Main area: Senior Nursing Assistant
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 3
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Working over 7 days a week.)
Job ref: 349-LCO-6682201*
Employer: Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Meadway Health Centre
Town: Sale
Salary: £24,071 - £25,674 per annum, pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 27/11/2024 23:59
Job overview
Are you an experienced Nursing Assistant that is passionate about keeping patients in the comfort of their own home to avoid hospital admissions, or supporting patients discharged home after a lengthy hospital stay? Then this is the role for you.
We are a service in Trafford aiming to reduce the need for people to go into hospital by wrapping expert care around them in the community.
As part of the Crisis Response and Discharge to Assess Team you will be part of a wider multidisciplinary team which includes Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Nurses and Pharmacy.
This role is a seven day service working between the hours of 8am-9.30 pm on a rota basis. We promote flexibility and are happy to support different working patterns within the needs of the service.
Main duties of the job
In the role as Senior Nursing Assistant, you will be responsible for delivering clinical care for patients in their own home with immediate access to a qualified staff member for advice and direction on care as required.
You will be responsible for prioritising your own caseload of work and for tasks delegated from a registered nurse.
Communicating effectively with patients, relatives, carers, and other healthcare practitioners, ensuring any concerns are listened to and relevant actions are taken.
You will always act in a manner that illustrates respect for privacy, dignity and confidentiality.
A full UK driving licence with access to a vehicle is required for this role as you will be travelling across the Trafford Community locality.
Person specification
* Experience of working in Healthcare
* Knowledge of infection control and safeguarding processes
* Experience of MDT working
* Taking and recording vital signs and other clinical skills after appropriate training
* Evidence of continuing development
* Experience of working in a similar area
* Evidence of working in more than one speciality
Diversity Matters
MFT is 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 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.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
#J-18808-Ljbffr