Senior Nursing Assistant

3 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Full time

A rare opportunity to work on The Vital 5 project across Guys and St Thomas’ outpatient services.
- Are you looking for a new challenge?
- Do you have an interest in improving the health and wellbeing of service users?
- Do you have a passion to motivate patients to manage their own health and wellbeing?
- Do you have the ability to travel to various community and hospital setting within Guys and St Thomas Trust?

This position will support patients and health care professionals with delivery and implementation of the Vital 5 Screening and Make Every Contact Count (MECC). The Vital 5 project advocates for people, communities and organisations to make improvements in/to modifiable risk factors for ill-health. These key drivers have a major impact on health at an individual and population level and are known as The Vital 5: blood pressure, tobacco, alcohol, healthy weight, and mental health.

MECC supports the opportunistic delivery of consistent, simple health messages that signpost residents to services and information making the most of everyday opportunities to empower people to improve health and well-being. MECC is a vehicle supporting person-centred conversations, empowering people to make healthier choices. It is a concept which aims to improve lifestyles and reduce health inequalities.

A MECC approach to Vital 5 aims to prevent ill health, promote good health, and improve detection, management and optimised treatment of existing conditions.

Main duties of the job

Complete assigned tasks as part of clinical team in support of registered nurses and to undertake some aspects of training and care provision without direct supervision.

Undertake vital signs

Work in collaboration with the MECC Practitioner and MECC Matron to support the delivery and embedding of the ‘Making Every Contact Count’ and Vital 5 programme across GSTT Outpatient Services.

Support the delivery of Vital 5 screening

Support other HCAs to deliver Vital 5 / MECC

Attend and contribute to team meetings and events as required

Work flexibly, adapting to the needs of the service and client group while maintaining the integrity of the role

Ability to work to and prioritise deadlines

You will be required to work across all hospital and community sites of Guys & St. Thomas' Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals - Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and - as part of King’s Health Partners - we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organizations, local authorities and charitable bodies

Provide excellent customer care skills to ensure patients come first.

Undertakes a range of delegated clinical care duties to deliver agreed plans of care, acting on own initiative.

To ensure that patients’ receive high quality clinical care and a good patient experience, having regard for their customs, religious beliefs and doctrines.

Recognise and avoid situations that may be detrimental to the health and wellbeing of the individuals.

To act as an advocate for patients within the department, to ensure a patient orientated approach to the delivery of care and to meet standards within the NHS Plan and other relevant guidelines.

Provides support and assistance to professionals in the implementation of plans of care for individual patients

Have the ability to to motivate patients to manage their own health and wellbeing

Please see attached job description for full details

**Closing date**: 18/02/2024

**Interview date**: 27/02/2024


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