Registered Nurse Associate

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool City Region; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Job summary

The Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 4 Community Registered Nursing Associate to join the Sefton community nursing team. You will deliver high-quality nursing care in patients' homes and community settings, working with colleagues to maintain standards of care.

You will work across day and weekend shifts, including bank holidays, with 37.5 hours per week and flexible working arrangements where possible. A car driver/owner is essential to reach patients in their communities.

Qualifications

• Band 4 Community Registered Nursing Associate role in Sefton.
• Delivery of high standards of nursing care in the community.
• Must be a car driver/owner and able to work days, weekends and bank holidays.

Responsibilities

• Provide competent nursing care to patients in their homes and community settings.
• Work autonomously within prescribed programmes of care and with the community health team.
• Support policy implementation and clinical leadership within the service.

Skills

Community Nursing

Job description

Our Vision is to strive for perfect, whole-person care that helps people live happier, healthier lives.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Band 4 Community Registered Nursing Associate in Sefton.

Community District Nursing is a busy but rewarding job, you will be surrounded by friendly and supportive colleagues in an environment that encourages new ideas, innovation, and personal development. The team thrives on delivering high standards of care at all times in a safe, effective, and timely manner.

The band 4 Registered Nursing Associate role is to assist, without direct supervision, in the delivery of high standards of nursing care to patients in the community by following prescribed programmes of care. The role involves working autonomously and a car driver/owner.

This post requires a motivational and enthusiastic individual who is passionate about patient care. You must be flexible, approachable, compassionate, motivated, and hardworking and be able to use your own initiative.

The post holder will be expected to workdays and weekends including bank holidays, 37.5 hours per week. The service operates between 08:00 and 20:00, 7 days a week and you will be required to work shifts between these times Flexible working will be considered.

You will work collaboratively as part of a community health team to meet the needs of patients, support the delivery of policy and procedures and provide clinical leadership.

You will provide competent and skilled care and advice to patients in their own homes and other community settings.

You will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values patients, service users and their carers ensuring they are at the centre of their care.

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.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Nicola Szczesniak Job title: Operational Service Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07973960150