Nursing Associate- Hillingdon District Nursing

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

We are looking for Nursing Associates to work in our District Nursing teams over a seven day period with set shifts as follows 08.00hrs - 16.00hrs, 10.00hrs - 18.00hrs or 08.00 - 18.00hrs. Our teams are led by our incredibly experienced and supportive District Nurse Team Leads, all of whom obtain their specialist qualification in District Nursing. As well as working alongside your District nursing team colleagues, you will also work alongside and an array of speciality teams such as our Care Connection Team, Palliative Care Specialist team, Tissue Viability Team, Rapid Response Teams, Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists to name but a few; however, all of whom work collaboratively to ensure individualised patient centred care.

Hillingdon is the second largest London borough by area, located 14 miles west of central London. As we have Heathrow airport in our boundaries, it is that that we are the gateway to the UK It has been acknowledged that the borough of ‘Hillingdon is where town and meet’ due to our vast acreage of woodland, country parks, fields, farms, rivers and canals.

**Interview date**: TBC

Benefits of working as a Nursing Associate for CNWL Hillingdon:

- Outer London Weighting
- Training and career development opportunities
- Opportunities for research and audit to support innovative practice
- Open to flexible working patterns
- Good opportunity for permeant transition to community nursing teams.
- Intensive support from an assigned mentor and induction period.

CNWL is recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing integrated high quality, innovative healthcare. Our track record in recruiting only the best people is well known, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.
1. Understand and act in line with NMC professional standards for practice contained within the Standards of Proficiency for Nursing
2. Manage a delegated active caseload, working as a member of a skill mixed team, responsible for interacting constructively with team members and organising, prioritising and planning their work.
3. Use a range of assessment tools pertinent to the patients’ needs, to inform the assessment and assess risk for both patients and staff, including the recognition and assessment of patients at risk of abuse, self-harm/and or suicidal ideation and the situations that may put themselves and others at risk. Provide advice and support to patients to enable them to make informed choices in areas such as: diet, smoking and
4. Understand when to seek appropriate advice to manage a risk and avoid compromising quality of care and health outcomes acting in line with local and national organisational frameworks, legislation and regulations to report risks, and implement actions as
6. Demonstrate an ability to prioritise and manage their own workload, and recognise were elements of care can safely be delegated to other colleagues, carers and family members
7. Contribute to the provision of care for people, including those with complex Patient Care