Registered Nursing Associate

North West Borough Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool City Region; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 4 Nursing Associate to join our team in a full-time permanent role. The post offers opportunities to work autonomously within a robust support framework, with supervision and ongoing training.

The successful candidate will have experience in a treatment room setting or with a district nursing team, and will work with the multi-professional team to assess, plan, and deliver care in line with service needs and NMC standards.

Qualifications

• Time management and prioritisation ability.
• Intermediate IT skills.
• Commitment to continuous professional development.

Responsibilities

• Wound care
• Administering injections
• Performing Dopplers
• Applying compression bandages
• Ear irrigation
• Removal of sutures/clips

Skills

Time management

IT skills

CPD

Education

Nursing Associate Foundation Degree

NMC Registered as Nursing Associate

Tools

None

Job description

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

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Identity verification

Candidates attending interview will be required to provide original photographic identification where available. Where suitable photographic identification is not available, a photograph will be taken at interview for identity verification purposes. Successful candidates will also be required to complete digital identity and right to work checks via TrustID, including facial recognition and image matching technology, to verify their identity throughout the recruitment and onboarding process. Identity verification will also be undertaken on the first day of employment in line with NHS employment check requirements.

Job overview

Knowsley Treatment Rooms are looking to recruit a full time permanent Band 4 Nursing associate to join our team.

In return we offer the opportunity to be part of an exciting, challenging and developing service, with the ability to work autonomously within a robust framework of regular support, supervision and training opportunities.

The person we will choose must have experience in either a treatment room setting or worked with a district nursing team

The role of the Nursing Associate is to work with the multi professional team and the Registered Nurse to assess, plan, organise and deliver clinical care in line with service and patient needs, as agreed with supervising clinicians.

Nursing Associates are accountable professionals who are equipped with the knowledge, understanding, skills, attitudes and behaviours relevant to employment as a Nursing Associate and will work to a nationally recognised Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) code of conduct. They must meet the NMC standards of proficiency and recognise and work within the limits of their competency.

Main duties of the job

• Wound care
• Administering injections
• Performing Dopplers
• Applying Compression bandages
• Ear irrigation
• Removal of sutures/clips

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Wound care
• Administering injections
• Performing Dopplers
• Applying Compression bandages
• Ear irrigation
• Removal of sutures/clips

Person specification

Skills

Essential criteria

• Evidence of time management skills and ability to prioritise
• Intermediate IT skills
• Evidence of continuous professional development

Desirable criteria

• Skills in audit and improvement methodology or willing to undertake

Experience

Essential criteria

• Ability to work effectively as a team member under appropriate supervision
• Ability to work independently and to use own initiative as appropriate and as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Ability to deal with non routine 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

Desirable criteria

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

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• 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
• Ability to communicate effectively with members of the public and health and care providers
• Knowledge of when to seek advice and refer to a registered care professional
• Understanding of the importance of the promotion of health and wellbeing (Making Every Contact Count)

Qualifications

Essential criteria

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

Desirable criteria

• Additional post registration qualification relevant to field of practice

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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.

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