Registered Nursing Associate - Paediatric Assessment Unit

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a motivated Registered Nursing Associate for the Paediatric Assessment Unit. This role involves providing excellent patient-centered care, supporting children and families, and working collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team. Candidates must possess strong communication skills and be registered with the NMC.

Benefits

Excellent educational opportunities

Support from practice development team

Qualifications

• Currently registered with the NMC as a nurse associate.
• GCSE in Maths and English or equivalent required.
• Ability to manage workload independently.

Responsibilities

• Provide holistic and person-centered care across various settings.
• Work independently under the leadership of registered nurses.
• Support children and families with managing diabetes.

Skills

Communication

Interpersonal skills

IT skills

Teamwork

Education

Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register

GCSE Grade A-C in Maths and English or equivalent

Job description

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Registered Nursing Associate - Paediatric Assessment Unit

Band 4

Main area Paediatrics Grade Band 4 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 391-NMUH-7198655

Site North Middlesex University Hospital Town London Salary £31,081 - £33,665 per annum inclusive of HCAs (Pro-rata if LTFT) Salary period Yearly Closing 25/05/2025 23:59

The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.

The hospital has been on its present site for over 100 years and was established as an NHS trust by statute in December 1990. The Trust’s services are provided on the North Middlesex University Hospital site as well as a range of community sites across the London Borough of Enfield, including at partner hospitals. They provide services in collaboration with a range of partners, including local GPs, acute, mental health and other community health service providers across North Central London.

In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children’s community services in Enfield. It is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.

Job overview

We are looking to recruit a motivated, hardworking Nursing Associate to join the Paediatric Assessment Unit; the successful applicant should have excellent communication skills.

We expect you to perform with passion and drive, provide excellent care, and be supportive to patients, relatives, and other MDT members. You will be expected to promote an excellent standard of patient centered care in a supported environment. You must be prepared to work well within a team and have good interpersonal skills. We are seeking people that can demonstrate the trust values. Successful candidates must possess good IT skills.

The successful applicant will be able to develop their existing knowledge and skills in supporting children, young people and families with managing diabetes. The post will involve home visits and school visits so ability to travel is essential.

You must be currently registered with the NMC as a nurse associate

Main duties of the job

The nursing associate has a breadth of knowledge across the lifespan and across the fields of nursing, providing holistic and person-centered care supporting patients of all ages and in a variety of settings. The nursing associate works independently under the leadership of registered nurses, working within the scope of nursing care and within all aspects of the nursing process.

Nursing associates are equipped with knowledge relevant to employment as a nursing associate and will work to a nationally recognised code of conduct.

We offer a competency-based framework of development with support from our practice development team. We can offer you excellent educational opportunities from in house study courses to post graduate education through our affiliated universities.

Working for our organisation

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

A full list of duties and responsibilities will be found within the job description and requirements for the role can be found within the person specification.

Person specification

Education and qualifications

• • Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register
• • GCSE Grade A-C in Maths and English or skills level 2 Maths & English or equivalent

Skills/Abilities/ Experience

• • Ability to prioritise and manage your own workload appropriately and independently
• • Able to undertake the clinical skills outlined in the Job description
• • Ability to deal with non- routine and unpredictable nature of workload and individual patient contact
• • Ability to communicate effectively (written, verbal and non-verbal communication) with patients/ relatives and carers and all members of the multi-disciplinary team.
• • Ability to develop effective and appropriate relationships with people their families, carers and colleagues
• • Ability to support, supervise, assess and act as a role model to trainee nursing associates, nursing assistants as required within the clinical setting.
• • Excellent communication skills- written and verbal

Experience and knowledge

• • Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• • Insight into how to evaluate own strengths and development needs, seeking advice where appropriate
• • Experience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive information Understanding of confidentiality issues
• Friendly, approachable and punctual.
• Accountability – Takes responsibility for own actions and promotes good Team working
• Openness – Shares information and good practice appropriately
• Mutual respect – Treats others with courtesy and respect at all times
• Flexible approach to working practices

Other requirements

• • Understands and acts in line with the NMC professional standards for practice contained with The Code
• • Understanding of the scope of the role of the Nursing Associate in context of the nursing and interdisciplinary team and the organization, and how the role may contribute to service development
• • Knowledge of when to seek advice and escalate to the appropriate professional expert help and advice
• • Understand requirements for NMC professional Revalidation
• • Understanding of the importance of following procedures and treatment plans

Trust Values

• Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

You will only be contacted by the Recruitment Team via email if you are shortlisted for this post. Please ensure therefore that you check your e-mail account regularly.

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If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks youridentity and right to work documentation will be verifiedremotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

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Application numbers

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.