal rotation rota system which includes a range of shift patterns to suit most needs. We have a friendly and flexible team of nurses with good retention of staff.

To provide nursing care to a caseload of patients and to provide verbal and written handovers to nursing colleagues and the multidisciplinary team.

When responsible for the ward/department to ensure that individualised programmes of care are formulated and carried out fully for each patient on the ward/department (up to 26 patients in a ward area).

Providing day to day care duties to a 26 bedded unit.

Being able to work within a high pressured environment.

Being able to use all systems and document all care.

All nursing duties to be carried out in the scope of practice.

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, 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.

Job responsibilities

To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct. Work within NHCFT policies, procedures and guidelines to ensure high clinical standards. To contribute to all nursing care, providing care for people including those with complex needs. Working as a member of the nursing team under the direction of the Registered Nurse to provide and monitor care. To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

• Work with the MDT team to provide excellent care and safe and effective discharges.
• Follow ward objectives.
• Be open and honest.
• Be a valued team member.

Person Specification Qualifications

• 1st Level live NMC registered Nurse
• Evidence of qualification to undertake the supervision, teaching and assessing of students (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18 month period).
• PP126/7
• D32/33

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

£31,049 to £37,796 a year, pro rata per annum