Nursing Assistant

2 months ago

Wallsend, United Kingdom Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen for Band 3 Nursing Assistants to join our Multi Disciplinary Team within our Community Response Service. The successful applicant will be keen to work in a busy, friendly and developing integrated community team.

They will be expected to work flexibly across Northumberland and North Tyneside

They will be expected to be part of a shift pattern of 8 am starts and 8pm finishes that will include BH and weekends.
- 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 acute and chronic health problems. Although the post holder receives support and supervision from the MDT they are expected to work unsupervised in the patients own home, and in residential home environments.

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.
- The role will include
- The performance of personal care tasks and clinical interventions delegated by the MDT including simple dressings, continence/catheter/bowel care, eye drops etc.
- The delivery of personal care and support to patients and their families including the provision of emotional support
- Maintaining records of care delivery within care plans and on clinical computer systems including the completion of specimen request forms
- The performance of diagnostic tests either requested by other practitioners or identified through the interpretation of patient records in accordance with local protocols. Such tests include blood pressure measurement, temp, pulse, resps, O2 levels, fluid balance ECGs, blood collection, and blood glucose estimation etc.

Working with Virtual monitoring technology
- The safe moving and handling of patients and inanimate loads including the selection and safe use of appropriate equipment / aids

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