Registered Nurse Associate

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Sefton; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Band 4 Community Registered Nursing Associate for the Sefton area. You will join a supportive community district nursing team delivering care in patients' homes and community settings.

The role involves autonomous working, a 37.5 hour week, and shifts between 08:00 and 20:00 across days and weekends, with flexible working considered. You will embody compassionate, patient-centred care and collaborate with colleagues to maintain high standards.

Responsibilities

• Assist in delivering high standards of nursing care to patients in the community following prescribed care plans.
• Work autonomously and as part of a community health team to support patient care in homes and community settings.
• Provide competent and skilled care and advice to patients and carers, ensuring care is patient-centred.
• Be flexible, approachable and motivated, able to use own initiative and work across days, weekends and bank holidays.
• Contribute to clinical leadership within the community team and support delivery of policies and procedures.

Job description

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.

Community Services Division

This clinical division delivers community health services to people in their own homes, health centres and clinics, NHS walk-In centres and our older adults intermediate care ward at Aintree University Hospital site.

As well as the many community nursing services, this division delivers specialist dental health care, therapies, sexual health, medicines management and nutrition and dietetics services. Our teams work closely with GPs and other health and social care services to ensure patients are cared for with the best support, in or closer to their home.

Our services enable people to remain as independent as possible and many are delivered 24 hours, seven days a week.

Every year our staff deliver care to thousands of patients whilst talking to their families and carers. These hundreds of thousands of interactions mean that our staff are best placed to understand patients' holistic health and social needs, including education, prevention and self care.

We are committed to helping staff balance work and home life and welcome applications from applicants wishing to work part-time or with flexible working arrangements.