Nursing Assistant Children's Community Nursing Team
A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
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:
- Provide a welcoming and well organised outpatient clinic environment and to support medical colleagues in delivering high quality out patient services.
- Responsible for the care, maintenance and tracking of all electronic equipment.
- 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.
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 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:
- Provide a welcoming and well organised outpatient clinic environment and to support medical colleagues in delivering high quality out patient services.
- Responsible for the care, maintenance and tracking of all electronic equipment.
- 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 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To work as a member of the Children’s Community Nursing Service to support paediatric clinics. 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;
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.
This advert closes on Monday 30 Sep 2024