Nursing Associate (Band 4) - Nursing Associate B4 - Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust

Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust; London; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading community healthcare organisation in London is seeking a Nurse Associate to join their team. This permanent position in Harrow focuses on providing holistic patient care within the community, allowing healthcare professionals to work closely with patients in their home environment. Successful candidates will benefit from a comprehensive induction, flexible working options, and ongoing training and development.

Benefits

Comprehensive induction

Car lease scheme

Flexible working options

Training and support

Qualifications

• Registered Nursing Associate status required.
• Education to minimum level 5 specific to nursing associate practice.
• Experience in health/care settings desirable.

Responsibilities

• Assess, plan, organise, and deliver clinical care.
• Monitoring long-term conditions and well-being of service users.
• Administering medication in accordance with guidelines.

Skills

Communication

Clinical skills

Teamwork

Education

Level 5 Foundation degree specific to nursing associate practice

Registered Nursing Associate on NMC register

GCSEs Grade A-C in Maths and English or equivalent

Care Certificate

Job description

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Site Honeypot lane healthcentre Town London Salary £31,081 - £33,665 Per annum inclusive of HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 11/07/2025 23:59

Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.

We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.

Job overview

Nurse Associate -Band 4 - Harrow ICS

Community Nursing, Permanent: 37.5 HRS per Week

Are you a Nurse Associate nurse passionate about community nursing?

Are looking for a new challenge?

If you’ve answered‘yes’, we’d love to talk to you about joining one of our teams.

We currently have A Band 4 Nurse Associate vacancy in Harrow.

In Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (CLCH), community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home and we have recently been rated asgoodby the Care Quality Commission.

We believe community nursing gives dedicated healthcare professionals the opportunity to spend more time with the patients in their own home environment and work collaboratively with other clinicians to provide more coordinated care.

You will be working independently under the guidance and direction of a District Nurse Team leader to provide cost effective, evidence based and safe care to our patients in their own homes. Applicants must be registered with the NMC as a nurse associate and have excellent communication, clinical skill and team working skills. Experience of working in the community is desirable but not essential.

Main duties of the job

The role of the Nursing Associate is to work with the multi professional team and the Registered Nurse to assess, plan, organise and deliver clinical care in line with service and patient needs, as agreed with supervising clinicians.

The nursing associate has a breadth of knowledge across the lifespan and across the fields of nursing, providing holistic and person-centred care and support for people of all ages and in a variety of settings. The nursing associate works independently under the leadership of registered nurses, working within the sphere of nursing and care and within all aspects of the nursing process. (Health Education England 2018)

Nursing associates are equipped with the knowledge, understanding, skills, attitudes, and behaviours relevant to employment as a nursing associate and will work to a nationally recognised Nurse and Midwifery (NMC) code of conduct and must meet the NMC standards of proficiency.

The post holder will be responsible for:

• Clinical Duties
• Management and Leadership
• Professionalism
• Training and Teaching
• Research

Working for our organisation

Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours!

We can offer you:

• A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
• Car lease scheme *T&C’s apply
• Flexible working options
• Training, support and development in your career

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Assessment and planning of delegated care
• Monitoring of long-term conditions and well-being of service users including escalation of interventions when necessary
• Assist with the implementation and monitoring of clinical care and monitor outcomes
• Administering of Medication in accordance with regulatory guidelines for Nursing Associates
• Undertake onward referrals to appropriate services and community-based care support

  
  Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full roles and responsibilities.

Person specification

Education/Qualification

• Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register
• Educated to a minimum level 5 Foundation degree level specific to nursing associate practice
• GCSEs Grade A-C in Maths and English or equivalent
• Care Certificate

Experience

• Previous experience of working within a health / care setting in the field of area applied for
• Relevant experience of working self-directed or as part of a team.
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Skills & Knowledge

• Understanding of the scope of the role of the Nursing Associate in context of the team and the organisation, and how the role contributes to service development
• Understands and acts in line with NMC professional standards for practice contained within the Code.
• Relevant clinical skills in work
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Ability to communicate effectively (written, verbal, non- verbal communication) with patients/relatives, carers, and other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
• Ability to develop effective and appropriate relationships with people, their families, carers, and colleagues.
• Ability to deal with non-routine and unpredictable nature of workload and individual patient contact
• Insight into how to evaluate own strengths and development needs, seeking advice when needed
• Ability to work well as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Ability to work on own initiative
• Ability to organise and prioritise own workload effectively
• Able to recognise own limitations in the context of the nursing associate role
• Knowledge of when to seek advice and escalate to an appropriate registered health or care professional
• Ability to participate in reflective practice and clinical supervision activities
• IT awareness and ability to use NHS systems Ability to support, supervise and act as a role model to nursing associate students, other learners and health care support workers as required within the clinical setting.

Key Attributes

• Car driver with access to a vehicle (dependent on borough)

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification.

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.

At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.

We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:

Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)

Race Equality Network

Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.

Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your applications on time to avoid disappointment.

Name Veronica Vella Job title Locality Manager Community Nursing Harrow ICS Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 07985445622 Additional information