Job overview
Do you have an interest in rehabilitation and supporting the local community? A vacancy has arisen at Berwick Infirmary Older Persons Rehabilitation Ward for a dynamic, highly motivated and competent individual to join our team. We are a 16 bedded innovative and forward thinking older person rehabilitation ward; supporting a variety of patients who require ongoing medical care and rehabilitation following acute illness e.g. medical, orthopaedic, dementia and palliative care.
We provide excellent care to a wide range of patients with the emphasis on advanced discharge planning and working closely with Community and our Ward Multi- Disciplinary Teams.
The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills and a commitment to ensuring safe and high quality care is delivered to our patients, as well as being a role model and supporting our junior workforce.
We support the ongoing development of B5s to become competent and autonomous in their role within Community Hospitals
Main duties of the job
The successful post holder must be able to role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the Trust.
This is a rotational post and the successful candidate will be expected to work night shift as service needs require.
Main duties of this role include;
To provide nursing care to a caseload of patients and to provide verbal and written handovers to nursing colleagues and the multi disciplinary 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 16 patients).
Working for our organisation
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.
