Nurse Associate Band 4

Nursing Associates bring valuable knowledge, skills, and professional behaviours to their roles and are expected to work in line with the NMC Code of Professional Standards of Practice and Behaviour for Nursing Associates. With a broad understanding of care across the lifespan, they provide holistic, person-centred support to individuals of all ages in a variety of settings. As part of the Hospital at Home Team, you will help deliver high-quality, person-centred acute nursing care directly to patients in their homes. You will have completed the Nursing Associate Foundation Degree and will play an important role in supporting patients within the community. In this role, you will carry out a wide range of duties delegated by a suitably registered practitioner, bringing core nursing values-compassion, competence, communication, courage, care, and commitment-to every stage of assessment, planning, delivery, and evaluation of care. You will have the opportunity to develop a broad range of competencies within the service and will work independently within your scope of practice, guided by a clear competency framework. Although you may work without direct supervision, you will remain accountable to an appropriate registered practitioner and will work in line with relevant policies and standard operating procedures at all times., As a Nurse Associate you will:

• Work in care teams with other professionals, providing practical help by delivering aspects of nursing care to vulnerable and often highly dependent patients.
• Use sound clinical reasoning skills when delivering care and therapy interventions
• Deliver a delegated workload against the needs of patients and service
• Treat all individuals with respect and maintain privacy, dignity and confidentiality
• Commit to personal and professional development
• Organise, prioritise and adjust own workload
• Accurately and effectively report on care undertaken and document changes in condition, maintain records, and ensure that there is feedback to the appropriate or responsible healthcare professional.
  
  Essential
• Registered as a Nurse Associate with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
• Experience of working within a clinical setting
• Knowledge of relevant legislation and its impact on current practice
• Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
• Effective verbal and written communication
• Excellent interpersonal skills and able to build effective working relationships with both clients and colleagues
• An ability to respond to people in distress
• Car driver, with access to own vehicle.
Desirable
• Previous experience in a care or health setting
• Experience of managing patients with complex needs in the community.
• Understanding national drivers and guidance relevant to Hospital at Home, or willingness to learn.
  
  We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can. As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

You will feel valued as a Nurse Associate Band 4 within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
• Band 4 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing - from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our 'Outstanding' learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding "good" or "outstanding" ratings from the Care Quality Commission
• Free tea and coffee at your base location