Job summary
- Main area
- Out Patients
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-6366400SC
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wansbeck General Hospital
- Town
- Ashington
- Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
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Nursing Assistant
NHS AfC: Band 3
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.
Job overview
Are you interested in working in a busy, dynamic and friendly Outpatient Department to deliver a modern-day outpatients service.
We are looking for a motivated and flexible Band 3 HealthCare Assistant to join our Outpatient team.
We work across multiple Outpatients areas to deliver a seven-day service. You will also be required to support and Manage trauma and Orthopaedics clinics based at our specialist emergency hospital, you will be required to be flexible to the needs of the service and work within Outpatient departments at our brand new modern out patients’ clinics at Morpeth View and Wansbeck Hospital to deliver care therefore a car driver is essential.
We will provide a supportive learning environment and encourage you with your personal and professional development.
You must have an outpatient or clinic experience or experience in a hospital background. NVQ level 3 is essential or relevant outpatient experience and you must have phlebotomy skills.
Main duties of the job
Work with patients in a variety of out patient settings
Assist with patient pathways across multiple nursing areas delivering out patient care under supervision of RGN nursing team
manage own clinic workload under non direct supervision from RGN
Travel across multiple sites to support the service need
To assist the qualified nursing staff in the delivery of high quality direct and indirect patient care
To provide assistance and support to patients, carers and the multi-disciplinary team
To maintain high clinical standards
To help maintain a clean and safe ward environment
Working for our organisation
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
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Provides and receives routine information which requires tact or persuasive skills or where there are barriers to understanding
• Providing and receiving routine information orally, in writing or electronically to inform work colleagues, patients, clients, carers, the public or other External contacts
• Able to use electronic systems such as PAS, ICE
• Complete IR1 forms and provides statements as appropriate
• Able to contribute to ward meetings
• Alerts qualified staff to changes in a patient’s condition
• Completes relevant nursing documentation specific to clinical area
• Must be able to demonstrate the English language proficiency level required for this post
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ Level 3 in Health/Health & Social Care/Direct Care or portfolio of equivalent experience
- Courses and experience that demonstrate transferable skills i.e. respiratory essentials, basic stoma care, palliative care course for HCAs
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Previous care experience preferably in a healthcare setting
Skills and Abilities
Desirable criteria
- Phlebotomy
Applicant requirements
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
- Judith Coates
- Job title
- OPD Manager
- Telephone number
- 07815506036
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