Senior Charge Nurse Assistant

NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde; Paisley; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde is seeking a permanent Senior Charge Nurse Assistant for the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley. The role involves providing administrative support to ensure high-quality patient care within the ward. Ideal candidates will have excellent communication skills and relevant NHS experience.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills and ability to work well in a team.
• Experience in a busy NHS environment beneficial.
• Good knowledge of software packages and keyboard skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide secretarial and administrative support to senior charge nurse.
• Ensure effective communication within the ward team.
• Support professional leadership and team objectives.

Skills

Organisational skills

Communication

Teamwork

Typing experience

Job description

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NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is one of the largest healthcare systems in the UK employing around 40,000 staff in a wide range of clinical and non-clinical professions and job roles. We deliver acute hospital, primary, community and mental health care services to a population of over 1.15 million and a wider population of 2.2 million when our regional and national services are included.

Shift pattern for this post is Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm.

An opportunity has arisen for a permanent Senior Charge Nurse Assistant based within level 2 at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley and this post will cover 2 bed holding areas in receiving Medical Assessment Unit and Acute Medical Unit.

You will provide secretarial and administrative support to the senior charge nurse this allows the senior charge nurse to be visible within the ward area, ensuring a high level of care is provided and safe, effective practice is delivered through visible role modelling.

You will provide a proactive and effective administration and secretarial support thus supporting the effective professional leadership of the ward, ensuring effective communication from and within the ward team. Contributing to the team objectives through delivery of effective administrative and secretarial and support

Knowledge, training and/or experience required to do the job:

You will be organised and has excellent communication skills and can demonstrate being able to work well in a team. You will have a good level of knowledge of software packages and good key board skills with proven typing experience. Experience of working in a busy NHS environment and understanding of NHS inter-disciplinary networks would be advantageous. You will have the ability to work unsupervised, using own your own initiative.

Details on how to contact the Recruitment Service can be found within the Candidate Information Packs

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde encourages applications from all sections of the community. We promote a culture of inclusion across the organisation and are proud of the diverse workforce we have.

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