Nursing Associate

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; York; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in mental health services seeks compassionate and skilled Nursing Associates to join their dedicated team. This role offers a unique opportunity to provide holistic care and support to individuals with mental health challenges and learning disabilities. As part of a multidisciplinary team, you will work closely with registered nurses and healthcare professionals, contributing to the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based care. With a focus on personal development and employee wellbeing, this organization offers a supportive environment where your skills and empathy can truly make a difference in the lives of those you serve. If you are passionate about making a positive impact in mental health care, this opportunity is for you.

Benefits

27 - 33 days annual leave

Flexible working arrangements

NHS Pension Scheme

Career development opportunities

Employee wellbeing support

Exclusive discounts

Qualifications

• Qualified Nursing Associate registered with the NMC.
• Experience with complex mental health needs or lived experience.

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with registered nurses to deliver clinical care.
• Delegate clinical tasks and supervise health support workers.
• Manage sensitive information and communicate effectively with families.

Skills

Medication Administration

Risk Assessment

Therapeutic Interventions

Holistic Care

Communication Skills

Education

Qualified Nursing Associate

Job description

Are you looking for mental health jobs in Leeds, York or with one of our regional services operating across the country? We have a range of NHS Job opportunities, placements and specialities in our clinical, research, and professional support teams across Leeds and York.

At Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT), we strive to provide high-quality mental health and learning disability services as an employer of choice. We can only achieve this by putting our staff and the people using our services at the centre of everything we do. This starts with the people we employ. We recruit based on values and qualifications (where required) and believe lived experience is an advantage. We look for potential, not perfection, and this means that together, we are as diverse as the communities we care for.

Simply put, we seek out people who care, act with integrity and have the right skills. We want to add to our incredible colleagues, students and volunteers who share these principles, with people like you, who find empathy comes easily and who treat everyone with respect without thinking. Search our latest jobs to start your journey with us.

Main area Westerdale Ward and Bluebell Ward - Clifton House Grade 4 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 173-66724-FOR

Site Clifton House Town York Salary £26,530 - £29,114 pa Salary period Yearly Closing 05/01/2025 23:59 Interview date 14/01/2025

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Job overview

The role of the Nursing Associate is to work within a multi professional team alongside registered nurses, Allied Health Professionals, associate practitioners, medical professionals and healthcare support workers.
It involves working collaboratively with Registered Nurses to assess, plan, organise and deliver clinical care in line with the service pathways and as agreed with supervising clinician(s).

The Nursing Associate has a breadth of knowledge across the lifespan, providing holistic and person centred care and support for people of all ages and in a variety of settings. The Nursing Associate will help to bridge the gap between Health care assistants and Registered Nurses by working independently under the leadership of registered nurses, working within all aspects of the clinical process.

Nursing Associates are equipped with the knowledge, understanding, skills, attitudes and behaviours relevant to employment; will work to a nationally recognised Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Code of Conduct and must meet the NMC standards of proficiency.

Nursing Associates will provide effective evidence based care for service users under the supervision of registered nurses in order to perform non-complex activities, in line with clinical governance and professional standards.

Main duties of the job

Nursing Associates will be recovery focused, have good risk assessment skills and have a good range of therapeutic interventions supported by evidence based practice.

Nursing Associates will use personal effectiveness and knowledge to contribute to the development and delivery of a high quality, cost effective service.

We recruit people based on their values and qualifications (where required) and believe that their lived experience is an advantage, this means that together we are as diverse as the communities we care for. Simply put, when we employ caring people who act with integrity and have the right skills, we can give those with mental health challenges, learning disabilities and neurodiversity high-quality care and support to live fulfilling lives, and make our staff feel purposeful, happy and valued.

Working for our organisation

The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.

There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.

We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.

Applicants should be aware that for any individual who requires a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only. This is an essential requirement of the role, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you are unable to meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• The post holder will play an active role as a member of the multidisciplinary team.
• The post holder will delegate clinical tasks to health support workers, trainee nursing associates, student nurses, student Allied Health Professionals and Trust volunteers.
• The post holder will act as clinical supervisor to health care support workers and adhere to Trust policy relating to clinical supervision.
• The post holder will have responsibilities for collaborating and communicating effectively with service users’ carers and families. This will require the person to manage and engage with sensitive and sometimes, distressing information.
• The post holder will have responsibilities for communicating both written and verbal information to the team on a daily basis, and the ability to assess, deliver and monitor care and communicate this effectively within clinical case notes of service users under the supervision of a registered nurse.
• The post holder will participate and contribute to multi-disciplinary reviews, care programme approach meetings and other clinical meetings communicating assessments and delivery of care as part of the overarching care package.
• The post holder will in line with NMC standards of proficiency be responsible and accountable for their actions and ensure they maintain the necessary requirements to register and revalidate.
• The ability to manage personal and often distressing information with sensitivity.
• The ability to assess and manage (via appropriate care delivery programmes) stress/distress/anger/aggression.
• The post holder will have an understanding of the importance of relational security and be aware of the risks which can have an impact when working in forensics.
• Ability to recognise any deterioration of mental health conditions which will require more intensive support options, along with ability to assess severity and ensure this is referred on to the most appropriate service/professional for follow-up.
• The post holder will have the skills and knowledge to identify potential safeguarding risks to both vulnerable adults and children. They will have the ability to act on these concerns in accordance with both organisational and local authority safeguarding procedures.
• To carry out physical health interventions including venepuncture, ECG’s wound care and medicines administration commensurate with level of training received.
• To hold a defined caseload of service users which is supervised and monitored by a registered practitioner.
• To develop individualised, collaborative plans of care to meet the immediate and ongoing needs of these service user and their carers, under the supervision of the registered practitioner. These may include interventions that support registered nurses in the administration of medication.
• Have demonstrated the proficiency to administer medication through successful completion of the nursing associates training course and registration with the NMC.
• Exercise professional accountability in ensuring the safe administration of medicines to those receiving care.
• Administer medication via oral, topical and inhalation routes.
• Administer injections using subcutaneous and intramuscular routes and manage injection equipment.
• Administer and monitor medications using enteral equipment.
• Administer enemas and suppositories.
• Manage and monitor effectiveness of symptom relief medication.
• Recognise and respond to adverse or abnormal reactions to medications, and when and how to escalate any concerns.
• Undertake safe storage, transportation and disposal of medicinal products.
• Day to day management/supervision of health support workers including providing supervision, appraisals, delivering training in own work area, managing workload and attendance etc.
• Provide peer support to newly qualified nursing associates and buddying to trainees and Band 4 staff.

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading.

So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the Candidate Guide to Values Based Recruitment. This document provides you with information to help you apply.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Qualified Nursing Associate, registered with the NMC.

Skills

• Ability to dispense and administer prescribed medication in a clinic setting.

Experience

• Experience of working with a range of patients with complex mental health needs or learning disabilities, or have lived experience of this.

Knowledge

• Have an understanding of how a mental illness / learning disability can impact on persons physical health and wellbeing.

Applications are welcomed from candidates who wish to apply for a position on the basis of a smarter (Hybrid) or flexible working arrangement – please contact the Recruitment Team if you have any queries regarding this in terms of your initial application.

Where candidates are successful at interview, flexible working arrangement requests will be taken into consideration and may be accommodated where the needs of the service allow.

Please note that from 1 st July 2018 , all new employees are required to subscribe to the DBS Update Service, DBS checks for volunteers remain free of charge.

LYPFT is committed to upholding its’ statutory responsibilities in relation to safeguarding adults and children. Please refer to job description for further information.

Patient Safety is a priority at LYPFT with a focus on system-based improvement and creating opportunities for learning. We will ensure compassionate engagement with all those involved in an incident and all incidents are met with a proportionate response.

LYPFT is a member of the Disability Confident scheme and is committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

As part of the Trust's commitment to its Gold Standard Armed Forces Covenant status, members of the Armed Forces Community are entitled to a guaranteed interview subject to meeting the role criteria.

We welcome applicants with lived experience of providing unpaid care and/or support to a family member or friend with a disability, health condition, frailty, mental health problem, addiction or other health needs.

Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received. It is in the candidates best interest to apply as soon as possible.

In view of Home Office Immigration Regulations all applicants must state their current immigration status, including expiry dates.

In submitting an application form, you authorise Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed to the post.

In submitting an application for a role please ensure that you only declare qualifications that are relevant to the role itself. We reserve the right to check all declared qualifications on an application form, whether they are directly relevant to the role or not.

Please note: The Trust does not offer reimbursement of interview expenses.