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Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
About
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is an award winning NHS Foundation Trust which provides hospital and community health services in North Tyneside, and hospital, community health and adult social care services in Northumberland.
Nursing Assistant
Closed for applications on: 1-Oct-2024 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 1-Oct-2024 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Wansbeck General Hospital
- Address
- Woodhorn Lane
- Town
- Ashington
- Postcode
- NE63 9JJ
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
Salary
- Salary
- £24,071 - £25,674 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 3)
Specialty
- Main area
- Urology
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.
Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job overview
We are looking for a dynamic, caring team player to join our Urology Department with Northumbria- Healthcare Foundation Trust, covering a 7 days service at the Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham areas. Predominant working pattern will be Monday to Friday. However, weekend working is required, as well as late evenings.
Urology is a very interesting and varied speciality. Our staff need to work well as a team but also autonomously when required. We are primarily a diagnostic unit and pride ourselves on providing excellent patient care. Good communication skills are essential.
Full time 37.5 hours or Part time hours may be considered
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- To assist in the delivery of a high standard of patient care. Supporting the nursing staff and consultants in diagnostic procedures such as flexible cystoscopy, trans-perineal biopsies, flow studies, outpatient clinics.
- You will be trained in the decontamination of equipment, using sterile and non sterile technique.
- You will be involved in ordering supplies where necessary, helping to ensure smooth running of the department.
- When fully trained there will be the opportunity to work more autonomously.
- Communicate effectively and sensitively with patients, relatives and colleagues, referring to senior staff as necessary.
- Answer the telephone and relay messages accurately.
- Welcome patients and visitors in a professional, friendly and helpful manner.
- Work effectively as a member of the team, offering support to colleagues and requesting assistance as necessary.
- Record care given accurately, legibly, completely and concisely.
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
- To assist in the delivery of a high standard of patient care. Supporting the nursing staff and consultants in diagnostic procedures such as flexible cystoscopy, trans-perineal biopsies, flow studies, outpatient clinics.
- You will be trained in the decontamination of equipment, using sterile and non sterile technique.
- You will be involved in ordering supplies where necessary, helping to ensure smooth running of the department.
- When fully trained there will be the opportunity to work more autonomously.
- Communicate effectively and sensitively with patients, relatives and colleagues, referring to senior staff as necessary.
- Answer the telephone and relay messages accurately.
- Welcome patients and visitors in a professional, friendly and helpful manner.
- Work effectively as a member of the team, offering support to colleagues and requesting assistance as necessary.
- Record care given accurately, legibly, completely and concisely.
Applicant requirements
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
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of completed competencies aligned to the service area
- Customer Care course
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Wilson
- Job title
- Urology Sister
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01670 529314
- Additional information
01670 529314
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