Nursing Associate

3 weeks ago

Barnet, United Kingdom Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals Full time

**Main duties of the job**:
We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly-motivated Nursing Associate or Assistant Practitioner to join our friendly and supportive team in the Emergency Department at Barnet Hospital.

We can offer you a diverse working environment whilst allowing you to develop your Clinical skills, knowledge and expertise giving you the opportunity to gain advanced specialised skills to care for patients with complex needs.

You will work as part of the multi-disciplinary health care team providing planned care and delivering the highest standards of patient care within the ED. The role is exciting and challenging, where compassion, team work, excellent communication skills, emotional resilience and initiative are paramount.

**Working for our organisation**:
The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.

Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:

- Maintain professional behaviour at all times and promote a positive image of Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, in line with World Class Care
- To prioritise and manage own
- To monitor the condition and health needs of patients within their care on a continual basis in partnership with patients, families and
- To contribute to ongoing assessment, recognising when it is necessary to escalate to others for
- To communicate effectively with colleagues, providing clear verbal, digital or written information and instructions when sharing information, delegating or handing over responsibility for
- Recognise and report any situations, behaviours or errors that could result in poor care
- To undertake all nursing procedures in accordance with Trust policies and ensure that these procedures and policies are understood and adhered to by all staff, within own management
- the nursing associate is able to safely demonstrate and maintain competence of the following procedures:

- use manual techniques and devices to take, record and interpret vital signs including temperature, pulse, respiration, pulse oximetry, blood pressure monitoring
- safe administration of medicines via oral, topical and inhalation routes
- safe administration of injections using subcutaneous and intramuscular routes
- adminstration of medicines via the enteral route
- administer enemas and suppositories
- undertake routine venepuncuture, phlebotomy and ECGs
- measure and interpret blood glucose and Ketone levels
- monitoring accurate intake and output charts (fluid balance)
- wound care
- wound closure using simple techniques such as glue and steristrips
- best practice infection control
- continence assessment
- diabetes care
- chronic disease management
- pressure area care
- bowel care
- palliative care
- male and female catheterisation
- pain assessment
- documentation
- To establish effective working relations with all members of the multi-disciplinary team to promote good communication and a multi-disciplinary approach to patient
- To supervise unqualified staff, to ensure that they have the knowledge, skills and resources to carry out delegated aspects of

**Person specification**:
**Royal Free World Class Values**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values

**Education & professional Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register
- Nursing Associate foundation degree qualification
- GCSE Grade A-C in Maths and English or skills level 2 Maths & English or equivalent

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

- Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Insight into how to evaluate own strengths and development needs, seeking advice where appropriate
- Experience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive information
- Experience of working in an acute hospital

**Desirable criteria**:

- experience of working in an Emergency department

**Skills and aptitudes**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Ability to organize and prioritise own delegated workload
- Able to undertake the clinical skills outlined in the Job description
- Ability to deal with non
- routine and unpredictable nature of workload and individual patient contact
- Ability to communicate effectively (written, verbal and non-verbal communication) with patients/ relatives and carers and all members of the multi-disciplinary team.
- Ability to develop effective and appropriate relationships with people their families, carers and colleagues
- Ability to support, supervise, assess and act as a role model to tra

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