Registered Nursing Associate | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool City Region; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust in Knowsley seeks a full-time permanent Nursing Associate (Band 4) to join our clinical team. You will work with a multi-professional team and the Registered Nurse to assess, plan, organise and deliver care in line with patient needs, under supervision.

Experience in a treatment room or with a district nursing team is preferred. The post offers autonomous practice within a supportive framework, with emphasis on wound care, Dopplers, compression bandages and

Qualifications

• Experience in a treatment room setting or with a district nursing team.
• Accountable professional who works within the NMC code of conduct.

Responsibilities

• Assess, plan, organise and deliver clinical care with supervising clinicians.
• Wound care.
• Performing Dopplers.
• Applying compression bandages.
• Removal of sutures/clips.

Skills

Nursing Associate (Band 4)

Job description

Registered Nursing Associate | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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 trainingopportunities.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.

Wound care

Performing Dopplers

Applying Compression bandages

Removal of sutures/clips

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.