Nursing Assistant

at  Northumbria Healthcare NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity for a suitable candidate has become available for a Band 3 Nursing Assistant to work at our Urgent Treatment Centre at Wansbeck General Hospital. The role involves assisting the qualified nursing staff in the delivery of high quality direct and indirect patient care. To also provide assistance and support to patients, carers and the multi-disciplinary team. The successful candidate is to be excellent at maintaining high clinical standards.
Full Training will be provided
To assist the Nursing team in all aspects of treatment including wound closure, fractured bones and assess with observations and report to Qualified if any concerns.
Ability to use clinical systems and send samples etc as required.
skilled in venepuncture and cannulation, ECG recording.
Maintain infection control standards in the department and take part in restocking of the department.
To support junior and senior members of the team.
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, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
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

Please refer the Job description for details