Job overview

Assistant Practitioner / Trainee Assistant Practitioner - Hospital at Night 73.5hrs available full-time or part-time

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within the Hospital at Night team at the Cumberland Infirmary Hospital at Carlisle. We are recruiting Assistant Practitioners or Trainee Assistant Practitioners (an opportunity to train and become Assistant Practitioner) or equivalent on a permanent basis.  

Here you will be a part of an enthusiastic team, caring for a multitude of patients and conditions who require care during the evening and night. You will use your clinical skills to support the advanced nurse practitioners and medical teams with a variety of tasks across the organisation.  

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Main duties of the job

• Manage and provide all aspects of patient care.
• Act in accordance with the Trust Policies.
• Assist a wide range of professionals in the  team as necessary.
• Demonstrate practice based on current advances in nursing practice and research.
• Comply with infection prevention and control procedures at all times.
• Comply with responsibility to safeguard adults and children, ensuring attendance at appropriate training.
• Maintain accurate records of the care given, ensuring accurate data input into computerised systems.
• Assist in developing an environment that supports the value of nursing care.
• Liaise and communicate with members of the nursing and multidisciplinary team.
• Participate in the monitoring of standards of care.
• Contribute to the continuing development of the unit philosophy.
• Participate in the Trust clinical governance agenda, leading on a benchmark from the Essence of Care initiative.
• Ensure that the Trust policies and guidelines relevant to the unit are given due consideration.
• Actively participate in the Trust risk management strategy.
• Contribute to the Trust patient care and public involvement strategy.
• Participate in local bed management for appropriate patient care.

Working for our organisation

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding hospital and health services to half a million people. Established on 1st October 2019, the Trust is creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout north Cumbria and beyond. We’re responsible for delivering over 70 services across 15 main locations and we employ more than 6,500 members of staff.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of ‘safe, high quality care every time’.

• Being a clinically led organisation
• Quality and safety at the heart
• A positive patient experience every time
• A great place to work
• Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. There is an expectation for all staff to support this by familiarising yourself with the Trust’s sustainability initiatives such as waste and recycling, going paperless, videoconferencing, sustainable transport and others.

We encourage you to think about what you can do as an individual and within your team to contribute in to embedding carbon reduction into the everyday running of our organisation.