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Staff Nurse

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Wallsend, NE27 0QJ £32,073 – £39,043 a year Fixed-Term Posted 26 August 2026 Apply by 9 September 2026

Home Office register entry: Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne

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Closest occupation match: SOC 2237, Other registered nursing professionals. Pay for this occupation is set by national pay scales (NHS bands), so no single Home Office going rate applies.

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Role description

Job summary

Winter brings unique challenges to our healthcare system. We are seeking resilient, adaptable, and motivated Registered Nurses to join our dedicated team during this peak period. This fixed-term role is designed to provide critical support Trust wide across our acute wards, ensuring our patients continue to receive safe, high-quality, and compassionate care throughout the winter months.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities Deliver evidence-based, patient-centered nursing care. Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care plans. Manage acute admissions and facilitate safe, timely discharges. Administer medications accurately in line with professional standards. Collaborate seamlessly with the wider multidisciplinary team (MDT). Respond calmly and effectively to changing clinical priorities.

About us

Northumbria Healthcare NHSCore Values Patients first: Delivering the right care, place, and time. Respect: Treating everyone with kindness. Always improving: Striving to make things better daily 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.

Date posted

26 August 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£32,073 to £39,043 a year pro rata per annum

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

6 months

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

319-8230129KD

Job locations

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Trustwide

Cobalt

Wallsend

NE27 0QJ

United Kingdom

Job description

Job responsibilities

To assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care working as a member of the ward team under the direction of the Ward Manager.

To be responsible for the organising and co-ordination of nursing services in the ward/dept in the absence of senior staff on a regular basis.

To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.

To be responsible for all nursing care standards and to maintain high clinical standards.

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

Person Specification

Experience and knowledge

Desirable

Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods

Qualifications / Professional Registration

Essential

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).

Desirable

PP126/7
D32/33
Post Registration qualification in specialty
Diploma/degree in nursing

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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