Nursing Associate

Job overview

The Nightingale breast unit houses several key services that facilitate a fully integrated ‘onestop’ diagnostic pathway by offering a state of the art diagnostic and treatment service to women and men with breast diseases. The service aims to provide a high quality safe and supportive environment in order to care for patients diagnosed with breast cancer or benign disease, meeting the identified physical and psychological needs.  We are looking to appoint 1 x  Band 4 Nursing Associate Registrant who is enthusiastic, motivated, flexible, dynamic and passionate.  This clinical role involves providing holistic nursing care in both our Consultant and nurse led clinics, knowledge of breast care is therefore desirable. The successful candidate will be part of a team of clinical breast nurses who are central to the delivery of high levels of patient care within the multiple breast clinics which also includes facilitating aseptic procedures within a radiological setting.  You will also be expected to manage our daily dressings clinic, assessing and implementing care plans, therefore knowledge of acute and chronic wounds is essential.   You must have the ability to multi-task and prioritise under pressure, work within a large multi-disciplinary team. If you are passionate about patient care, a great communicator, with excellent leadership and organisational skills and have the ability to influence change we look forward to hearing from you.

Main duties of the job

You would also be expected to work flexible hours covering evening Clinics and weekend work.

A calm, diplomatic and caring approach is necessary and you must have the ability to deal with the varied and challenging demands of the unit.

Manage Nurse Led Clinics which involve Complex dressings clinics, Blood clinics.

Managing staff workloads, delegating tasks.

Co-ordinating clinics.

Assisting with asceptic procedures within clinics and radiology

Problem solving.

Quality improvement and audits

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading.   So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification.  This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’.  Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post.  As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you.  If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [email protected].

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!