Band 4 Nurse Associate

Job Introduction

We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Nursing Associate to join the Devizes Community Team in Wiltshire.

We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible.

In this role, you would be working as part of a Community team incorporating: Community Nursing, Clinical Leads, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Healthcare support workers, Rehab support workers and Care Coordinators. You will link closely with colleagues including general practitioners and other members of the multidisciplinary team to support excellent nursing care at home, reducing the necessity for acute hospital admission.

This role is aligned specifically to the community nursing team providing nursing support to patients in their own homes. We aim to support you through either preceptorship or mentorship to develop in your new role and we offer a fully comprehensive preceptorship and induction program.

If you like our vision and values, we encourage you to apply.

Essential criteria for this post:

• Nursing Associate Foundation Degree and NMC registration-
• Previous experience in a health care setting
  
  

The main responsibilities of the post:

• The role of the Nursing Associate is to work within their scope of practice, without direct supervision in partnership with a Registered Nurse. The Nursing Associate will provide and deliver a high standard of nursing care, contributing to the ongoing assessment, to patients delegated to them.
• The Nursing Associate will be expected to carry out planned and unplanned care to patients in their own homes
• The successful applicant must be flexible, a good team worker, used to working under pressure, have excellent interpersonal and IT skills and be able to communicate effectively with patients, carers and other members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team.
  
  

Applicant will need to be car driver with valid UK Licence and have access to a car for work purposes

For further information or to arrange an informal visit please call

Clare Tinnion – Community Team Manager – On 01380 732 525.

Main Responsibility

This list is intended to summarise the key responsibilities and is not intended to cover every task that may be required of the role: -

• To adhere to organisational policy and procedures.
• Commitment to personal and professional development
• To treat all individuals with respect and maintain privacy, dignity and confidentiality at all times.
• Responsible for delivering a delegated workload against the needs of patients and service requirement
• Able to manage own time effectively
• Plans and organise tasks and activities to be completed within agreed timescales
• Organise, prioritise and adjust own workload in relation to patient care.
• To work in care teams with other professionals, providing practical help to registered practitioners by delivering delegated aspects of nursing care to vulnerable and often highly dependent patients with a range of illnesses.
• To use sound clinical reasoning skills when delivering care and therapy interventions in line with goals agreed with the individual and set by a registered health professional, this would only be expected following appropriate training or when competency reached.
• To be able to accurately and effectively report on care undertaken and document changes in condition, maintain accurate and contemporaneous records, in hand-written or electronic format and ensure that there is feedback to the appropriate or responsible registered healthcare professional.
• To establish good therapeutic relationships with individuals and be able to communicate effectively in order to overcome barriers to understanding when treating individuals who may have physical or mental health issues or learning difficulties that affect their ability to communicate, understand or reason.
• To assist in the maintenance, cleaning and storage of equipment.
• To attend team meetings and appropriate education and training to ensure continuing professional development.
• To actively participate in setting personal objectives through appraisal and clinical supervision.
• To participate in active rotation to support the key objectives of course delivery
• To follow Medicines management and administration standard operating procedures for the organization and follow policy for safe and effective administration and optimization of medicines. This should be in accordance with NMC standards of proficiency for Nursing Associates
  
  

The Ideal Candidate

• Registered as a Nurse Associate with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
• Car driver
• Excellent communication skills.
• Able to work independently, using own initiative and knowing when to seek advice.
  
  

Package Description

As a Nurse Associate, you’ll be part of our valued team at our Malmesbury Community Team at Malmesbury Primary Care Centre.

You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• AFC Band 4 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions (Salary within banding, discussed and agreed based on previous salary with evidence provided)
• Free tea and coffee at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
  
  

About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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