Nursing Assistant

at  Northumbria Healthcare NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Opportunities are available for enthusiastic, motivated nursing assistants to join our Out Patient Nursing Team. The posts available are for various hours on permanent contracts and are based at Hexham General Hospital with an agreement that you may be required to work in other areas of the Trust.
Full and Part time hours will be considered.
The successful candidate will work as part of the Nursing Healthcare Team to deliver out patient services to a wide range of specialities.
You should have excellent communication skills when dealing with patients and colleagues to ensure quality care is provided to patients in a timely fashion.
Previous Out patient experience desirable but not essential as we have a comprehensive training package and will provide a supportive learning environment, encouraging you with your own personal development. Experience in hospital setting essential.
Supporting the nurses in clinic management
Phlebotomy
Working across multiple services delivering out patient care with shift patterns supporting 7 day service
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.
To assist the qualified nursing staff in the delivery of high quality direct and in direct 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 department environment.
Support the running of clinics
Cross-site working, car driver desirable.
Managing own clinical caseload.
Undertake patient care in the Out Patient setting

Please refer the Job description for details