Overview
Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust are looking to recruit one Nursing Assistant, full time (37.5 hours per week) to join the Children\'s Community Nursing Service. We seek an enthusiastic, caring, well-organised person who is self-motivated. You will be able to work as part of a team, possess good communication skills and demonstrate an understanding of confidentiality.
The role is to support Paediatric clinics, with responsibility to ensure clinics run efficiently. You will help consultants and nursing staff with a variety of clinical tasks in clinics and be responsible for ensuring the clinics have all required equipment, and clinic rooms are maintained. You will be responsible for home deliveries of equipment, and ensuring the maintenance of equipment is up to date and recorded appropriately. Under trained supervision, you will be responsible for planning clinic rotas, and ordering equipment essential to the service.
Main duties of the job
To work as a member of the Children\'s Community Nursing Service to support outpatient clinics throughout the Trust. The Children\'s Community Nursing Assistant will work under the supervision and direction of the Children\'s Community Nurses.
* Provide a welcoming and well organised outpatient clinic environment and support medical colleagues in delivering high quality outpatient services.
* Responsible for the care, maintenance and tracking of all electronic equipment.
* Responsible for essential equipment delivery to children accessing the Children\'s Community Nursing Service.
To communicate with children, their parents, carers and others in clinics, schools or other community locations to ensure delivery of child focused and family centred care. When required provide care and support as directed by the Children\'s Community Nurses, to meet the individual health needs of the child or young person.
Working for your organisation
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. We opened the state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital. This is an area with opportunities to live and work in a dynamic NHS environment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities include supporting paediatric clinics, communicating with families, and performing administrative duties such as recording clinical information on systems, maintaining and tracking electronic equipment, and delivering essential equipment to children at home. A full driver\'s licence and access to your own vehicle are required.
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