Job summary
- Main area
- Palliative Care
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent: Various Hours
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-6203801HN
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Tyneside General Hospital
- Town
- North Shields
- Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Palliative Care Nursing Assistant
Band 3
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). 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 and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Job overview
Various hours considered, based at North Tyneside General Hospital to work within the Palliative Care Support Team. We are looking to recruit on a permanent basis, motivated and enthusiastic Support Workers to join this well-established team in providing excellent supportive personalised care.
The team is based in NTGH, North Shields delivering care to all patients who are registered with a GP in North Tyneside, therefore the successful applicant must be able to fulfil the transport requirements of the post including at times of inclement or bad weather.
The successful candidate will work as part of the Palliative Care Support Team to deliver compassionate care and demonstrating kindness to patients at end of life and their families in their own homes.
The Team’s primary function is to support patients with a palliative condition in the last few weeks/months of life. The Team provides a home visiting service delivering care and support for both patients and relatives.
We are looking for someone 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 candidate should have a problem-solving approach to complex situations, remaining calm and reassuring during difficult times.
Main duties of the job
Provide care as planned by the District Nurse for patients with palliative care needs and or at the end of life.
Monitor patient’s condition during a visit or shift and report accurately any change or deterioration to either the Team Leader or District Nurse or Out of hours nurses.
Deal with highly distressing situations when a patient dies during a visit or 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 the 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.
Support patients and carers to manage disability, loss and change.
Use equipment appropriately, once trained in the use and care of simple equipment.
Record care in patients care plans in the electronic patient record (System One) and demonstrate high standards of record keeping.
Working for our 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, 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are looking for applicants who have excellent communication skills, who work well as part of a team and have a flexible adaptable approach to meet the care needs of a broad range of patients. The post will require you to work unsocial hours, weekends and Bank Holidays providing a service 365 days of the year working a 2 shift pattern of days and evenings. Working alongside the Senior Community Nurse for the service, the District Nursing service and Specialist Palliative Service you will be able to undertake support worker duties to an exceptionally high standard.
Please note, it is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role.
The successful post holder must be able to role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the Trust.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Appreciation of community care philosophy and procedures gained either through formal qualification or experience
- NVQ Level 2 or 3 in care or the equivalent level of skill and knowledge gained through experience and competence assessment
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Katharine Russell
- Job title
- Clinical Senior Staff Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 2934377
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