Children’s Nursing Assistant

An exciting opportunity to work in a busy Children's A&E and Ward with dynamic team. Working between both areas on one unit caring for children from birth to age 15yrs presenting with a wide range of injuries and illnesses.

• Flexibility to meet the needs of the service.
• Shift work.
• Support the team on the Children's Ward and A&E Unit.
• Carry out regular observations on Children.
• Assist with simple dressings/cleaning of wounds.
• Support at meal times on the ward.

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

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.