Nursing Assistant | Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 10 September 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £24,071 - £25,674 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 October 2024 |
| Location: | Hexham, NE46 1QJ |
| Company: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6594729/319-6594729JA |
Summary
Ward 4 is a 30 bedded unit, offering stroke and elderly rehabilitation.
Many of our patients have complex needs.
You will be required to work under direct supervision of the qualified nurse to provide high quality, safe patient care and treatment, and to work with the Multi-disciplinary team to promote patient rehabilitation.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the advertised closing date as soon as sufficient applications have been received.
Assist patients with all activities of daily living, including washing, dressing, bathing, mobility, continence, hydration and nutrition.
Undertake clinical observations
Blood glucose monitoring
Mouthcare assessment and intervention
Nutritional assessment, ensuring high quality nutritional support, fluid balance.
Moving and handling
Maintain privacy, dignity and confidentiality.
Communication with patients, their family and carers
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.
Ward 4 is a 30 bedded unit, offering stroke and elderly rehabilitation.
Many of our patients have complex needs.
Undertake a range of delegated clinical care duties in the ward environment under the direct supervision of a Qualified nurse. Records patient observations and changes to patient clinical conditions.
To work under the supervision of a qualified nurse and assist in the implementation of both direct and non-direct patient care.
To provide and promote high quality care under the guidance of a qualified healthcare professional.
Work with the MDT to promote rehabilitation and monitor patient goals.
This advert closes on Tuesday 24 Sep 2024
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