Job summary
- Main area
- Children's Community Nursing
- Grade
- 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-7425840IO
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Children's Community Nursing Team Child Health Centre Wansbeck General Hospital
- Town
- Ashington
- Salary
- £24,937 - £26,598 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Nursing Assistant Children's Community Nursing Team
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.
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Job overview
Job overview
Northumbria healthcare foundation trust are looking to recruit one Nursing Assistant, full time (at 37.5 hours per week) to join the Children's Community Nursing Service, we are seeking an enthusiastic caring well organised person who is self motivated. You will have to be able to work as part of a team, possess good communication skills. You will be required to demonstrate an understanding of confidentiality.
The role will be to support with Paediatric clinics, with responsibility to ensure clinics run efficiently. You will help consultants and nursing staff with a variety of clinical tasks in clinics and be responsible for ensuring the clinics have all required equipment, and clinic rooms are maintained. You will be responsible for home deliveries of equipment, and ensuring the maintenance of equipment is up to date and recorded appropriately. Under trained supervision, you will be responsible for planning clinic rotas, and ordering equipment essential to the service.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job
To work as a member of the Children's Community Nursing Service to support outpatient clinics throughout the Trust. The children's Community Nursing Assistant will work under the supervision and direction of the Children's Community Nurses.
The three main aspects of the service you will be supporting are:
1) Provide a welcoming and well organised outpatient clinic environment and to support medical colleagues in delivering high quality out patient services.
2) Responsible for the care, maintenance and tracking of all electronic equipment.
3) Responsible for essential equipment delivery to children accessing the Children's Community Nursing Service.
To communicate with children, their parents, carers and others in clinics, schools or other community locations to ensure delivery of child focused and family centred care.
When required provide care and support as directed by the Children's Community Nurses, to meet the individual health needs of the child or young person.
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
Job overview
Northumbria healthcare foundation trust are looking to recruit one Nursing Assistant, full time (at 37.5 hours per week) to join the Children's Community Nursing Service, we are seeking an enthusiastic caring well organised person who is self motivated. You will have to be able to work as part of a team, possess good communication skills. You will be required to demonstrate an understanding of confidentiality.
The role will be to support with Paediatric clinics, with responsibility to ensure clinics run efficiently. You will help consultants and nursing staff with a variety of clinical tasks in clinics and be responsible for ensuring the clinics have all required equipment, and clinic rooms are maintained. You will be responsible for home deliveries of equipment, and ensuring the maintenance of equipment is up to date and recorded appropriately. Under trained supervision, you will be responsible for planning clinic rotas, and ordering equipment essential to the service.
Main duties of the job
To work as a member of the Children's Community Nursing Service to support outpatient clinics throughout the Trust. The children's Community Nursing Assistant will work under the supervision and direction of the Children's Community Nurses.
The three main aspects of the service you will be supporting are:
1) Provide a welcoming and well organised outpatient clinic environment and to support medical colleagues in delivering high quality out patient services.
2) Responsible for the care, maintenance and tracking of all electronic equipment.
3) Responsible for essential equipment delivery to children accessing the Children's Community Nursing Service.
To communicate with children, their parents, carers and others in clinics, schools or other community locations to ensure delivery of child focused and family centred care.
When required provide care and support as directed by the Children's Community Nurses, to meet the individual health needs of the child or young person.
Working for your 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, 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! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To work as a member of the Children’s Community Nursing Service to support paediatric clinics. The Children’s Community Nursing Assistant will work under the supervision and direction of the Children’s Community Nurses.
The main aspects of the service you will be supporting are;
When required provide a welcoming, and well-organised out-patient clinic environment and to support medical colleagues in delivering high quality out-patient services.
To communicate with children, their parents, carers and others in clinics to ensure delivery of child focused and family centred care.
To support the service with a wide range of administrative duties, which will include (but not exhaustive) recording clinical information on SystmOne and Mediviewer, maintaining and tracking electronic equipment and delivery of essential equipment to children at home.
Must have a full drivers licence and access to own vehicle.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of care and related procedures, clinical observations, relevant legislation
- Completion of a competency-based programme or equivalent relevant experience
- Level 3 qualification in a healthcare related subject or a portfolio of equivalent demonstrable experience
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Previous care experience in a health or social care setting
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Understanding of patient’s basic needs
- Verbal and written communication skills
- Must be able to demonstrate the English language proficiency level required for this post
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of completed competencies aligned to the service area
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
- nicole Carmichael
- Job title
- Children's Community Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01670 564070
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