Nursing Associate

Job overview

A Nursing Associate Role has become available across the Urgent Community Response  (UCR) and Frailty Virtual Ward Teams.

This is an exciting opportunity for a candidate to work within an expanding team supporting people being supported to remain in their own home during crisis or periods of illness.

Urgent Community Response and frailty virtual ward sits within the Community Integrated Response Team (CIRT) based at St Catherine's Health Centre and Arrowe Park Hospital, within the Community Response Division.

Main duties of the job

To support the UCR and frailty ward MDT and be delegated tasks from nursing  and community paramedic colleagues.  To assess and support with treatment and review of acutely unwell patients in people's own environments, including but not exclusively, medications management, wound and pressure care; phlebotomy, catheter care, clinical observations, supporting health care assistants within the team; being part of in service training programmes and supporting audit.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please carefully review the attached Person Specification and Job Description before applying for this position.

NOTE: only candidates with a Nursing Associate Foundation Degree and holding an NMC Nursing Associate Registration will be considered for tis post.