Community Nursing Associate

**Community Nursing Associate**:
**Band 4**:
**Main area**
- Nursing Associate
- **Grade**
- Band 4
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Shift patterns covering service provision between 0800 - 2200 hrs 7 days a week including weekends.)
- **Job ref**
- 201-23-534**Site**
- Coastal Cluster Community Nursing Team
- **Town**
- Blackwater, Truro
- **Salary**
- £23,949 - £26,282 Per Annum
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- 23/05/2023 23:59
- **Interview date**
- 06/06/2023Thank you for your interest in joining us at **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.**

**We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.**

**_ Strategic Themes_**

**_ Great Care_**:

- We will deliver safe, high quality, consistent and personalised care based on best practice. We are working to be a responsive organisation that listens and learns._

**_ Great Organisation_**_ _**:

- We work to be a green organisation, and our sustainability plan will deliver NHS net zero targets. We will support quality care, research and innovation. All our work will be underpinned by clear and transparent principles and systems._

**_ Great People _**:

- We will work together with our staff to create an organisation that supports our collective health and wellbeing. We will attract, retain and develop great people, and embed a caring, open, inclusive and restorative just culture that supports us to deliver quality care._

**_ Great Partner_**:

- With our partners we will deliver health care that improves people’s quality of life, prevents ill health and reduces inequalities. We will spend our money wisely to achieve high quality outcomes that matter to local people._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

**_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._**

**Job overview**:
**Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CFT) is excited to offer opportunities for qualified Nursing Associates within our Community District Nursing teams across Central Cornwall.**

**Are you passionate about providing high quality patient care? The Coastal Cluster Community Nursing team would like you to support them in delivering high quality care and support to people within the Coastal PCN.**

This is an exciting and fulfilling role and you will need to be able to demonstrate a real enthusiasm for nursing people in the community especially those approaching the end of their lives as well as a desire for on-going professional development.

**Proposed interview date: 6th June 2023**

**Main duties of the job**:
The role of the Nursing Associate is to work with the Registered Community Nurses and other members of the multi-professional team, providing and monitoring care and contributing to the ongoing assessment,
as agreed with supervising clinician(s) and in line with the service pathways. They will monitor the condition and health needs of people within their care on a continual basis in partnership with the multi professional team.

This role will support the Community Nursing team with organising the patients on the end-of-life or Continuing Care at Home caseload. Support the team with coordinating and delegating work to the Health Care Assistants. Support the team with organising other resources such as equipment. Support the team by providing supervision, teaching and coaching. To review patients on the case load and adjust care plans.

**Working for our organisation**:
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Som