Nursing Assistant-Ward 111
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Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 2 Nursing Assistant to join Ward 111.
Ward 111 is a highly specialised, multi skilled surgical ward. Do you have an interest in delivering high quality care in a dynamic and forward thinking busy ward?
As a nursing assistant within this area, you will be trained to have extensive skills to support a highly motivated and established working team. Specialities including ENT, plastic, maxilo facial, ophthalmology, breast and general surgical patients. If you have the qualities to join this team and feel you can face the challenge of our unique clinical area offering both emergency assessment and inpatient care for a wide range of specialities, then we would welcome your application.
Shifts do include early, late, night and weekends and you would be required to do all shifts. Shifts are 12 hours in duration or 6 - 7.5 hours depending on your need.
If you feel you have the attributes for this exciting new development, please apply!
Main duties of the job
- Maintaining patients pressure areas
- Ensuring patient safety
- Providing nutrition to patients with different and complex needs
- Helping patients with elimination
- Assessing patients and escalating concerns to members of the team
- Working well within a team
- Being professional and having good communication skills with all members of the multi-disciplinary team
- Completing and providing patients care to a high standard
- Reliability
- Caring for patients that have a tracheostomy in place.
- Caring for patients that have undergone significant life changing surgery.
About us
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. We serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. The Trust has around 1,450 inpatient beds across two sites in Stoke-on-Trent and Stafford. Our 11,000 strong workforce provide emergency treatment, planned operations and medical care from Royal Stoke University Hospital and County Hospital in Stafford.
We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales. We have put together a wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their potential. Our goal is to be a world-class centre of achievement, where patients receive the highest standards of care and the best people come to learn, work and research.
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff is really important to us. We offer a range of options for our staff to help maintain a good work-life balance including full time, part time hours and bank hours. We are also committed to offering flexible working wherever we can and where relevant to the role and the service, agile working. You can select your preferences upon application.
Details
Date posted
29 June 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 2
Salary
£22,383 a year pro rata pa
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time
Reference number
205-5418337
Job locations
Ward 111, UHNM
Newcastle Road
Stoke on Trent
ST46QG
Employer details
Employer name
University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust
Address
Ward 111, UHNM
Newcastle Road
Stoke on Trent
ST46QG
Employer's website
https://www.uhnm.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
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