Job summary
- Main area
- Day surgery
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Other
- Job ref
- 236-SCO-CS250-24
- Employer
- Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Salford Royal Hospital
- Town
- Salford
- Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
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Nursing Associate - Day Surgery
Band 4
Job overview
You will embrace the challenge of working in a highly diverse environment, committed to becoming the safest organisation in the NHS. You will be registered with the NMC and have experience of working in an acute hospital environment. As a nursing associate in the day surgery unit you will be need to be flexible and able to adapt to meet the needs of the department day to day. This includes assisting with basic nursing care through to caring for your own caseload of patients.
You will be able to:-
- Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills
- Deliver high standards of personalised, patient centred care
- Demonstrate a high level of compassion for patients and their relatives
Main duties of the job
An exciting opportunity has arisen for Qualified Nursing Associates to work within planned care on the day surgery unit.
The post holders will support clinical practice within the day surgery department:
- Keeping the people who using our services as safe as possible through the use of sound clinical skills and effective risk assessments.
- Ensuring the best possible clinical outcomes by using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence based policies and procedures.
- Ensuring the people using our services have a good experience by respecting, empowering and working in partnership with people throughout the care planning process
- Supporting learning in both formal and informal settings in order to support the on-going development of staff in clinical practice.
You will be supported in this role and will have opportunities for continuing professional development in a busy and rapidly developing service.
Working for our organisation
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Foundation Degree in Science based subject
Knowledge, Training & Experience
Essential criteria
- Understanding of the scope of the role of the Nursing Associate in context of the nursing and interdisciplinary team and the organisation, and how the role may contribute to service development
- Knowledge of when to seek advice and escalate to the appropriate professional for expert help and advice
- Understanding of the importance of following procedures and treatment plans
- Maintain high standards of quality in corporate and clinical record keeping ensuring information is always recorded accurately, appropriately and kept up to date
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in day surgery
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to take part in reflective practice and clinical supervision activities
- Good communication (written and verbal skills)
- Good organisational skills
Desirable criteria
- Ability to support, supervise, assess and act as a role model to nursing associate students, other learners and health care support 6 workers as required within the clinical setting
- Ability to deal with non-routine and unpredictable nature of workload and individual patient contact
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Stacey Harden
- Job title
- Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01612068556
- Additional information
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