Senior Nursing Assistant in Ultrasound

3 weeks ago

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

Job overview

We have the exciting opportunity for a skilled, motivated and enthusiastic individual to join us at Guys and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. 
The successful applicant will work across both Guys and St Thomas' sites and occasionally within the Evelina London Childrens Hospital. 

We are seeking a senior nursing assistant with excellent communication skills, both verbal and written. 
You should have developed skills in IT and the ability to use Microsoft packages to provide comprehensive administrative and clinical support to the departments and multidisciplinary team. Experience using hospital computer systems ( EPIC) is highly beneficial.

You will have responsibility for ensuring the safety and wellbeing of service users, and always working in a manner that promotes dignity and person centred care principles which embody the Trust values. 

You will need the ability to work on your own initiative as well as within a team. Successful applicants will work closely with Radiologists, Sonographers, Nurses, Administrative and clerical staff and an established team of Nursing Assistants.

Organisation of the department, chaperoning patients and assisting clinicians during procedures will be an essential part of your role. An ability to adapt to changing situations and be flexible is essential. 

Main duties of the job

Carrying out assigned tasks within the ultrasound department (across three different sites) as part of clinical team in support of doctors, sonographers and registered nurses and to undertake some aspects of care provision without direct supervision.

Organising daily running of the area and liaising with service users. Ensuring the safety and well being of services users, and always working in a manner that promotes dignity and person centered care principles.

Working for our organisation

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 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.

Our trust values are: 

put patients first. take pride in what we do. respect others. strive to be the best. act with integrity.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Liaise with the radiologists, sonographers and ward staff to organise the scanning and transportation of inpatients. Supervise patients waiting for their scans; this will include inpatients who might become unwell and require attention/escalation. To restock the scan rooms and maintain stock level regularly. To give patient experience feedback forms to patients. To ensure the waiting areas are clean and tidy. To liaise with the infection control team to organise deep cleans of scan rooms where required. Must be aware of IPC principles. To ensure the ultrasound rooms and machines are clean. To support the Ultrasound lists by taking patients into the allocated room when required. To load the patients details onto the Ultrasound machine and confirm patient identification. Assist the patient with positioning themselves on the ultrasound couch. Check the body part to be scanned and prep the patient where applicable.

Please see attached job description for full details.

Person specification

Education

Essential criteria

Evidence of general education Computer literacy

Desirable criteria

NVQ3 or similar

Experience

Essential criteria

Previous experience in customer care or patient facing role

Desirable criteria

Experience using EPIC or similar

Personal skills

Essential criteria

Understands the importance of patient dignity and confidentiality Demonstrates empathy and compassion

Desirable criteria

Trained to take clinical observations Experience assisting with procedures or other medical tasks

Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.

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