Nursing Associate - Proactive Care

Whittington Health NHS Trust; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Whittington Health NHS Trust is seeking a Registered Nursing Associate to join the Haringey MACCT, focusing on integrated community care for adults 18+ with frailty and complex needs. You will work with GPs, physiotherapists, social workers, pharmacists and other MDT members to deliver proactive, holistic care.

You will undertake delegated tasks across the MACCT model, perform frailty assessments, plan and prioritise care, and escalate risks promptly as part of a shared competency framework.

Qualifications

• Qualified Nursing Associate with current UK registration.

Responsibilities

• Undertake frailty assessments and coordinate care.
• Present patients at MDT meetings.
• Initiate referrals within competence.
• Escalate emerging risks promptly.

Job description

We are looking for a Registered Nursing Associate (RNA) to join the HaringeyMulti-Agency Care and Coordination Team (MACCT) who is passionate about integrated community care and supporting frail and complex patients. You will work closely with GPs, Physiotherapists, Social Workers, Pharmacists, Occupational Therapists, Community Matrons, Trusted Assessors, Mental Health Practitioners, Dementia Navigators, and the administrative team. In this role you will undertake activities beyond traditional RNA duties, adopting shared competencies across the multidisciplinary team (MDT) in line with the Multi-Agency Care and Coordination Team (MACCT) model. You will be supported to develop advanced skills in frailty, proactive case finding, pressure ulcer care and medication management where needed, continence and holistic assessment., You will work as a core member of the Multi-Agency Care and Coordination Team (MACCT), delivering proactive, holistic, person-centred care for adults (18+) in Haringey who are living with frailty, complex needs, or are at high risk of unplanned hospital admission. You will undertake delegated and competency-based tasks from:

• Community Matrons (CM)
• Associate Community Matrons (ACM)
• Occupational Therapists (OT)
• Physiotherapists (PT)
• Social Worker (SW)
• Pharmacists
• Other MDT clinicians

You will be allocated a caseload by the Community Matron/Associate Community Matron undertaking holistic assessments, planning and prioritising workload, implementing evidence-based interventions, and evaluating outcomes. Following successful completion of the frailty induction process, you will:

• Undertake frailty assessments and coordinate care
• Present patients at multi-disciplinary meetings (MDT)
• Initiate referrals within competence
• Escalate emerging risks promptly

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.