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Senior Nursing Assistant
Closed for applications on: 11-Aug-2024 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 11-Aug-2024 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Saint Mary's Hospital Department of Reproductive Medicine
- Address
- Oxford Rd
- Town
- Manchester
- Postcode
- M13 9WL
- Major / Minor Region
- Manchester
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week (07.30-15.30 weekdays 8.0-16.00 weekends)
Salary
- Salary
- £23,615 - £25,674 Per Annum (Pro Rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 2/3)
Specialty
- Main area
- Gynaecology
Job overview
We’re looking for compassionate and caring Nursing Assistants with a passion to be a key part of the patient care journey here at Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MFT). Our Nursing Assistants take great pride in the essential work we do. That’s because we’re not just helping patients, we’re going the extra mile for them – day in, day out. Our nursing teams are committed to caring for our patients and families, delivering consistent, high quality, patient focused care.
You’ll communicate in a sensitive and compassionate manner with patients, relatives, and other members of the multi-disciplinary team, working flexibly across a range of day shifts over 7 days a week
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Being supervised by Registered Nurses & within Trust guidelines & protocols, you’ll assist the Nursing team in delivering the excellent standard of patient care that you would expect for yourself and your loved ones.
Your duties will involve supporting patients throughout their fertility treatment.
Following on the job training and assessment, you’ll learn how to undertake a range of delegated clinical care duties that include recording patient observations, & monitoring changes to patient conditions, venepuncture, chaperoning, assisting in procedure room and on the ward.
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & 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 Electronic Patient Record system which 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 Green Plan which sets 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.
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
Person specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience working in a healthcare organisation/setting, undertaking a wide range of clinical commitments
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in more than one speciality within a health care environment
- Experience in supporting Quality Improvement audits and research and development activities
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Completed the National Care Certificate if relevant
- Holds a level 3 Vocational Qualification (e.g. NVQ or Apprenticeship) in clinical health care OR Able to demonstrate equivalent knowledge, skill and competency to undertake band 3 clinical skills (described in JD)
- Holds Functional Skills Level 1 Maths and English or education equivalent
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Good communication skills (written and verbal).
- Taking and recording vital signs and other clinical skill following appropriate training and assessment and within scope of job role
- Able to work as a team.
- Able to work on own initiative in delivery patient care, following direction by a Registered Healthcare Practitioner.
- Computer skills.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of inducting, coaching and supervising junior staff
Attributes
Essential criteria
- Committed to delivering high standards of patient care.
- Friendly, open, empathetic and compassionate.
- Professional outlook and positive attitude.
- Able to meet the flexible needs of the role and duty roster
- Honest and trustworthy
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jennifer Wright
- Job title
- Nurse Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 701 4104
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
- Parkway 1
- Parkway Business Centre
- MFT Recruitment Office
- Manchester
- M14 7LU
- Telephone
- 0161 276 6198
No longer accepting applications
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