Nursing Associate

**The closing date is 27th Jun 2024**

**Job summary**:
We are recruiting for Nursing Associates/Associate Practitioners who wish to join the Community Nursing Teams. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards great people, great place.

Do you want to be part of a service that has developed an excellent reputation for delivering high quality care to people within the community?

Then this job could be for you.

The team operate 7 days/week from 0800-2000 our primary function is to reduce hospitalisation rates for older adults living with frailty & co-morbidities by providing sub-acute treatments and interventions to enable people to stay within their own homes safely. Referrals come from multiple internal and external sources. CRR are working in conjunction with our ambulance service to increase referrals into CRR for 2-hour Urgent Crisis Response as set out by NHS England and NHS Improvement.

Our team won the 2021 Nursing Times Award for care of the older person.

The team consists of:
Nurse Consultant for the Older Persons Cluster

Advanced Clinical Practitioners

Registered Nurses

Physiotherapists

Occupational Therapist

Associate Practitioners

Nursing Associates

Admin

Third sector support

**Main duties, tasks & skills required**:
The successful applicant will be responsible for delivering high quality individualised patient centered care using a holistic approach. The role involves carrying out delegated routine assessments and interventions, spanning the professional domains of nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy.

Using a multidisciplinary approach, the successful applicant may carry out a number of duties from:
Clinical/ welfare checks

Concerned for welfare checks

Observation monitoring

Therapy and physio visits

Equipment instillation

2-hour response calls (from community nursing and the ambulance service)

This post is essential to the successful continuation of the CRR team to ensure that the team is well led, effective and resources are used effectively and is a truly exciting opportunity for a person who wishes to develop clinical and interpersonal skills working within a clinical environment that is dynamic and challenging.

The Nursing Associate/Assistant Practitioner will work alongside other practitioners in the Community Nursing team to provide high quality, efficient and effective care to patients, which works towards improving the lives of people on the Isle of Wight and delivering care in the patient's home.

**About us**:
Southern Health is one of the largest NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health and learning disabilities, as well as offering physical health community-based services.

With a workforce of more than 7000 and a footprint that spans more than 200 sites across Hampshire, we're wholeheartedly committed to providing the best possible healthcare, reaching a range of diverse communities, whilst placing patients and staff at the forefront of all our endeavours.

We are currently working closely with other NHS Trusts to integrate all our collective community, mental health, and learning disability services. Our new organisation, to be known as Hampshire and Isle of Wight NHS Foundation Trust, is set to launch in July 2024.

The transformation will happen in staggered stages; Hampshire CAMHS, part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust joined Southern Health in February 2024, with Isle of Wight NHS Trust mental health and community services transitioning in early May 2024. The final combination of Southern Health and Solent Trusts is anticipated to occur in July 2024, when the new organisation will be formed.

Our new Trust will continue to cater to the unique needs of different communities, making healthcare across the county more accessible, as well as offering staff more opportunities for career development, training and partnership working.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare in Hampshire.

**Job description**:
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential**:

- Formal Assistant Practitioner qualification / Health & Social Care Degree or equivalent OR
- Nursing Associate Qualification registered with the NMC
- Foundation Degree in Health & Social Care Practice
- Care certificate

**Desirable**:
Health & Social Care Foundation Degree or equivalent as required for post

**Experience**:
**Essential**:

- An awareness of risk management
- Significant experience of working in a relevant health or social care setting

**Desirable**:

- Experience of working in the community

**Additional Cri