The closing date is 03 December 2025
Salary: £38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our team in Ambulatory care/ Elderly Care Assessment Unit at Hexham. The department is a combination of the two specialties with patients often migrating between the two.
The Ambulatory care department sees a diverse caseload of patients from various specialities.
Patients attend as day cases for the administration of intravenous medication, blood transfusions, venesections, specialised blood tests and ambulatory care pathways.
The Elderly Care Assessment Unit sees patients predominantly over the age of 65 and those with frailty and multiple co-morbidities.
Referrals are made from a variety of sources (NEAS/Community paramedics/GP’s/UTC) and accepted same day or by appointment.
Patients attend for falls and syncope assessment on a pre planned basis.
The department facilitates a pathway for hospital admission for frail elderly patients that can be medically managed locally and avoiding A&E.
The department has a resident speciality doctor and on call consultant cover.
The successful candidate must be an innovative thinker and be committed to developing their skills and knowledge in all areas of relevant clinical practice.
Job responsibilities
As senior nurse it is expected that you will be able to, and take responsibility for:
- Provide high quality person centred care.
- Maintain contemporary, relevant knowledge to underpin clinical practice.
- Maintain clinical skills and competence in venepuncture and cannulation.
- Rotate between the different clinical areas within the department, taking charge in the absence of department manager.
- Coordinate staff to ensure the department functions efficiently.
- Take appropriate steps to manage staff sickness/shortages to ensure that disruption to the department is minimal.
- Manage incident reports
- Deal with concerns and complaints
- Coordinate a caseload of patients within Ambulatory care to:
- Ensure that patients receive appointments/treatments at appropriate intervals.
- Liaise with HCP’s from other specialities to ensure that prescriptions and drugs are available for administration.
- Oversee the safe administration of medications in accordance with trust policy.
- Supervise junior staff and offer suitable advice and guidance.
- Be able to use relevant IT systems to inform safe and effective care.
- Complete electronic discharge summaries.
- Accept and triage telephone and electronic referrals
- Arrange and review in a timely fashion dependent on clinical need.
- Liaise with the Patient Flow team and the wider MDT to ensure that patients are assessed and treated efficiently allowing seamless flow throughout the department.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- 1st Level Registered Nurse
- Degree in nursing/ health studies or working towards
- 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 unless post is bank only)
- Practice development course / qualification or equivalent Clinical skills training
- Evidence of continued professional development
Desirable
- Nurse prescriber
- Post Graduate Qualification
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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UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).