Nursing Assistant

Northumbria Group.; Cramlington; Remote; GBP 26,000 - 27,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & wellbeing programme

Staff networks

Flexi working opportunities

Generous annual leave & pension

Lease car & electronics scheme

Training programmes

Savings scheme via salary sacrifice

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking Nursing Assistants to join the Gynaecology Nursing team across Wansbeck General Hospital, North Tyneside General Hospital and Hexham General Hospital, with duties at the Emergency Gynaecology unit in Cramlington. Full and part-time roles, with interview-based site assignment.

You will support qualified nurses, assist with outpatient and ward duties, and uphold high clinical standards across multiple sites within the trust.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of care and related procedures, clinical observations, relevant legislation.
• Completion of a competency-based programme or equivalent relevant experience
• Level 3 qualification in a healthcare related subject or a portfolio of equivalent demonstrable experience

Responsibilities

• To assist the qualified nursing staff in the delivery of high quality direct and indirect patient care.
• To provide assistance and support to patients, carers and the multi disciplinary team.
• To maintain high clinical standards and assist with clinics and monitoring.
• To help maintain a clean and safe ward environment and support stock management.

Skills

Care procedures

Clinical observations

Interpersonal skills

Education

Level 3 health care qualification

Competency-based programme

Job description

Site Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital Town Cramlington Salary £25,760 - £27,476 pro rata per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 28/10/2026 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.

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

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

We have Full time / part time vacancies for Nursing Assistants to join our Gynaecology Nursing team. We cover 3 base sites Wansbeck General Hospital , North Tyneside General Hospital and Hexham General Hospital with Emergency Gynaecology at Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, Cramlington and Ward 8 at North Tyneside. Hours and base sites will be discussed at interview.

Your role will be to assist the qualified nurses in the assessment, plan, implementation and evaluation of nursing care and give basic nursing care

Manage own healthcare led clinics, using good time management and interpersonal skills under direct supervision of Nurse in Charge.

Providing support for patients attending the outpatient setting, assistance with any mobility needs under direct or indirect supervision. To report accurately perceived changes in a patient manner, observation. Record basic observations for patients attending the department.

One post holder will be based in Northumbria and the other’s based at Wansbeck / North Tyneside but will be required to work across all base sites as part of the wider Gynaecology Nursing team.

All Training will be given in clinical areas.

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

To assist the qualified nursing staff in the delivery of high quality direct and indirect patient care. To provide assistance and support to patients, carers and the multi-disciplinary team.

To maintain high clinical standards, manage own healthcare led clinics, using good time management and interpersonal skills under direct supervision of Nurse in Charge.

To help maintain a clean and safe ward environment, be responsible for checking stock levels and ordering supplies via our IPROC system all training will be given.

Working for our 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, 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

To assist the qualified nursing staff in the delivery of high quality direct and indirect patient care.

To provide assistance and support to patients, carers and the multi disciplinary team.

To maintain high clinical standards.

To help maintain a clean and safe clinic environment.

Support patients potentially receiving bad news.

Person specification

Qualifications and Experience

• Knowledge of care and related procedures, clinical observations, relevant legislation
• Completion of a competency-based programme or equivalent relevant experience
• Level 3 qualification in a healthcare related subject or a portfolio of equivalent demonstrable experience

Experience and Knowledge

• Previous care experience in a health or social care setting

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.

Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!

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 Corrine Farrell Job title Ward Manager Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 01670564142 Additional information

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