Senior Nursing Assistant
Accepting applications until: 27-Mar-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 27-Mar-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- Trafford Elective Surgical Hub Preop Assessment
- Cyfeiriad
- Trafford Hospital
- Tref
- Urmston
- Cod post
- M41 5SL
- Major / Minor Region
- Manchester
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Oriau
- Full time
- Part time
Salary
- Cyflog
- £24,071 - £25,674 Per Annum, (Pro Rata)
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (Band 3)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- Surgery
Trosolwg o'r swydd
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 will work under the overall supervision of a registered practitioner.
Be responsible for participating and assisting in the delivery of delegated care to patients within the pre-op department team.
Carry out several delegated routine procedures requiring a base level of knowledge and understanding specific to the care of patients.
We are able to offer varied hours, either full time and or part time
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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 venepuncture, undertaking ECG ,taking MRSA and CPE swabs and urine samples..
On the Job Training Opportunities
On joining MFT, if you are new to working in healthcare, you’ll be supported to develop your knowledge & skills through our Support Worker Development Programme for Nursing Assistants which includes. The great news is, the completion of the Support Worker Development Programme will give you the opportunity to progress into a Band 3 Nursing Assistant role.
If you’re an experienced Nursing Assistant with a comprehensive range of skills & seeking a new opportunity in a Band 3 role, you’ll undertake a skills analysis when you start to ensure that you meet the skills required for your role. If there are any gaps identified in your knowledge, you’ll be supported to access relevant clinical skills modules to support your progression to a Band 3 post on completion.
Evidence of prior learning will be reviewed and considered.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & 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 30,000 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.
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
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
Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Completed the National Care Certificate
- Holds a level 3 Vocational Qualification (e.g. NVQ or Apprenticeship) in Clinical Healthcare or able to demonstrate equivalent knowledge and/or experience
- Holds Functional Skills Level 1 Maths and English or GCSE equivalent or undertake and achieve a pass following completion of level 1 functional skills assessment
- Worked at a band 2 Nursing Assistant level or equivalent
Meini prawf dymunol
- Speciality specific training and evidence of competencies being achieved and continued development
Knowledge
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Experience working in a healthcare, social care organisation/setting or service industry requiring people contact
Meini prawf dymunol
- Experience of working within a health care environment.
Skills
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Good communication skills (written and verbal).
- Able to work as a team.
- Able to carry out well defined routine tasks.
- Able to work on own initiative, following direction/supervision by a Registered Healthcare Practitioner.
- Able to relate well with patients/relatives/visitors/ Colleagues/the multi-disciplinary team and wider Trust staff.
Meini prawf dymunol
- Computer skills.
- venepuncture
- undertaking ECG
Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- Nicola Thorpe
- Teitl y swydd
- TESH Pre-op Manager
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 0161 746 2834
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