Nurse Associate

3 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

The Nursing Associate will deliver a high level of care and evidence-based interventions. They will provide a wide range of practical care duties and be able to take appropriate action to achieve planned aims and objectives of individual clients with the supervision of the registered nurses; and be accountable for the standards of such delegated duties.

Work as part of a team to deliver quality evidence based nursing care to clients within intermediate care settings and their own home, residential homes, and clinical environments.

Maintain positive communication link between primary care, secondary care, social services, and voluntary agencies.

We have vacancies across Bexley and Greenwich District Nursing.

Main duties of the job

Manage priorities as delegated by the registered nurse.

To accept delegated assessment responsibility, delivering individual plans of care to meet the immediate needs and on-going needs of the service users and their carers.

To participate in the delivery of complex care as prescribed by the registered healthcare professional.

To have knowledge of specific physical, emotional, physiological, social, cultural and spiritual needs of patients and their carers.

To undertake other duties commensurate with the banding of this post in agreement with the relevant line manager

Plan and document the patients' progress on the Trust's information systems.

To maintain a professional standard of record keeping.

To evaluate patient progress and discuss with senior clinicians through feedback discussions and multi-disciplinary meetings.

To teach and demonstrate the correct use of equipment to optimise patients' functional ability and independence.

To teach and demonstrate elements of self-care to patients and their carers so that the patients' independence is maximised.

To contribute to the team and service development, identifying opportunities to improve service delivery.

Ability to identify/manage and take action to minimise or eradicate risk to patients.

Ensure safe, appropriate and effective provision and demonstration of stock equipment.

Ensure new team members are adequately introduced to the team during induction by providing peer support.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

We're Kind We're Fair We Listen We Care Job description

Job responsibilities

Maintain high level of efficiency and effectiveness in work area to utilise resources to the full and report defects in equipment in a timely manner.

Ensure risk is managed for self, clients, colleagues and the work environment.

Develop the Nursing Associate role by working proactively within the multi-disciplinary team.

Maintain efficient day to day running of the team by carrying out administrative tasks particularly related to record keeping, filing, supplies, errands and message taking, undertaking routine and general light cleaning/tidying tasks and preparing and cleaning equipment.

Maintain current statistics in accordance with the intermediate care team requirements.

Provide statistical information as required by manager in a timely manner.

Person Specification

Qualifications/Education

Essential

Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register. English and Mathematics basic qualifications (eg GCSE at Grade C or above or evidence of Level 2 in Functional skills for numeracy and literacy)

Desirable

Community Experience

Experience

Essential

Experience of working in teams under appropriate supervision as part of a multi-disciplinary team Understanding of the scope of the role of the Nursing Associate in context of the nursing and interdisciplinary team and the organisation Understands and acts in line with NMC professional standards for practice contained within The Code.

Desirable

Experience in different clinical care settings- including community.

Skills/Abilities & Knowledge

Essential

Communication and relationship skills Communications skills - receiving and conveying sensitive information, with staff and with service users and able to keep accurate records. Knowing when to escalate concerns and to whom. Able to provide quality care that is responsive to service user's needs, with supervision available but not always present, and acting on own initiative, within protocols, policies and care plans. Computer literacy

Desirable

Training and experience in specialist skills such as ECG, Vital Signs, Phlebotomy, Blood glucose monitoring, flash glucose monitoring.

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