Job summary
- Main area
- Oncology Day Unit
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-6242484AZ-A
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Tyneside General Hospital
- Town
- North Shields
- Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/07/2024 23:59
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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
An exciting position has become available for a Band 3 Nursing Assistant to work on our Oncology Day Unit at North Tyneside General Hospital. The role involves working alongside our team of nurses and our Ward Manager to provide assistance and support to patients, carers and multi-disciplinary team to deliver a high-quality service. The role will involve daily phlebotomy, basic patient assessment and general housekeeping duties to help with the smooth daily running of the ward.
Main duties of the job
- 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
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, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Accurately record all patient observations, blood sugar levels
- Be able to perform venepuncture and cannulation
- Be able to use Trust Systems such as Chemocare and ICE
- To assist in pre-assessments for patients starting SACT
- Complete vascular access referrals
- To promote health within the ward setting and to prepare clinical areas for procedures, i.e. Aseptic Technique.
- To demonstrate safe manual handling of patients.
- Assist in ensuring a clean, safe and pleasant ward environment.
- To adhere to trust policies.
- To utilise trust resources effectively.
- To contribute to the induction of healthcare assistants.
- Share knowledge and skills with all new members of staff, including students.
- To complete staff surveys.
- To take personal responsibilities for achieving agreed objectives through the appraisal process.
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
Desirable criteria
- BM’s & physiological observations
- ECG’s
- 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
- Sophie Atkinson
- Job title
- ODU Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 293 2751
- Additional information
Natalie Jones - Lead ODU Secretary
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