Registered Nursing Associate

Job overview

An exciting opportunity for a Registered Nursing Associate has arisen in the Sudbury Community Health Team. The team are based in the Health Centre in Sudbury which is a historic market town surrounded by picturesque villages. The Sudbury Community Health Centre is the base for a wide range of other health professionals and agencies including Adult Social Care, mental health services and a GP practice so we are able to work together in a fully integrated way.  The successful applicant will hold a foundation degree in the field of nursing and will be joining a friendly team of Community Nurses and Therapists.  You will be using skills drawn mainly from the professional area of nursing but you may also be providing therapy support to patients in the community. You will be visiting the patients in their own home and assessing patients within specified clinical areas as identified by a registered practitioner. You will have the opportunity to prepare for, carry out and monitor assessments and treatments in specified clinical areas, implementing the patient’s individualised care plan designed in collaboration with the registered nurses in the team

Main duties of the job

On site at the health centre you have access to a range of treatment facilities and may be involved in delivering nursing care in specialist clinics. You will be using a wide range of nursing skills and will need to be confident in your assessment skills and in your ability to provide safe, effective treatments whilst working in a community setting. Experience of carrying out holistic nursing assessments, supporting the nursing staff to meet a patient’s palliative care needs, wound management, diabetic care, catheter care and venepuncture skills will be essential. You will have regular clinical support but you need to be prepared to be able to work predominantly independently on specified tasks and be able to demonstrate basic clinical reasoning for treatment progressions. You will have the chance to be fully involved in working with the MDT and integrating with social services, hospice and hospital staff and will need to be committed to ongoing learning and development in the team. In addition, your duties will include acting as mentor and role model to other support staff

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The role of the Registered Nursing Associate is to work with the multi professional team and the Registered Nurse contributing to the ongoing assessment of patients and providing and monitoring care in line with care plans which have been written and agreed by the Registered Nurse or therapist. You will be accountable for delivering compassionate, person centred, evidenced based care. You will monitor the condition and health needs of people within your care on a continual basis in partnership with the multi professional team, recognising and responding to changes in the patient’s condition and escalating these in a timely way