Nursing Assistant

Northumbria Group.; Blyth; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 27,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Staff wellbeing programme

Pension scheme

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Blyth is seeking an enthusiastic Nursing Assistant to join the Community Nursing Team in Blyth District Nursing.

You will work under supervision, provide personal and delegated nursing care, undertake diagnostic tests, and support housebound patients and care home residents. Flexible working options and a strong development pathway are offered.

Qualifications

• Knowledge and understanding of community care philosophy and procedures.
• NVQ Level 3 in care or the equivalent level of skill and knowledge.
• Previous experience of working in a health or social care setting.

Responsibilities

• The Nursing Assistant performs personal care tasks and clinical interventions delegated by registered nurses.
• Delivers personal care and support to patients including emotional support.
• Assists with equipment collection, use, and decontamination between uses.
• Maintains communication with patients, relatives, colleagues and other agencies to ensure continuity of care.
• Monitors stock levels and re-stocks supplies as necessary.
• Works unsupervised in patients' homes, surgeries and residential settings when required.

Skills

Communication skills

Education

NVQ Level 3 in care

Job description

Main area Northumberland Community Nursing Service, CSBU, Northumbria Healthcare Trust Grade Band 3 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (Weekend working Will be required. Shifts are 8am-4pm, 12md-8pm, or 8am-8pm) Job ref 319-8310551LH

Site Blyth Community Hospital, Old Ward 1 Town Blyth Salary £25,760 - £27,476 Pro rata per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 21/10/2026 23:59

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). 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 and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you

• Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
• Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
• A range of flexible working opportunities
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
• Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
• Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals to care for our Trust family's children, they offer care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years. There are a number of funding options run by the government to help working parents, including Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare.

Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It’s open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care.

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.

Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic individual to join the Community Nursing Team as a Nursing Assistant within the Blyth District Nursing Team however you may occasionally cover the surrounding teams. The district nursing team work in close Partnership with GPs practices also delivering a service to our housebound and care home patients.

The Trust is committed to provide opportunities for development for all staff to help reach their full potential and if not already obtained there is an expectation that the Care Certificate Programme will be completed. We also provide training opportunities to enhance clinical skills required to provide high and safe quality care in line with the Trusts values.

The Nursing Assistant within a community setting works as a member of a wider community nursing team to delivery clinical care to patients including the performance of diagnostic tests and the delivery of personal and delegated nursing care to individuals with chronic health problems. Although the post holder receives support and supervision from registered nurses she / her is expected to work unsupervised in the patient's own home, the surgery and in residential home environments.

The Nursing Assistant will have delegated responsibility to order and rotate stock to support the team.

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

Main duties of the job

• The performance of personal care tasks and clinical interventions delegated by registered nurses including simple dressings, enemata, catheter care, eye drops etc.
• The delivery of personal care and support to patients with a terminal illness and their families including the provision of emotional support.
• The collection of equipment and the safe use and decontamination of such equipment between each use.
• Good communication skills with patients, relatives and colleagues. Communication with patients, relatives, colleagues and other agencies to ensure the continuity of patient care and onward referral where necessary.
• The collection of equipment and the safe use and decontamination of such equipment between each use.
• The checking of equipment, stock levels and expiry dates re-stocking and re-ordering supplies as necessary.

Working for our organisation

Northumbria 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Nursing Assistant within a community setting works as a member of a wider community nursing team to delivery clinical care to patients including the performance of diagnostic tests and the delivery of personal and delegated nursing care to individuals with chronic health problems. Although the post holder receives support and supervision from registered nurses and are expected to work unsupervised in the patient own home, the surgery and in residential home environments.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Knowledge and understanding of community care philosophy and procedures gained either through formal qualification or experience
• NVQ Level 3 in care or the equivalent level of skill and knowledge gained through experience and competence assessment

Experience & Knowledge

• Previous experience of working in a health or social care setting
• Knowledge and understanding of community care philosophy and procedures gained either through formal qualification or experience

Other Requirement

• It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role.

Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and those who have been looked after by the care system as a child or young person (for example, in foster care, children's homes, kinship or local authority care) who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.

Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Amanda Johnson Job title Team lead Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 07795391590

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