Job description

Job responsibilities

Nursing Assistants work closely with the registered nurses to provide excellent standards of patient care. Amongst the key responsibilities for this role are:

Providing personal care

Assisting patient mobility where required

Assistant patients to maintain their nutritional and hydration needs as required

Communicating with patients and their relatives

Maintaining a safe and clean patient environment

Ensuring stock levels are maintained

Ensuring that equipment is clean and safely maintained

Person Specification

Values and Behaviours

Essential

• Able to demonstrate the ability to put patients at the heart of what you do and recognising different needs by encouraging a spirit of support, integrity, respect and teamwork.
• Shows pride in the quality of care they provide for patients and learning from successes and setbacks.
• Evidence of commitment to the Oxford University Hospitals vision and values

Education & qualifications

Essential

• To demonstrate literacy and numeracy.
• Motivated to develop knowledge and skills
• Willing to undertake self-development activities to improve clinical effectiveness.

Desirable

• Evidence of Level 2 Diploma or Apprenticeship in Health related subject or willing to work towards
• Evidence of the Care Certificate and understanding of the Code of Conduct for Health Care Support Workers and Adult Social care workers in England.

Clinical Practice

Essential

• Demonstrates awareness of importance of working as part of a team.
• Able to deliver a high standard of care for patients and always striving to improve on what you do through change and innovation.
• Able to communicate effectively with patients/relatives and carers and all members of the multi-disciplinary team.
• Appreciates and accepts individual team members bring a range of different skills and experience
• Able to undertake specific procedures involving physical skills and prolonged moderate physical exertion commensurate with practice area and level of competence.

Desirable

• Experience of the NHS and /or health care requirements
• Knowledge of personal care and related procedures

Planning and Organisation

Essential

• Excellent communication skills.
• Evidence of working in a busy and variable environment
• Flexible approach to shift patterns and unit needs which may involve working in different areas or cross site working
• Able to effectively and appropriately escalate concerns to reduce risk and promote patient safety.
• Able to use initiative within the boundaries of the role
• Evidence of working with the general public as part of a team.
• Ability to act on own initiative and able to motivate oneself

Developing Practice

Essential

• Demonstrate understanding of confidentiality
• Demonstrate insight into role applied for.
• To be willing to learn new skills and to undertake the Care Certificate in the agreed timescales when new to role

Desirable

• Demonstrates ability to question and challenge practice in a constructive way so that standards of patient care are continually evaluated and improved.

Personal & Physical Attributes

Essential

• Able to work under direct and indirect supervision
• Reliable and organised with good time management skills
• Ability to cope effectively under pressure and resilient with maturity to experience potentially distressing situations.
• Good interpersonal skills demonstrating sensitivity and self- awareness. Polite and approachable.
• Smart professional appearance adhering to uniform policy
• Recognise limitations and seek help and guidance and accept constructive criticism
• To support and orientate new staff.
• Essential IT skills in order to access required systems such as electronic patient records.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

John Radcliffe Hospital

Headley Way

Oxford

OX3 9DU

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.ouh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)