Nursing Associate

**Nursing Associate**:
**Band 4**:
**Main area**
- Nursing Associate
- **Grade**
- Band 4
- **Contract**
- 6 months (Fixed Term / Secondment)
- **Hours**
- Full time
- Part time

37.5 hours per week
- **Job ref**
- 201-22-827-B**Site**
- Bodmin Hospital
- **Town**
- Bodmin
- **Salary**
- £22,549 - £24,882 Per annum / pro rata
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- Today at 23:59Thank 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**:
**Harbour Community and Assessment and Treatment Unit (CATU)**

**Bodmin Community Hospital**

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CFT) is excited to offer opportunities for Nursing Associates within our newly developed CATU.

Patients are admitted direct for assessment from home or ED.

Are you passionate about providing high quality patient care and would like to be part of this new development in the patient pathway?

Do you enjoy acute nursing and dynamic patient flow? The CATU model is an innovative and dynamic patient pathway of which a key aspect is the assessment of the acute patient and treatment of symptoms aiming to return the patient to their home with the right support. You will be empowered to utilise a range of nursing skills (supported by training) to support patients through a clinical admission, assessment, and ongoing treatment.

Personal development opportunities are supported such as the Long-Term Conditions course, Nurse prescribing and Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP).

You should possess commitment to team working and innovative delivery of excellent standards of care. You will need to be able to demonstrate a real enthusiasm for using extended skills and a desire for on-going professional development.

There will be opportunities to lead patient care, taking on differing nursing roles on the unit such as the day case referrals and ensuring that patient care is kept to a high standard

**Main duties of the job**:
The role of the Nursing Associate is to work with the Registered 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.

**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