Nursing Assistant

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Patient Lounge as a Nursing Assistant. The hours of working are currently 7am to 9.00pm, 7 days per week. The care group has recently undergone a restructure and this has resulted in an uplift in staff and working hours. New shift patterns are 7am to 7pm and 930am to 9pm.

The Patient lounge will be managed under the Site Management team.

The role of the Nursing Assistant in the patient lounge will be to give support to the trained nurse in the care of patients who are transferred to the Lounge pending discharge to their destination, be this their own home or other community resources. An active pull model may require to assist ward areas in collecting patients to relay to the lounge.

Please note that this advertised vacancy does not meet the UKVI eligibility requirements for a Skilled Worker Visa and therefore HUTH would not be able to issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role.

Main duties of the job

The patient lounge is staffed with 2 trained nurse and 2 untrained member of staff. The patient lounge is pivotal when ensuring early flow out of wards to allow for safety in our emergency and assessment units.

The post holder will need to demonstrate excellent communication and organisation skills and be prepared to communicate with other teams within the hospital and our hospital partners, such as patient transport services.

About us

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.