Nursing Associate

South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust; London; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health provider in London seeks a Nursing Associate to join its Merton Adult Community Teams. The role involves providing support to individuals facing mental health challenges, ensuring quality patient care, and working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team. Ideal candidates will be NMC registered and possess strong communication skills, with a focus on advocacy and support for service users.

Benefits

Flexible working

Career development opportunities

Inclusive work environment

Qualifications

• Understanding of the Nursing Associate role and contribution to service development.
• Knowledge of NMC professional standards for practice.
• Experience of working in teams under appropriate supervision.
• Understanding of the importance of following procedures and treatment plans.

Responsibilities

• Lead implementation of quality nursing care.
• Ensure fundamentals of care are met.
• Escort service users in line with Trust policies.
• Facilitate admission and discharge of service users.
• Advocate for service users needs and rights.

Skills

Ability to develop relationships with people

Ability to provide quality care

Communication skills

Ability to engage distressed individuals

Advocacy for individuals

Education

Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register

English and Mathematics basic qualifications

Job description

Go back South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

Nursing Associate

The closing date is 17 September 2025

This is an exciting opportunity to work within our Merton Adult Community Teams as a Band 4 Nursing Associate for either a 2-year fixed term or secondment if internal. This is a great opportunity to join one of our passionate and forward thinking teams, develop skills, and enhance your overall career pathway.

Our community services are innovative and have recently been reconfigured to provide specific recovery focused interventions to people with mental health issues accessing secondary care. The focus is on providing time limited interventions to enable individuals to maintain their lives with limited intervention; to understand and develop strategies to manage symptoms they may be experiencing, while working in partnership to establish their own personal recovery action plans.

There may be an opportunity to apply and competitively interview for the role permanently beyond this.

Only qualified/soon to be qualified nursing associates will be considered.

Main duties of the job

As a Community Mental Health Nursing Associate you will provide community patient led services and work with adults 18-65 years who have mental health issues, social needs and require support with their physical health needs by participating and leading within our health and well being clinics and visiting patients in the community to support their safety and recovery. This role will lead the way in promoting excellent physical health care and plays a key role in the delivery of our Clozapine and Depot clinics including CMA monitoring. Therefore, applicants must demonstrate knowledge or transferrable skills/willingness to learn safe Clozapine and Antipsychotic management.

In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 9am to 5pm, giving you the very best of good work life balance.

About us

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good' - we aspire to be 'outstanding'.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive. Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on their recovery journey.

Job responsibilities

1. Working autonomously within the parameters of the role leading on implementing the delivery of quality nursing care, contributing to the physical, psychological, social, recreational and spiritual care in a recovery-focused way through therapeutic engagement and activities, and taking steps to address any issues that arise.
2. Leading on and undertaking activities to ensure that the fundamentals of care are met - nutrition, hydration, hygiene, comfort, emotional and social support.
3. Escort service users, as required, in line with Trust policies.
4. Facilitating the admission and discharge of service users, ensuring needs of the patient are met including activities such as property checks, orientation to services, and ensuring that community support needs are met.
5. Advocating for service users needs and rights within Trust policy. Encouraging and empowering service users to have an optimum level of responsibility for their individual programme of care.
6. Subject to the requirements of a particular service area and within the confines of the role, following trust policy/government regulatory guidance and upon successful completion of an approved programme of study and competency assessment signed by ward manager for the clinical area, the post-holder will administer routine medications.
7. Supporting and ensuring the day-to-day smooth running of the clinical area. This will include coordinating and prioritising activities.

Person Specification

Experience & Knowledge

• Understanding of the scope of the role of the Nursing Associate in context of the nursing and interdisciplinary team and the organisation, and how the role may contribute to service development.
• Understands and acts in line with NMC professional standards for practice contained within The Code.
• Knowledge of when to seek advice and escalate to the appropriate professional for expert help and advice.
• Experience of working in teams under appropriate supervision as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Understanding of the importance of following procedures and treatment plans.
• Experience in different clinical care settings
• Experience in supervision of staff.

Training & Qualification

• Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register.
• English and Mathematics basic qualifications (e.g. GCSE at Grade C or above, New GCSE Grade 4-9 in Maths and English Language or evidence of Level 2 in Functional skills for numeracy and literacy).

Skills & Abilities

• Ability to develop effective and appropriate relationships with people, their families, carers and colleagues.
• Able to provide quality care that is responsive to service user's needs, with supervision available but not always present, and acting on own initiative, within protocols, policies and care plans.
• Able to plan and co-ordinate and prioritise own and team work within a shift system.
• Communications skills - receiving and conveying sensitive information, with staff and with service users and able to keep accurate records. Knowing when to escalate concerns and to whom
• Ability to positively engage distressed individuals and de-escalate highly- aroused situations
• Advocates for all individuals, within professional boundaries and trust policies, particularly those with protected characteristics; promotes equality and diversity.
• Experience in facilitating groups.

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.

South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust

£32,199 to £34,876 a yearper annum inclusive of outer London HCAS