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Nursing Assistant | Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Job details
Posting date: 27 December 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £24,071 - £25,674 per annum
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 26 January 2025
Location: North Shields, NE290SF
Company: Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 6840007/319-6840007IO-HAS

Summary


The Continence service within Northumbria healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is looking for an enthusiastic Nursing assistant to join our small community nursing team.



This role provides assistance to the specialist nursing team and support within the home delivery office base.



The successful candidate will need to have a full driving licence and access to a car as the role involves travelling across the whole of the Northumbria healthcare trust locality.





Applicants should be excellent communicators with good telephone communication skills; have the ability to deal with the general public and have a positive approach to patient care.





Clear evidence of key board skills, willingness to be part of service improvement activities and the ability to work under pressure is essential.

This role involvesassisting the nursing staff and undertaking patient reviews in Nursing homes, some very basic training sessions, on fitting and use of containment product and sheath systems. Undertaking bladder scans and reporting these results to the qualified staff, supporting staff with continence product fitting issues. The other aspect of the role involves working in the continence product home delivery service office, to cover any staffing shortages to ensure we are able to provide an effective service to patients.



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, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? 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, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
• 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
• Provide and receive routine information which requires tact or persuasive skills or where there are barriers to understanding
• Providing and receiving routine information orally, in writing or electronically to inform work colleagues, patients, clients, carers, the public or other External contacts
• Able to use electronic systems such as SystmOne and our service specific continence home delivery portal (training will be provided)
• Alerts qualified staff to any changes in a patients condition
• Completes relevant nursing documentation specific to clinical area
• Must be able to demonstrate the English language proficiency level required for this post
• NVQ Level 3 in Health/Health & Social Care/Direct Care or a portfolio of equivalent experience
• Previous care experience preferably in a health care setting
• Ability to organise own day to day work tasks or activities


This advert closes on Sunday 12 Jan 2025

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