Band 2/3
Main area: Urgent Care
Grade: Band 2/3
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shifts including nights and weekends)
Job ref: 349-WTWA-6950250*
Site: Wythenshawe Emergency Department
Town: Manchester
Salary: £23,615 - £25,674 Per Annum, Pro Rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 24/02/2025 23:59
Job Overview
We’re looking for compassionate and caring Nursing Assistants with a passion to be a key part of the patient care journey here at Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MFT). At Wythenshawe, our Nursing Assistants take great pride in the essential work we do. Our nursing teams are committed to caring for our patients and families, delivering consistent, high quality, patient focused care.
You’ll communicate in a sensitive and compassionate manner with patients, relatives, and other members of the multi-disciplinary team, working flexibly across a range of day and night shifts over 7 days a week.
Main Duties of the Job
Being supervised by Registered Nurses and within Trust guidelines and protocols, you’ll assist the Nursing team in delivering the excellent standard of patient care that you would expect for yourself and your loved ones.
Your duties will involve supporting patients with personal care needs, including mobilising, toileting, bathing, dressing, eating, and drinking.
Following on-the-job training and assessment, you’ll learn how to undertake a range of delegated clinical care duties that include recording patient observations and changes to patient conditions.
On the Job Training Opportunities
On joining MFT, if you are new to working in healthcare, you’ll be supported to develop your knowledge and skills through our Support Worker Development Programme for Nursing Assistants. 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 an experienced Nursing Assistant seeking a new opportunity in a Band 3 role, you’ll undertake a skills analysis when you start to ensure that you meet the skills required for your role. If there are any gaps identified in your knowledge, you’ll be supported to access relevant clinical skills modules to support your progression to a Band 3 post on completion.
Working for Our Organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health and social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals and community services from across Manchester, Trafford and beyond, we champion collaborative working and transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient and staff experience, operational effectiveness, and driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities
At MFT, our Nursing Assistants take great pride in the essential work we do. Our team’s commitment to work with empathy, consideration and dignity means that we’re among the best 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 completion of the Support Worker Development Programme will give you the opportunity to progress into a Band 3 Nursing Assistant role.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce. 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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential Criteria
1. Holds National Care Certificate or be willing to undertake and complete within 12 weeks of starting.
2. Level 2 Apprenticeship in health care OR gain equivalent knowledge and skill undertaking the Trust Clinical Support Worker Development Programme.
3. On completion of the Trust Clinical Support Worker Development Programme demonstrating evidence of clinical knowledge, skill and competency the worker will move to band 3 AfC.
4. Holds Functional Skills Level 1 Maths and English or education equivalent.
Knowledge
Essential Criteria
1. Experience working in a healthcare, social care organisation/setting or service industry requiring people contact.
Desirable Criteria
1. Experience of working within a health care environment.
Skills
Essential Criteria
1. Good communication skills (written and verbal).
2. Able to work as a team.
3. Able to carry out well-defined routine tasks.
4. Able to work on own initiative, following direction/supervision by a Registered Healthcare Practitioner.
5. Able to relate well with patients, relatives, visitors, colleagues, the multi-disciplinary team and wider Trust staff.
Desirable Criteria
1. Computer skills.
Employer Certification / Accreditation Badges
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.
Further Details / Informal Visits Contact
Name: Catherine Dean
Job title: Unit Manager
Email address: catherine.dean@mft.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 01612916065
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