· 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
· To work under the supervision of a qualified nurse and assist in the implementation of patient care both direct and non-direct.
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
1. Communication and Relationships
· Provides and receives 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 Nerve Centre, PAS & ICE
· Complete IR1 forms and provides statements as appropriate
· Able to contribute to ward meetings
· Alerts qualified staff to changes in a patient’s condition
· Completes patient records and documentation
· Must be able to demonstrate the English language proficiency level required for this post.
2. Knowledge, Skills, Training and Experience
· Understanding of patient’s basic needs
· Caring experience
· Evidence of experience in a caring role
· Good verbal communication
· Written communication skills
· Good customer care skills
· Ability to communicate with members of the MDT, patients, carers and visitors
· Ability to work as member of the team
· High level of personal communication
· Helpful nature
· Must be flexible to meet the needs of the service and be able to work a full variety of shifts including days and nights
Desirable
· Previous care experience preferably in a healthcare setting
· NVQ Level 2 in direct care/health/health and social care (Desirable)
· Previous care experience preferably in a healthcare setting (Desirable)
· Care Certificate (Desirable)
· Experience of providing direct and indirect patient care
· Blood sugar monitoring, physiological observations, ECG’s& urnalysis )
3. Analytical Skills
· Assists qualified nurseand senior colleagues
· Makes judgments involving straightforward job-related facts or situations
· Able to recognise triggers on NEWS and act accordingly as per algorithm
· Able to recognise signs of the deteriorating patient and alert qualified staff accordingly.
4. Planning and Organisational Skills
· Organises own day to day work tasks or activities under supervision of qualified staff.
· Able to respond to the changing needs of patients and ward routines.
5. Physical Skills
· Moving and handling of patients including the use of hoists and other mechanical aids.
6. Patient/Client Care
· To assist the qualified nurses in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care.
· To give basic nursing care, e.g.; assistance with personal hygiene, eating and drinking, mobility needs, washing under direct or indirect supervision.
· Monitor patient’s observations and vital signs including fluid balance
· To report accurately perceived changes in a patient’s manner, observation, eating habits etc.
· To promote health within the ward setting
· To prepare the clinical area for procedures
7. Policy and Service Development
· To be aware of where to access information e.g. policies and procedures
· Follows policies in own role which are determined by others
· Follows policies in own role which are determined by others; no responsibility for service development, but may be required to comment on policies, procedures or possible developments.
8. Financial and Physical Resources
· To utilise resources effectively, putting away stocks and supplies when required.
· Regularly handles patient’s valuables & property.
9. Human Resources
· Provides advice, or demonstrates own activities or workplace routines to new or less experienced employees in own work area.
· To take personal responsibility for achieving agreed objectives identified through the annual KSF appraisal process.
· Attend all Mandatory training
10. Information Resources
· To complete patient information in nursing documentation and observation within NerveCentre.
· Records personally generated information
· Keeps qualified staff updated on changes in patient’s condition
· You will be expected to have basic functional skills, including literacy, mathematics and digital skills. Digitally literacy is the ability to locate, organise, understand, evaluate and analyse information using digital sources. This is in line with ‘digital readiness indicator for health and social care’, which has been developed in the Building a Digital Ready Workforce Program (BDRW), between Health Education England (HEE) and NHS Digital, and is part of the Government’s Digital Transformation Portfolio (DTP) (2019)
11.Research and Development
· To collect information as requested and to take part in changes in the clinical areas to benefit patients.
· Undertakes surveys or audits, as necessary to own work
12.Freedom to Act
· Generally works with supervision close by within well established procedures and/or practices and has standards and results to achieve.
This advert closes on Sunday 21 Jul 2024
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