Nursing Associate

Job overview

***Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post***

The Nursing Associate will deliver a high level of care and evidence-based interventions. They will provide a wide range of practical care duties and be able to take appropriate action to achieve planned aims and objectives of individual clients with the supervision of the registered nurses; and be accountable for the standards of such delegated duties.

Work as part of a team to deliver quality evidence based nursing care to clients within intermediate care settings and their own home, residential homes, and clinical environments.

Maintain positive communication link between primary care, secondary care, social services, and voluntary agencies.

We have vacancies across Bexley and Greenwich District Nursing.

Main duties of the job

• Manage priorities as delegated by the registered nurse.
• To accept delegated assessment responsibility, delivering individual plans of care to meet the immediate needs and on-going needs of the service users and their carers.
• To participate in the delivery of complex care as prescribed by the registered healthcare professional.
• To have knowledge of specific physical, emotional, physiological, social, cultural and spiritual needs of patients and their carers.
• To undertake other duties commensurate with the banding of this post in agreement with the relevant line manager
• Plan and document the patients’ progress on the Trust’s information systems.
• To maintain a professional standard of record keeping.
• To evaluate patient progress and discuss with senior clinicians through feedback discussions and multi-disciplinary meetings.
• To teach and demonstrate the correct use of equipment to optimise patients’ functional ability and independence.
• To teach and demonstrate elements of self-care to patients and their carers so that the patients’ independence is maximised.
• To contribute to the team and service development, identifying opportunities to improve service delivery.
• Ability to identify/manage and take action to minimise or eradicate risk to patients.
• Ensure safe, appropriate and effective provision and demonstration of stock equipment.
• Ensure new team members are adequately introduced to the team during induction by providing peer support.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Maintain high level of efficiency and effectiveness in work area to utilise resources to the full and report defects in equipment in a timely manner.
• Ensure risk is managed for self, clients, colleagues and the work environment.
• Develop the Nursing Associate role by working proactively within the multi-disciplinary team.
• Maintain efficient day to day running of the team by carrying out administrative tasks particularly related to record keeping, filing, supplies, errands and message taking, undertaking routine and general light cleaning/tidying tasks and preparing and cleaning equipment.
• Maintain current statistics in accordance with the intermediate care team requirements.
• Provide statistical information as required by manager in a timely manner.

Please see JD attached for further information.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.