Nursing Associate

At Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, our Community Team is driven by a shared passion for patient care and staff well-being. We take pride in creating a supportive and inclusive work environment, which has earnt us recognition as one of the best mental health and learning disability Trusts in the country. We are also honoured to be the number one Trust for staff morale.

Are you a Nursing Associate with experience in mental health or learning disabilities, or do you have an interest in working in this field? As a member of our dedicated Community Mental Health Team you’ll provide high-quality patient care in our community, ensuring that patients receive safe, personalised treatment. You’ll work collaboratively with a range of internal and external partners, GPs, Neighbourhood teams, Social workers and Integrated Placed based teams.

Your well-being matters to us, so you can choose from flexible hours, part-time or hybrid working arrangements to suit your lifestyle. You must have a RMN qualification and registered with the Nursing & Midwifery Council and have some experience working in a community setting. Ability to travel around the county without the use of public transport is essential.

Perform nursing interventions advocated within the service users care plan, recognise the contribution of others in the provision of service user care.
- Involve service users and carers in the planning and delivery of care
- Monitor the impact and effectiveness of nursing care delivered
- Create and maintain accurate patient records

Identify and problem solve in routine clinical issues

Participate in regular clinical supervision

Good knowledge of the medication management policy and safely administer medication as prescribed.

Be able to demonstrate competence in providing and promoting physical health care checks to service users within the scope of their practice.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this

We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.

This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Practice

Provide therapeutic interventions with a service user

Monitor the condition and health needs of people within their care on a continual basis in partnership with service users, families and carers

Contribute to ongoing assessment, recognising when it is necessary to refer to others for reassessment

Perform nursing interventions advocated within the service users care plan

Recognise the contribution of others in the provision of service user care

Involve service users/ carers in the planning and delivery of care in a compassionate and appropriate manner which considers their diverse needs

Maintain the welfare and safety of service users and protect them from any form of abuse in accordance with safeguarding guidance

Monitor the impact and effectiveness of nursing care delivered

Demonstrate a knowledge of information governance and the need to protect service user confidential information

Make and maintain accurate records of nursing care in accordance with the professional (NMC) guidance and Trust policy

Demonstrate problem solving skills by identifying solutions in routine clinical issues

Participate in regular clinical supervision

Engage in public health, community development and in the reduction of health inequalities

Be able to identify role boundaries

Medicines Management as delegated by the Nurse in Charge and within the scope of practice and competency of the designated practitioner

Leadership

Demonstrate the ability to lead, support and develop junior staff

Work in partnership with multi-professional colleagues or agencies

Participate in service developments

Contribute to innovation and new ways of working

Take part in local aud