Nursing Assistant
Accepting applications until: 13-Oct-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 13-Oct-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Wythenshawe Hospital
- Address
- Southmoor Road
- Town
- Wythenshawe
- Postcode
- M23 9LT
- Major / Minor Region
- Manchester
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 28 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £24,465 - £26,598 Per Annum, (Pro Rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 2/3)
Specialty
- Main area
- Cardiology
Job overview
This post is based at Wythenshawe Hospital
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and caring individual to join our team in the Cardiac Outpatient Department. Previous experience is highly desirable; however, training will be provided, and the successful candidate will be supported to develop their knowledge and skills through our Support Worker Development Programme for Nursing Assistants. The successful applicant must be able to relate positively with patients, staff, and visitors to the department. A degree of flexibility is required as you will need to be able to participate in a variety of shift patterns to meet the needs of the service.
You will need to have:
· Completed the National Care Certificate
· Hold a level 3 Vocational Qualification (e.g. NVQ or Apprenticeship) in Clinical Healthcare or able to demonstrate equivalent knowledge and/or experience
· Excellent communication skills – in particular listening skills
· A friendly, open, empathetic and compassionate communication style
· A strong ability to engage with patients, visitors and colleagues
· The ability to work well in a team
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The post holder will:
· Provide care to all patients attending the Cardiac Outpatient department.
· Communicate effectively with patients, relatives and healthcare practitioners.
· Co-ordinate the Outpatient clinics which includes management of patient flow and experience.
· Perform clinical observations, 12 lead ECG's and venepuncture.
· Undertake various point of care tests which include blood glucose test and NT-proBNP’s and record results.
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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. But more than that, our team’s commitment to work with empathy, consideration and dignity means that we’re among the best – and most compassionate – in our field.
On joining MFT, you’ll be supported to develop your knowledge and skills through our Support Worker Development Programme for Nursing Assistants that includes completion of the Care Certificate for candidates who have not completed this previously. 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 a more experienced Nursing Assistant seeking a new opportunity in a Band 3 role, you’ll undertake a skills analysis when you start to identify any gaps in your clinical skills knowledge needed for your role. You’ll then be supported to access relevant modules from the clinical skills programme to support your progression to a Band 3 post on completion.
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
Essential criteria
- Holds National Care Certificate or be willing to undertake and complete within 12 weeks of starting.
- Level 2 Apprenticeship in health care OR Gain equivalent knowledge and skill undertaking the Trust Clinical Support Worker Development Programme
- Holds Functional Skills Level 1 Maths and English or education equivalent.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience working in a healthcare, social care organisation/setting or service industry requiring people contact.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within a health care environment
Skills
Essential criteria
- 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.
Desirable criteria
- Computer skills.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Akunna Esebamen
- Job title
- Senior Specialist Nurse/ Cardiac OPD Nurse Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 291 4614
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