Assistant Practitioner / Nursing Associate

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust; Norwich; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

A local healthcare trust in Norwich is looking for a qualified Assistant Practitioner / Nurse Associate to join their Thurne Ward team. The role involves supporting registered nurses in patient care, conducting assessments, and participating in care planning. Candidates should possess a Foundation Degree in Health and Social Care and a Care Certificate. The trust offers competitive salary packages and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Comprehensive training programmes

Career progression

27 days of annual leave, increasing to 33 days

Qualifications

• Completion of Care Certificate within first 12 weeks.
• Understanding health promotion importance.
• Experience in NHS settings appreciated.

Responsibilities

• Assessments, risk management, and care planning.
• Support Registered Nurses in day-to-day activities.
• Co-ordinate care delivery for service users.

Skills

Registered Nursing Associate

Care Certificate

Team collaboration

Ability to manage unpredictable workloads

Physical intervention training

Education

Foundation Degree in Health and Social Care / Mental Health at Level 5

Apprenticeship in Health & Social Care / Mental Health Level 5

Job description

We are looking to recruit a qualified Band 4 Assistant Practitioner / Nurse Associate to join Thurne Ward Hellesdon Hospital

We are a strong and credible team, with a friendly atmosphere, where productive ideas are welcomed and explored. Are you a highly motivated and passionate about patient care? Do you believe in keeping Service Users and Carers at the heart of everything you do? Would you like to work in well supported, dynamic, enthusiastic recovery focused team? We are looking for innovative and focused practitioners who are determined to make a positive difference to the care of our Service Users. If this feels like you, we want to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for energised individuals who will be excited to be part of something very special. We want creativity, innovative ideas and passion towards providing excellent patient care. If you want to make a difference in people's lives and change it for the better than we want you to be part of our fantastic team!

Working alongside our Clinical Support Workers and Registered Nurses, you will work a combination of shifts including unsociable hours, weekends and bank holidays.

You will be responsible for assessments, risk management, care planning, and co-ordination of care delivery. You will support the Registered Nurses with the day to day activities and provide support to service users throughout their recovery journey.

Working within a well-resourced team, supported with regular supervision and opportunities to work in partnership with health and social care in the wider multi-disciplinary service, we want to develop the role of Nursing Associate to enable participation in a wider range of opportunities including change management projects such as quality improvement.

About us

Our Trust values of Team, Accountability, Learn and Kind sum up perfectly what this role encompasses. If you have the right values to join our organisation, you will be supported with a programme of training and development.

There are endless opportunities available, and we are keen to welcome new faces to join our team on a permanent basis. We understand that to attract the best people, we need to develop career pathways and support staff to reach their full potential. We pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.

In addition, we also offer the following benefits:

• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• NHS discounts and many more.

Job responsibilities

Please note that applicants for this role require:

A Care certificate or completed within first 12 weeks of start date, or relevant equivalent qualification.

AND

Foundation Degree in Health and Social Care / Mental Health at Level 5 orApprenticeship in Health & Social Care / Mental Health Level 5.

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

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Person Specification

Skills

• Registered Nursing Associate - on the NMC Register
• Care Certificate

Experience

• Understanding the importance of the promotion of health and wellbeing - "Making every Contact Count"
• Experience of working in other NHS settings

Skills

• Ability to work effectively as a team player under appropriate supervision and as part of the MDT
• Ability to deal with non-routine and unpredictable nature of the work load and individual SU contact
• Be an effective role model

Skills

• To be able to complete PMA training and engage in physical intervention as per policy

Knowledge

• Understanding of the scope and the role of the Nursing Associate in the context of the team and the organisation, and how the role may contribute to service development

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£27,485 to £30,162 a yeargross per annum