# Assistant Practitioner/ Registered Nurse Associate > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/assistant-practitioner-registered-nurse-associate/2c24f86a-e8bc-4396-add6-c856d495e479 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/assistant-practitioner-registered-nurse-associate/2c24f86a-e8bc-4396-add6-c856d495e479.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Southampton - **Region:** South East - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Healthcare support worker - **Grade:** Band 4 - **Salary:** £28392 - £31157 Per annum - Pro rata - **Contract type:** 6 months (6 months fixed term contract or secondment) - **Employment type:** Part time - 36 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-14T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-09T23:02:47.558Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Hampshire/Southampton/University_Hospital_Southampton_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Ophthalmology/Ophthalmology-v8104865 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8104865?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.uhs.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us. Please see below for detailed job description of the role. ### Main duties of the job An exciting opportunity has become available in our busy, fast paced Eye outpatients department for a Band 4 Assistant Practitioner/ Registered Nurse Associate  . We are looking for a highly motivated individual who demonstrates great professionalism, has leadership skills they would like to further develop and wants to be a part of a growing team.  The right candidate will be integral to the growth of the team and the service. This is a part-time, fixed term position. Eye outpatients provides a positive work life balance with clinics currently running from Monday to Saturday. Eye outpatients is a dynamic department that continues to change & develop, this requires the successful applicant to be flexible, forward thinking and have the skills to motivate peers. As a large team with over 50 staff members, we stretch over 2 locations: Southampton and Lymington hospitals and we see up to 200 patients per session.     The successful candidate will need to be highly motivated, professional, flexible, trustworthy and positive role model. The ability to supervise, teach, empower and coach staff it’s essential for this role. Ophthalmic experience would be ideal, however, training will be provided.  The ideal candidate would be Medicine Management competent. If you think this is an opportunity you would like to take, then we look forward to hearing from you. We would highly recommend an informal visit before applying. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Main duties: - Develop own knowledge and skills, and provide information to others to help their development.  - Monitor and maintain health, safety and security of self and others.  - Contribute to the improvement of services.  - Maintain quality in own work and encourage others to do the same.  - Support equality and value diversity, identifying when own or others’ behaviour undermines equality and diversity.  - Health and well-being: plan, develop and implement approaches to promote health and well-being, preventing adverse affects to health and well-being contribute to assessing and undertaking health and well-being needs,  - Help patients meet health and well-being needs  - Input, store and provide data and information  - Demonstrate clinical expertise acting as a role model within the clinical specialty  - Facilitate a good learning environment for staff and learners  - Establish and maintain communication with a range of people on a range of matters in a form that is appropriate to them and the situation. - Demonstrate good IT skills or being open to learn  - Medicine Management competent ## Person Specification ### Trust Values **Essential** - Patient First - Working Together - Always Improving ### Qualifications, knowledge and experience **Essential** - Nursing Associate on the NMC register. - OR Assistant Practitioner with a health-related Foundation Degree e.g. Foundation Degree in Health and Social Care. - OR Overseas nursing qualification without NMC registration at UK Academic level 5 Evidence of numeracy and literacy – minimum national qualification level 2 - Experience of working under appropriate supervision as part of a multidisciplinary team. - Experience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive information. - Knowledge of nursing procedures and practices in an acute hospital setting. **Desirable** - Assessed as competent to administer medications. - Acute apprenticeship units as appropriate to UHS Care Group/Divisional requirements. - Extended clinical skills e.g. venesection/cannulation. ## Documents - [job description & person specification (pdf, 312.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10399379) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.