Job Description
Nursing Assistant Band 2 - Ward 10 Cardiology
An exciting opportunity has arisen on Ward 10 NSECH for a nursing assistant to join our team. Ward 10 is a busy 30 bedded cardiology unit which includes 6 coronary care beds.
We are looking for experienced candidateswho havecommitmentto ensuring safe and high quality care is delivered to our patients, as well as being a role model and supporting other members of the MDT.
You will be expected to work as part of a dynamic nursing team, delivering all aspects of care to patients and have excellentcommunicationskills. Previous experience in a similar setting isdesirablebut not essential. This post will be rotationalbetweenday/night shift and cover seven days a week.
The main purpose of the role is to plan, implement and evaluate nursing care working as a member of the multidisciplinary team under the supervision of the qualified nurses and the ward manager.
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!
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- 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 .