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Nursing Assistant | Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 12 July 2024 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 August 2024 |
| Location: | North Shields, NE29 8NH |
| Company: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6476122/319-6404896RG |
Summary
· To assist the qualified nursing staff in the delivery of high quality direct and indirect patient care
· To provide assistance and support to patients, carers and the multi-disciplinary team
· To maintain high clinical standards
· To help maintain a clean and safe ward environment
· Undertakes a range of delegated clinical care duties in hospital, community, and other settings.
· Records patient observations and changes to patient clinical conditions
· Carries out limited clinical care duties.
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
Communications and Realtionships
Provides and receives routine information which requires tact or persuasive skills or where there are barriers to understanding.
· Exchanges information with patients, relatives and the wider MDT using the following skills where appropriate persuasion, reassurance, tact, empathy; may overcome barriers to understanding, e.g., patient/client has physical impairment, mental health condition or learning disabilities.
· Able to use electronic systems specific to clinical area working Complete incident reports and provides statements as appropriate
· Able to contribute to team meetings
· Alerts qualified staff to changes in a patient’s condition
· Must be able to demonstrate the English language proficiency level required for this post
Knowledge , Skills Training and Experience
· 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 demonstrable equivalent experience
· Previous care experience in a health or social care setting
· Good verbal and written communication
· A commitment to continuous professional development
This advert closes on Sunday 28 Jul 2024
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