Nursing Assistant

Band 3

• Endoscopy
• Band 3
• Permanent
• • Full time
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
• 319-7410597GH

• Wansbeck General Hospital
• Ashington
• £24,937 - £26,598 pro rata per annum
• Yearly
• 05/10/2025 23:59

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.

Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes.  If you use AI, and it poses a risk  to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process. 

Job overview

Northumbria Endoscopy Trust wide Service is growing. These are exciting times in Endoscopy with growing demands on our services the teams are developing to meet this challenge.

An opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic, dedicated Band 3 Endoscopy Nursing Assistants who wish to further their career and gain experience in the Endoscopy Unit. We will consider part time and full time hours. You will be based at Wansbeck General Hospital but would be expected to cover cross sites as required.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date when we reach a suitable number of applications.

Main duties of the job

Reporting to the Endoscopy Unit Managers and Deputy Unit Managers, the individuals will be responsible for assisting the qualified Endoscopy Nurses in basic nursing care of the patient; ensuring decontamination of endoscopes is completed as per expected standards; ensuring effective communication across a multi-disciplinary team.

The Endoscopy Nursing Assistants need to be flexible to the needs of the service; there is an expectation for weekend / evening working.

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

• To assist the qualified nursing staff in the delivery of high quality direct and indirect patient care
• To provide assistance and support to patients, carers and the multi-disciplinary team
• To maintain high clinical standards
• To help maintain a clean and safe ward environment
• Provides and receives routine information which requires tact or persuasive skills or where there are barriers to understanding
• Providing and receiving routine information orally, in writing or electronically to inform work colleagues, patients, clients, carers, the public or other External contacts
• NVQ Level 3 in Health/Health & Social Care/Direct Care or a portfolio of equivalent experience
• Course and experience that demonstrate transferable skills i.e. respiratory essentials, basic stoma care, palliative care course for HCAs
• Previous care experience preferably in a health care setting
• Good verbal and written communication
• Able to use electronic systems

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 knowlege

Essential criteria

• Previous care experience preferably in a healthcare setting

Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.

Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.

Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!

Certificate of Sponsorship

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post.  The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

• Name
• Julia Smith butlin
• Job title
• Endoscopy Unit Manager
• Email address
• Julia.Smith-Butlin@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk
• Telephone number
• 01670 529063
• Additional information

• Kirsty Harrison

  Endoscopy Matron

  Kirsty.Harrison@nhct.nhs.uk

  07860310812

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