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Main area
Out Patients
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 3
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
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

Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust logo

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

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardDisability confident employerCare quality commission - OutstandingStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Better Health at Work Award - Maintaining ExcellenceHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Judith Coates
Job title
OPD Manager
Telephone number
07815506036
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