Nursing Associate

**Band 4**:
**Main area**
- Nursing Associate

**Grade**
- Band 4

**Contract**
- Permanent

**Hours**
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 9-5)

**Job ref**
- 201-25-480-A

**Site**
- Alexandra House

**Town**
- St Austell

**Salary**
- £27,485 - £30,162 Per Annum

**Salary period**
- Yearly

**Closing**
- 29/07/2025 23:59

Thank 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_**
- _Care based on what matters to people. _
- _Care provided at home or close to home. _
- _Improvement through learning, research and innovation. _
- _Prevention and alternatives to hospital._

**_Great Organisation_**
- _Buildings that support health and wellbeing. _
- _Technology enabled care. _
- _Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services. _
- _Safe, efficient, effective and productive._

**_Great People_**
- _A place people love to work and feel valued. _
- _Living our values with staff (all voices count). _
- _Attract, grow and develop talent. _
- _Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen._

**_Great Partner_**
- _Encourage and enable effective partnerships. _
- _Joined-up community services. _
- _Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities. _
- _Reduce our impact on the environment._
- _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**:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 4 nursing associate to work within the Mid Cornwall Locality in the Older People's Mental Health Community Service.

This is a newly developed role and the successful applicant will work within the Multidisciplinary team, completing mental health reviews for patients and supporting the Care Co-Ordinator's in their role.

The Mid Cornwall DOPMH Community Mental Health Service are a dynamic team who support patients presenting with acute and severe:

- Behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia of any age
- Functional mental health disorders over the age of 75

This job role will require the successful applicant to be able to independently travel to patient's houses within the Mid Cornwall area and will require loan working.

The role is for 37.5 hours per week. This will entail working Monday to Friday 09:00 - 17:00 (excluding 0.5 hour unpaid lunch break each day)

**Main duties of the job**:
This post will entail holding a caseload of patients who require mental health support including:

- Medication tolerance reviews
- Risk reviews
- Care Plan reviews
- Reviews of specific conditions including both functional and organic mental health disorders
- Administering long acting injectable antipsychotic medications and monitoring for side effects
- Reviews for patients under Section 117 of the MHA (1983)

This role will also require working within the Multidisciplinary Team. It will involve supporting the Community Psychiatric Nurses within the service in their roles as Care Co-ordinators and Duty Clinicians.

**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 of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people’s homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our p