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 seeking a Band 4 Community Registered Nursing Associate to join the Sefton community team. This post involves delivering high-quality nursing care to patients in their homes as part of a supportive team.

You will work 37.5 hours per week, including days and weekends, with shifts between 08:00 and 20:00. Flexible working will be considered to support work-life balance.

Qualifications

• Nursing Associate Foundation Degree from an approved programme.
• NMC Registered as Nursing Associate.

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively within a community health team to meet patient needs.
• Provide competent and skilled care and advice to patients in their homes and community settings.
• Deliver high standards of care following prescribed programmes of care.

Skills

Effective communication

Teamwork

Initiative

Education

Nursing Associate Foundation Degree

NMC Registered as Nursing Associate

Job description

Job summary

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.

Main duties of the job

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.

About us

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.

Job responsibilities

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 closerto 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.

Qualifications

• Nursing Associate Foundation Degree from an approved programme
• NMC Registered as a Nursing Associate

Desirable

• Additional post registration qualification relevant to field of practice

Experience

• Ability to communicate effectively with members of the public and health and care providers
• Understanding of the importance of the promotion of health and well being
• Evidence of improvement in support / development of less experienced staff
• Evidence of recent work based learning or self directed learning (Making Every Contact Count)

Desirable

• Evidence of improvement in support / development of less experienced staff
• Evidence of recent work based learning or self directed learning

Skills

• Ability to communicate effectively with members of the public and health and care providers
• Understanding of the importance of the promotion of health and well being
• Evidence of improvement in support / development of less experienced staff
• Evidence of recent work based learning or self directed learning (Making Every Contact Count)

Desirable

• Skills in audit and improvement methodology or willing to undertake

Knowledge

• Ability to work effectively as a team member under appropriate supervision
• Knowledge of when to seek advice and refer to a registered care professional
• Ability to work independently and to use own initiative as appropriate and as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Ability to deal with nonroutine and unpredictable nature of the workload and individual patient contact
• Insight into how to evaluate own strengths and development needs, seeking advice where appropriate
• Ability to take part in reflective practice and clinical supervision activities
• Understanding of the scope of the role of the Nursing Associate in context of the team and the organisation, and how the role may contribute to service development
• Understanding of evidence-based practice
• Understands and acts in line with NMC professional standards for practice as outlined in the Code

Values

• Continuous improvement - committed to making improvements to our services for the benefit of all
• Accountability - taking ownership to anticipate, develop and deliver high quality care
• Respect - how we treat others in an inclusive and supportive way
• Enthusiasm - demonstrate our passion and pride for what we do and how we do it
• Support - actively supporting others with compassion and courage

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).