Home, community, hospital

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

Our Trust values

These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.

Job overview

The Nursing Assistant works flexibly as part of the nursing team to deliver quality care to patients.The primary activity will be to undertake a range of supervised direct care duties, which are clearly prescribed both in this document and in more detail in the core competency list for the grade.
To carry out assigned tasks involving direct care in support of and supervised by a Registered Nurse. 

Main duties of the job

Are you interested in supporting your local NHS Hospital or been inspired to help others during the ongoing COVID Pandemic? Are you looking for a meaningful career, where you can truly make a difference in someone else's life?

We currently have vacancies in the following adult in patient areas:

Orthopaedics
Surgery and Urology
Care of the Elderly (including Stroke)
Gastroenterology
Acute Assessment Unit
Emergency Department
Respiratory Medicine
Cardiology

Kingston Private Health

Experience is not essential, however it is preferred and we are looking for individuals with a desire to deliver compassionate care to our patients, promote our Trust values and are committed to providing high quality nursing care to our patients which full training will be provided

Nursing Assistants are key members of our team and work in a variety of our adult impatient areas, delivering care in every imaginable setting, and are invariably the people who deliver the majority of hands-on nursing care, providing you with great job satisfaction from your role.

KHFT prides itself on providing high quality care which you could play an important part in. Working as a Nursing Assistant at KHFT is a great opportunity as you will be able to learn and develop a set of skills to care for patients in any acute setting. 

The application process consists of the following stages:

1. Shortlisting of applications

2. Assessment

3. Interview 

Working for our organisation

Kingston Hospital - First Acute Trust in London to be rated Outstanding by CQC for Overall Quality and Leadership

Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a district general hospital situated in a beautiful and remarkable part of the country – close to London yet surrounded by royal parks, historic buildings and the River Thames. We are located on a single site in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey and run several outpatient clinics in neighbouring areas including Raynes Park Health Centre and Teddington Memorial Hospital.

We employ 3,300+ staff who proudly and efficiently support over 350,000 people locally through a full range of diagnostic and treatment services and we have a national reputation for innovative developments in healthcare, particularly in 'patient-focused' care, day surgery and maternity services.

Health and Wellbeing & Staff Benefits

The Trust understands that benefits go beyond just financial rewards and offers a wide range of benefits that recognise staff contribution, provide opportunities for career development and offer initiatives to promote a healthy work-life balance. -Our Health Heroes Awards 2018 – Staff Retention and Wellbeing Employer of the Year. -HPMA Vivup Award for Well Being 2019.

Trust Values

Kingston Hospital NHS Trust has four key values and we want to employ and work with people who share these values and demonstrate behaviours that support them. They are:

- Caring

- Safe

- Responsible

- Value Each Other