Nursing Assistant

NHS; Ashington; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job description

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Are you interested in working in a busy, dynamic and friendly Outpatient department, to deliver a modern day outpatient service?

We are looking for a motivated and flexible Band 3 Healthcare Assistant to join our Outpatient team.

We work across multiple Outpatient areas to deliver a seven day service. You will be required to support and manage trauma and orthopaedic clinics based at our specialist emergency hospital at Cramlington, as well as working at our new outpatient department at Morpeth View and Wansbeck General Hospital.

We will provide a supportive learning environment and encourage personal and professional development.

You must have outpatient, hospital or clinical experience. NVQ level 3 is essential or relevant outpatient experience and phlebotomy experience and skills. A car driver is essential to the post.

Main duties of the job

1. To assist in consultant clinics.
2. Patient observations and recording results electronically.

About us

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 responsibilities

1. Working across sites at NSECH, Morpeth and Wansbeck.
2. To assist in the day to day running of the department.
3. To cover evening and weekend clinics when required.
4. The ability to travel across sites timely on split shifts.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Completion of a competency-based programme or equivalent relevant experience.
• NVQ Level 3 qualification in a healthcare related subject and evidence of experience.
• Evidence of completed competencies aligned to the service area.
• Extensive experience in outpatients and clinic settings.
• Evidence of delivering phlebotomy in a clinical environment.

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.