Job summary
- Main area
- Health Care Assistant
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent: 0.6 WTE
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (3 x 7.5 days per week)
- Job ref
- 220-WHT-3141
- Employer
- Whittington Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Whittington Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £35,964 - £43,780 pro-rata Per annum inclusive of HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Staff Nurse- Outpatients
NHS AfC: Band 5
Covid-19 Vaccination
Getting vaccinated, and getting a booster, remains the best defence against COVID-19.
We encourage and support staff to get COVID-19 vaccine and a booster dose as and when they are eligible.
Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Whittington Health NHS Trust.
For our current apprenticeship vacancies, please go to https://www.gov.uk/apply-apprenticeship and use Keyword ‘Whittington’
By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.
Job overview
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work according to the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and relevant professional guidelines and take responsibility for:
- Protecting and supporting the health of individual patients and clients
- Assessment of care and health education needs
- Development, implementation, and evaluation of programmes of care including referring patient to community services when necessary.
- Under supervision, to gain experience and skills in Clinical Practice, facilitation and teaching and management as appropriate.
- To work in accordance with Whittington Health Nursing and Midwifery Strategy and contribute towards achieving the Trust objectives.
- To maintain effective communication
- To take charge of the department in the absence of senior nursing staff following performance appraisal review.
- Provide support to the clinical nurse specialists in the various outpatient clinics.
- Assist in carrying out Health & Safety, Fire and hand Hygiene audits as required.
- Support the Health Care Assistants and assess their competence where necessary.
Working for our organisation
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder is expected to have a flexible “can do” approach in ensuring the work of the department is carried out to the required high standards. The post holder will contribute to the continuous evaluation of systems to improve the service and meet targets.
Communication
- Assist patients to gain access to health and social care, information and support relevant to their needs.
- Participate in the promotion and maintenance of effective communication with the patient and their carer(s)
- Provide information which enables patients to make choices about adopting a healthier lifestyle.
- Complete patient documentation correctly, appropriately and in a timely manner ensuring this is filed properly in the patients’ medical notes.
- Develop communication skills to convey complex and sensitive information effectively to patients, carer(s) and other staff, overcoming barriers to understanding and providing support during distressing or emotional events. This includes expanded role responsibilities, following appropriate training.
- Maintain patient confidentiality.
- Maintain professional boundaries and working relationships with patients and colleagues.
Personal and People Development
- Educate patients and their carers as required where a need has been identified.
- Participate in annual staff appraisal, staff development and in-service training activities in line with the Knowledge and Skills Framework
- Attend Trust/local orientation programmes, mandatory training sessions and annual updates.
- Be responsible for developing and sustaining own knowledge, clinical skills, and professional awareness in accordance with CPD requirements and maintain a professional profile.
- Help maintain a suitable learning environment for staff and act as a mentor in the supervision and teaching of nursing students/ health care assistants and others to develop their competence.
- Develop own teaching skills and participate in staff/student education programmes that develop competence and performance.
- Assist in the training and developments of Health Care Assistants
- Act as a preceptor/mentor for junior staff nurses
- Take part in reflection and appropriate learning from practice, in order to maintain and develop competence and performance.
Person specification
Qualification and experience
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse Part 1, 2 or relevant section of the register
- Working in a team
- Work in a Health Care or related setting Good standard of written and spoken English
Desirable criteria
- Relevant Mentorship/Teaching Course
Communication
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates awareness of the importance of working as part of the multidisciplinary team
- Communicates effectively verbally, in writing and in electronic formats
- Communicates with patients and carers in an empathetic manner
- Demonstrates understanding of good practice in Customer Care
Personal and people Development
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates understanding of own role within the team
- Willing to produce a personal development plan with Manager
- Willing to develop self & undertake in-house study
Health,Safety and Security
Essential criteria
- Promotes, monitors and maintains best practice in health, safety and security
- Understands importance of decontaminating equipment following use
- Understands principles of Infection Control
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Eugenie Masasa
- Job title
- Deputy Sister
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07834434913
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