Bank Nursing Assistant

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust; Redhill; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 28,000; Part time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in England is seeking compassionate and caring individuals for the nursing assistant role at East Surrey Hospital. This position supports patients and their families, requiring essential qualifications and a good standard of written English. Candidates should demonstrate commitment to care and teamwork, contributing to a highly rated healthcare service.

Benefits

Bespoke training package

Earn while you learn in a supportive environment

Qualifications

• Good standard of written English appropriate to the role.
• Evidence of essential experience for role.
• Meet the essential education/qualifications required for the role.

Responsibilities

• Make a difference to our patients and their families.
• Support nursing teams and care for patients.
• Ensure a comprehensive understanding of the requirements.

Skills

Compassion

Caring attitude

Can-do approach

Education

Mandatory professional registration

Job description

We are looking for compassionate and caring individuals to join our bank team at East Surrey Hospital. We currently have bank availability across the Trust within the medical and surgical divisions as well as our emergency department.

We have a bespoke training package developed to meet the needs of both those new to care and those with previous experience.

All we ask is you bring with you your compassion, care, kindness and a can-do approach, which are attributes we know will help you to thrive in our organisation.

The nursing assistant role is a valued role within our teams, when we asked colleagues to describe the impact they have they used the following words:

• Invaluable
• Supportive
• Inspiring
• Irreplaceable

If you want to make a difference to our patients and their families every day and go home feeling proud, valued and knowing you have made an impact on someone's day, we want to hear from you.

We offer you the opportunity to join our friendly team, whereby you will be supported by both the departments and our temporary staffing team. This will enable you to grow and flourish to reach your full potential.

Main duties of the job

For further information, please see the attached trust job description and person specification for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

About us

We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate and Redhill; a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and a range of outpatient, diagnostic services whilst Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as 'Outstanding' and we are one of the best performing Trusts in England:

• Winners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the year award 2021
• National Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all that we do
• We are in the top 20% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment
• Our staff rate us the best in the country among comparable acute trusts when asked if they would recommend the Trust as a place to work and when asked whether care of patients is the organisation's top priority
• Our workforce are amongst the most motivated in the country; we achieved the top acute hospital score in the country for staff engagement in the last national staff survey

Job responsibilities

Once you understand the requirements outlined in the advert, please ensure your application accurately reflects where you match them. For further information regarding the role please read the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Please be aware that this vacancy may close earlier than the advertised closure date.

Person Specification

criteria

• oEvidence of a good standard of written English appropriate to the role
• oA complete and accurate application
• oSuitability for role evidenced in supporting statement
• oEvidence of essential experience for role
• oMeet the essential education/qualifications required for the role
• oHold the necessary mandatory professional/clinical registration
• oEvidence of the Trust values and behaviours
• oEvidence of any other essential criteria outlined in the person specification

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.