Job summary
Employer heading
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
· 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
Main duties of the job
· Undertakes a range of delegated clinical care duties in hospital, community, and other settings.
· Records patient observations and changes to patient clinical conditions
· Carries out limited clinical care duties.
Working for our organisation
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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Communications and Realtionships
Provides and receives routine information which requires tact or persuasive skills or where there are barriers to understanding.
· Exchanges information with patients, relatives and the wider MDT using the following skills where appropriate persuasion, reassurance, tact, empathy; may overcome barriers to understanding, e.g., patient/client has physical impairment, mental health condition or learning disabilities.
· Able to use electronic systems specific to clinical area working Complete incident reports and provides statements as appropriate
· Able to contribute to team meetings
· Alerts qualified staff to changes in a patient’s condition
· Must be able to demonstrate the English language proficiency level required for this post
Knowledge , Skills Training and Experience
· Knowledge of care and related procedures, clinical observations, relevant legislation
· Completion of a competency-based programme or equivalent relevant experience
· Level 3 qualification in a healthcare related subject or a portfolio of demonstrable equivalent experience
· Previous care experience in a health or social care setting
· Good verbal and written communication
· A commitment to continuous professional development
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Knowledge of care and related procedures, clinical observations, relevant legislation
- • Completion of a competency-based programme or equivalent relevant experience
- • Level 3 qualification in a healthcare related subject or a portfolio of equivalent demonstrable experience
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
- Ben Slade
- Job title
- ward manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 2934030
- Additional information
2nd contact: Louise Taylor (ward manager) 0191 2934371
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