Band 3 Senior Nursing Assistant | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Are you an experienced band 2 nursing assistant looking for a challenge and interested in working in an exciting and rewarding hospital?
Are you already a band 3 Senior nursing assistant who would like to challenge themselves to a different environment?
We are recruiting to a number of full time vacancies across the trust, including, wards, out patients and theatres.
We are looking for motivated and enthusiastic individuals who are caring and kind to join our fantastic teams.
These roles will allow you to develop and gain a range of additional skills which will enhance your own personal development whilst contributing to the high standard of care expected on our wards.
You will be expected to work with the wider multi-disciplinary team and support junior colleagues such as nursing assistants and student nurses.
Closing date: 18th March 2025 at midnightInterview date: 31st March 2025 - Face to face at St Thomas' hospital, Westminster
NB - Interviews will be held face to face only. We will be offering transparent interview questions where some of the questions will be sent to you in advance if you are shortlisted. If you do not receive these please contact recruitment.
We take pride in setting good standard of care and ensuring our nursing workforce has the necessary skills to deliver the best care possible.
We are looking for enthusiastic, motivated, experienced nursing assistants. You will need to have excellent communication and time management skills.
Team work is very important to us - you will be joining a committed teams across the trust so being a team player is essential.
We really value our Nursing Assistants' role in our ability to provide holistic care to our patients. You will need a flexible approach, be dedicated and able to role model an excellent level of patient care and experience. We actively support the buddy programme and other opportunities to develop further.
In order to be part of our Senior Nursing Assistant (Band 3) team, we would like you to have the following qualifications:
- Experience in a hospital setting
- GSCE Maths and English Desirable
- Good standard of literacy and numerical skills is essential
- NVQ III in Healthcare and or a completed Care Certificate Programme which is an essential criterion for this role
- A calm and kind approach
- Willingness to learn and develop knowledge and skills in caring for complex patients with medical conditions.
If this sounds like you, then we would love to hear from you!
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.- To assist under supervision in the delivery of fundamental nursing care and a range of clinical duties in liaison with the multidisciplinary team, to ensure the effective and efficient running of the ward/ service.
- To contribute to the implementation and progression of a range of patient treatment and care packages as delegated by a registered healthcare professional; reporting back on progress
- To provide day to day supervision and /or support co-ordination of learners and junior staff acting both as a leader and role model for Nursing Assistants/Healthcare Support Worker (band 2)
- To maintain own personal development with support from ward/departmental manager and provide support and guidance to others to help their development
- To demonstrate a broad skill base, planning own duties and organising own day to day work activities
- To ensure the safety and wellbeing of service users, and always working in a manner that promotes dignity and human rights through the adoption of high quality person centred care and principles.
Please see Job description for full details.
This advert closes on Tuesday 18 Mar 2025