Nursing Assistant

Role Overview & Responsibilities

An exciting opportunity for a suitable candidate has become available for a Band 3 Nursing Assistant to work on our Urgent Treatment Centre at Wansbeck General Hospital. The role involves assisting the qualified nursing staff in the delivery of high quality direct and indirect patient care. To also provide assistance and support to patients, carers and the multi-disciplinary team. The successful candidate is to be excellent at maintaining high clinical standards.

To work under the supervision of a qualified nurse and assist in the implementation of patient care both direct and non-direct.

To assist the qualified nurses in the assessment, plan, implementation and evaluation of nursing care.

To give basic nursing care, e.g. assistance with personal hygiene, eating and drinking, mobility needs under direct or indirect supervision.

To report accurately perceived changes in a patient manner, observation, eating habits etc.

To promote health within the ward setting.

Bladder scans.

Removal of urethral catheters.

Basic stoma care.

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, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.

To assist the qualified nursing staff in the delivery of high quality direct and indirect patient care.

To provide assistance and support to patients, carers and the multi disciplinary team.

To maintain high clinical standards.

To help maintain a clean and safe ward environment