Associate Nurse/Practitioner Intermediate Care Community

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Associate Nurse/Practitioner  to join an established team within the intermediate care setting. This is a multi-disciplinary team working closely with nursing and therapy staff to provide care and support for patients following discharge from hospital or other settings. The team provides input to local residential homes, step-down/up facilities and short term rehabilitation bedded unit at Sir John Mason House. The post involves working in the community setting throughout Northern Lincolnshire

Main duties of the job

The Nursing Associate/Practitioner will support the nursing workforce to provide safe effective care; ensuring evidence based care for patients under the indirect supervision and leadership of a registered nurse (RN).

The Nursing Associate will be proficient and competent and work within their scope of practice as governed by the NMC Code (2018) and NMC Standards of Proficiency (2018).

The Nursing Associate/Assistant Practitioner  will provide holistic and person centred care and support for people in their care.

The Nursing Associate/Assistant Practitioner  may be expected to participate in audits and service improvement initiatives.

The Nursing Associate/Assistant Practitioner  will be expected to supervise and support HCAs, Trainee Nursing Associates and Pre-registration nurses.

It is anticipated that this role will continue to develop through the acquisition of further skills based on NMC (2018) guidelines and development of the Nursing Associate role.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients.  We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

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