Healthcare Assistant (Pre-Nursing MSc Nursing Science)

Do you want to pursue a career in Nursing but do not currently have the required healthcare experience for the MSc Nursing Programme at Northumbria University?

Newcastle Hospitals is a CQC endorsed outstanding organisation with a local, national and international reputation for excellence. Our MSc Internship is a role with our staff bank, specifically designed to offer paid Healthcare Support Worker experience for those wishing to enter on to the self-funded MSc Nursing Science Programme (pre-registration) in January 2024 at Northumbria University. This vacancy is for applicants that already meet the academic entry requirements but require 500 hours of healthcare experience to be able to apply for the Nursing Science Registered Nurse MSc in either Adult, Child, Mental Health or Learning Disability Nursing. Joining our staff bank provides an excellent opportunity for those who wish to gain insight and experience into diverse areas and specialities while providing you with the flexibility to choose your own working hours. As a Healthcare Support Worker we can offer you paid employment, comprehensive training with our Healthcare Academy, NHS Pension contributions and accrued holiday pay.

• Interview Date 20/06/2023
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.

This role provides paid Healthcare Support Worker experience to support the 500 hours required to meet the Recognised Prior Learning element (RPL) of the self-funded 2 year MSc Nursing Science (pre-registration) programme at Northumbria University.

As a Healthcare Support Worker you will assist the registered nurses (or other healthcare practitioners) in providing high quality patient care, maintaining patients’ privacy and dignity at all times and provide care in a compassionate and sensitive manner. You will work effectively as part of the multi-disciplinary team contributing to the departmental objectives. You will be expected to contribute to housekeeping and other ward / department duties as required, e.g., general tidiness, re-determined stock levels are met and clinical equipment is clean, working and stored correctly and to assist with admin & clerical duties as required.

You will in time develop an awareness of normal parameters concerning patient / client wellbeing and report that which is out with normal parameters to the registered professional. You will plan and prioritise your own and delegated work tasks and activities, carrying out routine elements of assessment to enhance the patient / client journey, following an initial assessment by a registered practitioner and meeting basic care needs of patients e.g., washing, dressing, assistance with feeding etc.

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with over 18,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.

Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the CQC for the second consecutive time in 2019, we have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Candidates will be jointly interviewed by Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals and Northumbria University to assess suitability for both the Healthcare Support Worker role and the pre-registration nursing programme. Successful applicants will be offered a zero hour contract on our staff bank for a Band 3 Healthcare Support Worker role. You will have the flexibility to choose your shifts across a wide range of services and departments at Newcastle Hospitals to gain the required 500 hours of care experience. Upon successful completion of the 500 hours by January 2024 you will then start the self-funded full time Nursing Science Registered Nurse MSc programme in your chosen field of Nursing. You can continue to work on the staff bank as a Healthcare Support Worker whilst completing the MSc programme if required.

• This post provides the post holder with a fixed term period of Healthcare Assistant experience to support the 500 hours required to meet the Recognised Prior learning element (RPL) to enter on to the 2-year accelerated MSc Nursing Science (pre-registration) programme at Northumbria University, and on completion of their degree, takes up the post of Registered Nurse.
• To abide by Trust policies and procedures.
• To assist the registered nurses (or other healthcare practitioners) in providing high quality patient care.
• Maintain patients’ privacy and dignity at all times and provide care in a compassionate and sensitive manner.
• Be an effective part of the multi-disciplinary team contributing to the departmental objectives.
• Continue to develop and maintain competencies in nursing tasks to maintain high quality safe care.
• Post holder will be expected to contribute to housekeeping and other ward / department duties as required, e.g. general tidiness, re-determined stock levels are met and clinical equipment is clean, working and stored correctly.
• Assist with admin & clerical duties as required.

All posts are subject to NHS pre-employment checks including occupational health clearance and DBS (where appropriate). All successful candidates will be required to pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay. You will be required to sign a DBS payment form which will be issued to you as part of your recruitment process. All new employees will be required to attend the Trust induction programme and complete appropriate mandatory training requirements.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.