Registered Nurse Associate

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust; Brackley; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in Brackley is seeking a Registered Nurse Associate to join their community inpatient team, working closely with Registered Nurses and Rehab Care Assistants. The role involves providing top-quality patient-centred care, participating in health assessments, and delivering rehabilitation services. Ideal candidates will possess strong teamwork skills and a commitment to high-quality patient care in a healthcare setting.

Qualifications

• Experience in providing patient-centred care.
• Ability to work in a multi-professional team.
• Skills in ongoing health assessment and care planning.

Responsibilities

• Work alongside Registered Nurses and Rehab Care Assistants.
• Contribute to providing quality care in physical health inpatient units.
• Participate in health needs assessment and planned care.

Job description

The Registered Nurse Associate role is an essential role for community inpatients and the post holder will work alongside Registered Nurses and Rehab Care Assistants to provide highest quality patient‑centred care. Within community inpatients, the Nurse Associate role is to contribute to the work of the team in providing the highest quality of physical health care and participate in on‑going assessment process of health needs and the implementation of planned care in a physical health inpatient unit over the 24/7 period that meets the needs of the patients.

The post holder will be working in an integrated multi‑professional inpatient team that includes a Ward Matron, Team Leaders, Staff Nurses, unregistered staff, therapy MDT, medical staff and wider trust colleagues. The post holder will provide quality care for a group of patients specialising in rehabilitation in a physical health inpatient unit (and palliative care in one of the units – Danetre Hospital). We provide sub‑acute care and rehabilitation for patients stepping down from acute hospitals, step‑up patients from the community and admission avoidance into acute hospitals if suitable.

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and speciality services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.