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About
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an award winning NHS Foundation Trust which provides hospital and community health services in North Tyneside, and hospital, community health and adult social care services in Northumberland.
Contact
- Address
- Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Human Resources Department
- Northumbria House
- 7/8 Silver Fox Way, Cobalt Business Park
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- NE27 0QJ
- Contact Number
- 0191 2031415 Option 2
Admiral Nurse - Deputy Lead
Closed for applications on: 4-Nov-2024 00:02
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 4-Nov-2024 00:02
Key details
Location
- Site
- TRUSTWIDE ROLE
- Address
- The Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital
- Town
- The Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital
- Postcode
- NE23 6NZ
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Corporate Nursing
- Interview date
- 21/11/2024
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). 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 and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job overview
This is an extremely exciting opportunity for an experienced Nurse who is passionate about dementia care, to lead and develop a newly established Acute Admiral Nurse Service. You will play a fundamental part in shaping and developing the service to meet the needs of the Trust, our teams and our patients.
There are approximately 944,000 people living with Dementia in the UK. This number is set to increase to one million people by 2030 (ARUK, 2024) Around half of people aged over 70 who are admitted to hospital as an emergency have a cognitive disorder such as Dementia (BGS, 2022). if admitted to hospital, patients with Dementia are at higher risk of poor outcomes during and following a hospital admission.
Dementia is everybody's business and here at Northumbria, we recognise the challenges our public and teams face, and have collaborated with Dementia UK to develop Northumbria's first Acute Admiral Nurse Service.
The Deputy Lead Admiral Nurse will provide positive clinical leadership, expertise and specialist clinical advice and support to clinical staff on the management and care of patients with dementia, and their carers. Empowering teams to deliver high quality dementia care whilst providing consultancy to colleagues, health and social care professionals and services. They will be key in the delivery, implementation and review of the Trust’s Dementia and Delirium Strategy 2021-2026.
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They will role model compassionate and inclusive leadership. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which engages, enables and empowers others, uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and facilitates partnership team working and collaboration within teams and departments and across organisational boundaries, internal and external to the Trust.
They will work with the Band 8a and lead on Best Practice and Pathway Development for the Acute AN Service, develop and support key projects & works streams in line with Trust strategy and Safety, Quality and Improvement. They will directly manage, coordinate and provide clinical supervision to the wider Acute Admiral Nurse team.
They will work alongside our Dementia Lecturer Practitioner, Acute Admiral Nurses and other Clinical Educators to develop training and education plans for Trust Dementia Training, to ensure compliance in delivery of Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3 and Dementia Specific Training in line with NHSE Dementia Training Standards.
The successful applicant will be an NMC registered (adult/mental health/learning disability) nurse, with relevant post-registration clinical experience of working with people with dementia and supporting their carers and families within different care settings.
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, 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.
You will be employed by Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust and will receive ongoing support from Dementia UK to strengthen your clinical expertise as a specialist nurse within dementia care. You will also become part of the wider network of Admiral Nurses and will have the opportunity to access relevant post graduate courses and develop professionally, as informed by the Admiral Nurse Competency Framework.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Acute Admiral Nurse (AN) Service fulfils a unique role and offers highly skilled support to families and people living with Dementia with complex needs during their hospital admission and post discharge. As well as working directly with families, the service has a role in advising, training and role modelling to enable our staff and colleagues to deliver best practice in Dementia care. In addition, the team provide independent advice, information and signposting to staff who are carers of someone living with Dementia as well as those who may be worried about their own memory or cognition. The Acute AN Service officially launched in February 2023, it supports and endorses a co-ordinated and collaborative approach in line with the Trust’s ‘Dementia and Delirium Strategy 2021-2026’ ‘Home to Hospital and Back Again’ as well as the Trust’s Clinical Strategy and the New Carers Strategy and Professional Development.
The Deputy Lead Admiral Nurse will:
• Lead on and advise on the care of people with dementia and their families.
• Lead and support care transitions and effective discharge for people with dementia and their families.
• Reduce inappropriate delayed transfers of care and inappropriate admissions and readmissions as part of the wider health and social care system priorities.
• Improve dementia training and education to staff within the hospital to improve staff attitudes, confidence and competence in line with best practice and guidance.
• Lead on and support the audit and evaluation of quality improvements and initiatives aimed at improving the delivery of dementia care.
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
Certificate of Sponsorship
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse (RMN/RN/RNLD) 1st Level Current NMC Registration
- Degree in Nursing or relevant degree level study
- Teaching or Mentorship Qualification
- Post registration training/ education in dementia/ frailty/ older people
Desirable criteria
- Post Graduate or Masters level qualification in dementia / older people’s care/ frailty
Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Significant post registration clinical experience of working with people with dementia, and their cares/ families in different settings including acute care.
- Experience of completing holistic nursing assessments
- Experience of providing biopsychosocial interventio
- Experience of facilitating and delivering training
- Experience of professional supervision of staff
Desirable criteria
- Experience of older persons medicine and palliative care
- Experience of undertaking staff performance reviews and planned development of staff
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Evidence of continued professional development
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Judy Mattison
- Job title
- Lead Admiral Nurse, Lead Nurse Dementia Delirium
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07976669595
- Additional information
To find out more about the role of an Admiral Nurse, candidates are encouraged to complete Dementia UK’s free online: Pre Admiral Nurse eLearning course. This could be in advance of the interviews or upon an offer of employment being made and prior to starting in post.
Bob Cochrane - Account Manager - Dementia UK [email protected]
Tel: 07849847996
No longer accepting applications
Sorry, this vacancy is no longer accepting applications.
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