Nursing Associate

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Sefton; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Nursing Associate to join the Treatment Rooms Service across multiple sites in the North West. The role requires delivering high-quality, person-centred care under supervision, with involvement in wound care, dressings, injections and delegated procedures.

Travel between Treatment Room sites is required, and you will work within a multidisciplinary team under the direction of registered nurses, contributing to assessment, planning, delivery and

Qualifications

• Deliver safe and effective care in line with care plans and clinical guidelines.
• Provide wound care, dressings, injections and other delegated procedures.
• Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team to coordinate patient care.

Responsibilities

• Deliver safe and effective care to patients in line with individual care plans and clinical guidelines.
• Support registered nurses in assessment and monitoring of patients; escalate concerns as needed.
• Administer medications and treatments within scope of practice and in accordance with NMC standards.
• Promote health and wellbeing through education, advice and support to patients and carers.
• Maintain accurate and timely clinical records using electronic systems.
• Participate in audits, quality improvement and service development.
• Collaborate with other health and social care professionals to ensure coordinated care.
• Uphold professional standards and contribute to continuous learning and development.
• Supervise and support junior staff and students as appropriate.
• Adhere to Mersey Care's values and safeguarding and infection control policies.

Skills

Clinical skills

Autonomy

Education and advice

Education

Nursing Associate registration with NMC

Job description

Are you a motivated and compassionateNursing Associatewith a passion for delivering high-quality patient care? If so, we would like to hear from you. We are seeking a Nursing Associate to join our Treatment Rooms Service. The successful candidate will have demonstrable clinical experience, a broad range of practical clinical skills, and the confidence to work autonomously within their scope of practice while contributing effectively to the wider multidisciplinary team. The role involves providing a range of treatment room interventions, supporting patients with wound care, dressings, injections, and other delegated clinical procedures, ensuring safe, effective, and timely care. The postholder will be required to travel regularly across multiple Treatment Room sites. Therefore, the post holder will need to travel between sites. The Nursing Associate will work as part of the Treatment Rooms multidisciplinary team, supporting the Registered Nurse in the assessment, planning, organisation and delivery of high-quality clinical care in line with service and patient needs. The postholder will provide holistic, person-centred care to patients attending Treatment Rooms, undertaking a range of delegated clinical interventions within their scope of practice, including wound management, dressings, injections and other treatment room procedures following appropriate training and competency assessment. Working under the leadership and direction of registered nurses, the Nursing Associate will contribute to all aspects of the nursing process, promoting patient health, wellbeing and self-management, while helping to ensure safe, effective and timely care delivery., The Registered Nursing Associate (RNA) will work as part of the multidisciplinary team within South Sefton treatment rooms , delivering high-quality, person-centred care under the direction of registered nurses. The RNA will contribute to the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care, supporting patients with a range of health needs and interventions.

Main Responsibilities

• Deliver safe and effective care to patients in line with individual care plans and clinical guidelines.
• Support registered nurses in the assessment and monitoring of patients, escalating concerns appropriately.
• Administer medications and treatments within scope of practice and in accordance with NMC standards.
• Promote health and wellbeing through education, advice, and support to patients and carers.
• Maintain accurate and timely clinical records using electronic systems.
• Participate in clinical audits, quality improvement initiatives, and service development.
• Work collaboratively with other health and social care professionals to ensure coordinated care.
• Uphold professional standards and contribute to a culture of continuous learning and development.
• Supervise and support junior staff and students as appropriate.
• Adhere to Mersey Care's values and policies, including safeguarding, infection control, and equality and diversity. Nursing Associates are accountable professionals who work within the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Code and Standards of Proficiency. The postholder must recognise and work within the limits of their competence, maintaining their professional development and contributing to the delivery of high-quality patient care within the community setting.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands. We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities. At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.