Main area: Surgical Division
Grade Band: 4
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (days and nights 12 hr shifts)
Job ref: 438-PB2370
Employer: Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Royal Preston Hospital
Town: Fulwood, Preston
Salary: £26,530 - £29,114 per annum, pro rata for part time
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 16/01/2025 23:59
Interview date: 27/01/2025
Job Overview
Are you a motivated practitioner who possesses excellent communication, interpersonal and organisational skills and want to provide Gold Standard care to our patients? Then this exciting opportunity is for you!
We are looking for an enthusiastic new team member to join Ward 12, one of our general and emergency wards at Royal Preston Hospital.
We are looking for a qualified Assistant Practitioner / Nursing Associate, who has a passion for providing high quality patient-focused care for our surgical patients with a flexible attitude towards work and a desire for new challenges.
You will gain valuable experience and develop wound assessment knowledge and wound care management skills, as well as pre and post-operative care knowledge and skills. These skills are transferable to any area of your nursing career.
Main Duties of the Job
General duties will include pre and post-operative care, physiological observations and investigations. You will develop an in-depth knowledge of wound management, stoma care, drain and fluid balance management, and provide personal care to patients. An interest in Upper GI, Colorectal and Urology would be beneficial.
As a Band 4, you will receive direct support from senior nursing colleagues to develop and enhance your skills, enabling you to nurse a cohort of patients and be responsible for their care.
You will be warmly welcomed and well supported by a fantastic team who are passionate and aspire to provide excellent care.
Working for Our Organisation
We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area and give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire and Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely makes a difference to support our patients and staff, ensuring we keep thriving and delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet great people, and do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills and enhance your career path.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
Contribute to the assessment, implementation and evaluation of care to meet patients’ needs in accordance with agreed local and national standards and evidence-based guidelines under supervision.
Support and provide patient education and health promotion.
Support the delivery and co-ordination of care through appropriate professional practice.
Contribute to the management of risk and maintain patient safety, conforming to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines.
Communicate all relevant information to the multidisciplinary team internally and with external organisations as required to ensure seamless care.
Maintain accurate and complete records of all care activities in a timely manner, adhering to local and professional standards for documentation.
Person Specification
Knowledge & Experience
* Significant experience of working at Senior Health Care Assistant level in a health or equivalent setting
* Recent experience of working within an acute hospital setting
* Experience of working with AHPs in MDT
* Experience of assisting with clinical procedures
* Knowledge of Health & Safety
* Knowledge of infection control and decontamination processes
* Experience of working as an assistant practitioner
* Experience of assessing vascular access devices
Qualifications & Education
* Basic General Education GCSE Maths & English grade C or above OR level 1 numeracy skills and level 2 literacy skills
* Diploma/NVQ level 3 in Health / Health & Social Care OR completion of the LTHTR INCS course.
* NMC Nursing Associate Pin if applicable
* Basic Life Support
* ECDL or equivalent IT skills
* Counselling Course
Thanks for taking the time to view this advert; we’re looking forward to receiving your application. You should be aware that the vacancy may close earlier than the published date if sufficient applications are received so it would be best to apply as soon as you can. We’ll contact you by e-mail to update you on the progress of your application so please check the e-mail account that you applied from (including spam/junk) regularly.
We are 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 race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership, neurodiversity or veteran status are encouraged to apply for this post.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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