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An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our team on the Palliative Care Unit in Wansbeck General Hospital. We are looking to recruit on a permanent basis, two motivated and enthusiastic nursing assistants to join this well-established team in providing excellent supportive personalised care.
The successful candidates will work as part of the Palliative Care Multi-Disciplinary Team to deliver compassionate care, demonstrating kindness to patients and their families at this uncertain time of life. Our primary function is to support patients with a palliative condition in the last few weeks/months of life.
We are looking for individuals with excellent communication skills who can liaise with the wider MDT, patients, and relatives about emotive and difficult conversations. Both verbal and written communication must be of the highest standard.
The successful candidates should have a problem-solving approach to complex situations, remaining calm and reassuring during difficult times.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
To provide safe and high quality care to patients with palliative care needs and or at the end of life.
Monitor patient’s condition during their admission by undertaking a range of delegated clinical care duties e.g recording blood pressure, blood glucose monitoring, observing patients for signs of pain and/or distress and report accurately any change to the registered staff.
Deal with highly distressing situations when a patient dies during a shift following Trust policies for the confirmation of expected death out of hours and reporting appropriately during office hours.
Provide family and carers with emotional, physical and spiritual support during planned interventions.
Provide nutrition to patients presenting food and fluid in an acceptable way depending on patient’s needs and capabilities.
Provide patient’s mouth care regimes to maintain a healthy mouth and patient comfort.
Provide hands on support and care to patients. You should have a willingness and passion to provide high quality, essential nursing care to ensure comfort and support to our patients and family's.
Contribute to and works with team to provide high quality service to patients and carers requiring care & support in the end stages of life.
Use equipment appropriately, once trained in the use and care of simple equipment.
Record care in patients care plans in the electronic patient record Clinical Noting and Nervecentre and demonstrate high standards of record keeping.
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.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Leanne Hale Job title: Ward Manager Email address: leanne.hale@nhct.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01670 529960
Jennifer Cross - Ward Sister
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