Nursing Assistant Children's Community Nursing Team

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job overview

Northumbria healthcare foundation trust are looking to recruit one Nursing Assistant, full time (at 37.5 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.

Main duties of the job

To work as a member of the Children's Community Nursing Service to support outpatient clinics throughout the Trust. The children's Community Nursing Assistant will work under the supervision and direction of the Children's Community Nurses.

The three main aspects of the service you will be supporting are:

1) Provide a welcoming and well organised outpatient clinic environment and to support medical colleagues in delivering high quality out patient services.

2) Responsible for the care, maintenance and tracking of all electronic equipment.

3) Responsible for essential equipment delivery to children accessing the Children's Community Nursing Service.

To communicate with children, their parents, carers and others in clinics, schools or other community locations 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 or young person.

Working for your organisation

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 isnt, 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.

Detailed job description and main 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, maintaining and tracking electronic equipment and delivery of essential equipment to children at home.

Must have a full drivers licence and access to own vehicle.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Knowledge of care and related procedures, clinical observations, relevant legislation
• Completion of a competency-based programme or equivalent relevant experience
• Level 3 qualification in a healthcare related subject or a portfolio of equivalent demonstrable experience

Experience and Knowledge

Essential

• Previous care experience in a health or social care setting

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Understanding of patient's basic needs
• Verbal and written communication skills
• Must be able to demonstrate the English language proficiency level required for this post

Desirable

• Evidence of completed competencies aligned to the service area

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Children's Community Nursing Team Child Health Centre Wansbeck General Hospital

Woodhorn Lane

Ashington

NE63 9JJ

Employer's website

https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)