Nursing Assistant Children's Community Nursing Team

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Ashington; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in Ashington is seeking a full-time Nursing Assistant to support the Children's Community Nursing Service. The successful candidate will assist in paediatric clinics, ensure equipment delivery, and maintain clinic environments. Strong communication skills and a full driver's license are essential. This role offers rewarding experience in caring for children and families in the community.

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic and caring individual.
• Must have a full driver's licence and access to own vehicle.
• Self-motivated with the ability to work efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Support outpatient clinics throughout the Trust.
• Maintain and track all electronic equipment.
• Ensure equipment delivery to children accessing services.

Skills

Good communication skills

Ability to work as part of a team

Organizational skills

Understanding of confidentiality

Job description

A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

Job overview: Northumbria healthcare foundation trust are looking to recruit one Nursing Assistant, full time (at 30 hours per week) to join the Children's Community Nursing Service. We are seeking an enthusiastic caring well organised person who is self motivated. You will have to be able to work as part of a team, possess good communication skills. You will be required to demonstrate an understanding of confidentiality.

The role will be to support with Paediatric clinics, with responsibility to ensure clinics run efficiently. You will help consultants and nursing staff with a variety of clinical tasks in clinics and be responsible for ensuring the clinics have all required equipment, and clinic rooms are maintained. You will be responsible for home deliveries of equipment, and ensuring the maintenance of equipment is up to date and recorded appropriately. Under trained supervision, you will be responsible for planning clinic rotas, and ordering equipment essential to the service.

Main duties of the job

To work as a member of the Children's Community Nursing Service to support outpatient clinics throughout the Trust. The children's Community Nursing Assistant will work under the supervision and direction of the Children's Community Nurses.

The three main aspects of the service you will be supporting are:

• Provide a welcoming and well organised outpatient clinic environment and to support medical colleagues in delivering high quality out patient services.
• Responsible for the care, maintenance and tracking of all electronic equipment.
• Responsible for essential equipment delivery to children accessing the Children's Community Nursing Service.

To communicate with children, their parents, carers and others in clinics, schools or other community locations to ensure delivery of child focused and family centred care.

When required provide care and support as directed by the Children's Community Nurses, to meet the individual health needs of the child or young person.

Working for Northumbria Healthcare

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.

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To work as a member of the Children’s Community Nursing Service to support paediatric clinics. The Children’s Community Nursing Assistant will work under the supervision and direction of the Children’s Community Nurses.

Must have a full driver's licence and access to own vehicle.