Job summary
Northumbria healthcare foundation trust are looking to recruit one Nursing Assistant, full time (at hours per week) to join the Children's Community Nursing Service, we are seeking an enthusiastic caring well organised person who is self motivated. You will have to be able to work as part of a team, possess good communication skills. You will be required to demonstrate an understanding of confidentiality.
The role will be to support with Paediatric clinics, with responsibility to ensure clinics run efficiently. You will help consultants and nursing staff with a variety of clinical tasks in clinics and be responsible for ensuring the clinics have all required equipment, and clinic rooms are maintained. You will be responsible for home deliveries of equipment, and ensuring the maintenance of equipment is up to date and recorded appropriately. Under trained supervision, you will be responsible for planning clinic rotas, and ordering equipment essential to the service.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received .
Main duties of the job
To work as a member of the Children's Community Nursing Service to support paediatric clinics across three sites. The Children's Community Nursing Assistant will work under the supervision and direction of the Children's Community Nurses.
The main aspects of the service you will be supporting are;
Provide a welcoming and well organised outpatient clinic environment and to support medical and nursing colleagues in delivering high quality out patient services.
To communicate with children, their parents, carers and others in clinics to ensure delivery of child focused and family centred care.
When required provide care and support as directed by the Children's Community Nurses, to meet the individual health needs of the child and young person.
About us
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To work as a member of the Childrens Community Nursing Service to support paediatric clinics. The Childrens Community Nursing Assistant will work under the supervision and direction of the Childrens Community Nurses.
The main aspects of the service you will be supporting are;
When required provide a welcoming, and well-organised out-patient clinic environment and to support medical colleagues in delivering high quality out-patient services.
To communicate with children, their parents, carers and others in clinics to ensure delivery of child focused and family centred care.
To support the service with a wide range of administrative duties, which will include (but not exhaustive) recording clinical information on SystmOne and Mediviewer
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. Completion of a competency-based programme or equivalent relevant experience
2. Level 3 qualification in a healthcare related subject or a portfolio of equivalent demonstrable experience
Experience & Knowledge
Essential
3. Previous care experience in a health or social care setting
Skills & Abilities
Desirable
4. Evidence of completed competencies aligned to the service area