Nursing Associate

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Denbury; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Registered Nursing Associate to join their team. In this role, you will deliver compassionate and holistic care in a prison setting. The position involves working under a registered nurse and supporting the health and wellbeing of patients. Ideal candidates will have a Registered Nursing Associate qualification and a dedication to quality care. This role promises to make a significant impact on patients' lives.

Benefits

Opportunities for professional development

Supportive team environment

Diverse workplace

Qualifications

• Experience working in a healthcare setting is preferred.
• Ability to work under the leadership of a registered nurse.
• Willingness to comply with the NMC code of conduct.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality, personalised care to patients.
• Work as directed by a registered nurse.
• Provide physical care in accordance with care plans.

Skills

Holistic care

Compassionate care

Understanding nursing principles

Education

Registered Nursing Associate qualification

Job description

Are you ready to unlock your potential within a challenging, creative and fast paced work environment? Do you want to work with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past?

This is an excellent opportunity for a Registered Nursing Associate to join our team of diverse, talented healthcare professionals to deliver care that is not only efficient but deeply centred on the patient.

Our healthcare team have a real impact on promoting health and well‑being to those in prison and we pride ourselves on using skills and strategies that instil hope for patient’s future resettlement back into the community. We directly deliver Mental Health, Physical Health, Pharmacy and Clinical Substance Misuse in an integrated healthcare delivery model to provide effective and responsive care to improve wellbeing and support better outcomes in the future.

Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

As a Nursing Associate you will be responsible for contributing towards the health and wellbeing of patients within the prison setting. You will deliver high quality, personalised, safe, compassionate care in the best interest of people.

Using your knowledge, understanding, skills, attitudes and behaviours gained within fields of nursing, you will be responsible for providing holistic care and support for people of all ages within the setting.

You will be working independently, under the leadership of a registered nurse, working within the sphere of nursing. You will be required to recognise and work within the limits of your competence, and work to the nationally recognised NMC code of conduct.

Key Duties

• To work as directed by a registered nurse.
• To provide physical care to patients in accordance with their care plan.
• To support the delivery of national screening programmes.
• To support and deliver clinics as instructed within the establishment’s clinic timetable.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our Purpose Is To Improve Lives By Providing The Best Possible Care To Our Patients And Their Families. This Is Strengthened By Our New Values

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ann Woolway
Job title: Head of Healthcare
Email address: [e-mail]