Nursing Assistant

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Haltwhistle; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A community healthcare provider in the United Kingdom is seeking a Nursing Assistant to support qualified nurses in caring for patients with various conditions. Responsibilities include observing patients and reporting back to nurses. This role is essential in providing high-quality patient care in a community hospital setting.

Qualifications

• Assisting and supporting qualified nurses.
• Carrying out observations on patients and reporting back.

Responsibilities

• Provide care for patients suffering from various conditions.

Job description

Haltwhistle Hospital is a 17 bedded community hospital with a small minor injuries unit. We take patients suffering from a variety of ailments, plus carrying out rehabilitation from surgery

We care for patients who require palliative care, symptom management and end of life care

Role Overview

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.

The Nursing Assistant role is assisting and supporting qualified nurses to provide care for patients suffering from a variety of conditions.

Carrying out observations on patients and reporting back to qualified nurses.

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.

Contact

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jacqueline Banks Job title: Ward Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01434 362200

Valerie Reynolds

Ward Manager

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