Senior Nursing Assistant
Closed for applications on: 9-Dec-2022 00:01
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 9-Dec-2022 00:01
Key details
Location
- Site
- Altrincham Health and Wellbeing Centre
- Address
- Market Street
- Town
- Altrincham
- Postcode
- WA14 1RZ
- Major / Minor Region
- Manchester
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £20,330 - £21,777 Per Annum, Pro Rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 3)
Specialty
- Main area
- Community Nursing
Job overview
We are Trafford Local Care Organisation (TLCO)- an exciting, public sector organisation that is bringing together NHS community health services and social care services in the city. We’re driven by the aim of improving the health of local people in the borough of Trafford by working across organisational boundaries.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for Band 3 Senior Health Care Assistant to join our new Community Nursing Team in Altrincham, Trafford
We have 1 0.7 whole time equivalent and negotiable.
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The suitable candidate will demonstrate enthusiasm and be highly motivated. You should be qualified with a relevant NVQ level 3 with excellent communication skills to join our friendly and dynamic Manchester Community Nursing Service) to provide high quality and personalized nursing & therapy care to patients in their own homes.
The service by nature is busy, diverse in an ever changing environment of health and social integration. If you would like to make a positive difference we would like to hear from you. The service runs 7 days a week, varying shift patterns are available and operates between 8:00 am and 22:00pm and includes Bank Holidays.
Previous community experience is preferred; however training will be available for the suitable candidate.
The role will involve travelling to patients homes from various locations across Trafford and you will need to demonstrate at interview how you will achieve this.
Car owner/ user essential.
Working for our organisation
MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the ‘NHS England’ website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [email protected].
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
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.
Person specification
Education / qualification
Essential criteria
- NVQ 3 and relevant experience
Desirable criteria
- A1 – Assessors qualification
- Willing to work towards foundation degree programme.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Working with the multidisciplinary team.
- Assessing/supervising junior staff.
- Dealing with patient and relative complaints as appropriate
- Caring for a group of patients
- Evidence of competencies being achieved and continued development.
Desirable criteria
- Handling patients property
- Stock control
- Health and safety awareness of medical devices, repair and maintenance
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- James Robinson
- Job title
- District Nurse Senior Practitioner
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07917633983
- Additional information
For further details / informal visits contact:
James Robinson - 07917633983
No longer accepting applications
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