Nursing Associate

Are you a compassionate and motivated Registered Nursing Associate looking to join a friendly and supportive GP practice team on the beautiful South Coast?, As a Nursing Associate, you will work closely with our registered nurses, GPs and wider multidisciplinary team to provide high-quality, person-centred care to our patients. You will support the delivery of a broad range of nursing services, helping patients to maintain their health and wellbeing while enabling registered nurses to focus on more complex clinical care.,

• Delivering high-quality clinical care under the direction of registered nurses and GPs
• Undertaking wound care and dressings
• Performing clinical observations including blood pressure, pulse, temperature and respiration monitoring
• Venepuncture, ECGs and vaccinations (following appropriate training and competency assessment)
• Supporting long-term condition monitoring and health promotion initiatives
• Contributing to immunisation, screening and public health programmes
• Assisting with minor surgical procedures
• Maintaining accurate clinical records and coding
• Working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to deliver excellent patient outcomes, The following are the core responsibilities of the Nursing Associate in delivering health services:
1. Deliver high quality, compassionate care while undertaking specific clinical and care tasks under the direction of a registered nurse (or other registered care professional) with a focus on promoting good health and independence 2. Provide high-quality holistic and person-centred care to individuals 3. Provide routine care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF 4. Provide wound care, dressings and other clinical tasks as required 5. Work as part of the MDT to provide and monitor care, under direct or indirect supervision and ensure delivery of nursing associate duties 6. Improve the safety and quality of care at every opportunity 7. Contribute to the delivery of integrated care 8. Work with a supervisor to take responsibility for developing own clinical competence, leadership and reflective practice skills within the workplace and enable you to deal effectively with the difficult issues that people present 9. Provide support and supervision to training nursing associates, healthcare assistants, apprentices and those on learning assignments/placements as required 10. Support registered nurses to enable them to be able to focus on the more complex clinical care 11. Develop relationships across the MDT to support the integration of the role across health and social care including primary care, secondary care and mental health 12. Maintain accurate and contemporaneous patient health records ensuring that clinical data is appropriately recorded with SNOMED codes 13. Perform and record clinical observations such as blood pressure, temperature, respirations and pulse including appropriate coding 14. After undertaking additional training, provide flu vaccinations, ECGs and venepuncture and other relevant clinical tasks as required and in line with the competencies of the role 15. Promote health and wellbeing to all patients, for example undertaking the NHS health check 16. Provide wound care (ulcer/Doppler etc.) to patients 17. Provide support during minor operations as required 18. Advise patients on general healthcare and promote self-management where appropriate, including signposting patients to personalised care colleagues and local community and voluntary sector services 19. Communicate proactively and effectively with all MDT colleagues, attending and contributing to meetings as required 20. Be aware of duties and responsibilities regarding current legislation and adhere to practice policies and procedures on Safeguarding Adults and Safeguarding Children 21. Process pathology results as required 22. Enhance own performance through continuous professional development, imparting own knowledge and behaviours to meet the needs of the service 23. Contribute to and embrace the spectrum of clinical governance 24. Attend a formal appraisal with your manager at least every 12 months. Once a performance/training objective has been set, progress will be reviewed on a regular basis so that new objectives can be agreed 25. Contribute towards public health and screening programmes, including immunisations and vaccinations 26. Support and deliver health promotion and wellbeing programmes including any opportunistic delivery 27. Maintain a clean, tidy, effective working area 28. Be an integral part of the general practice team, working in each practice and across the PCN, as well as supporting the wider multi-disciplinary team 29. Recognise boundaries of practice and know when and to whom patients should be referred 30. Demonstrate initiative and be creative in finding solutions to problems 31. Support in the management of patient complaints when requested to do so and participate in the identification of any necessary learning brought about through incidents and near-miss events 32. Undertake all mandatory training and induction programme There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks, this will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels,
• Registered nursing associate and on the Nursing and Midwifery Council register
  
  Experience of working in a primary care environment
• Ability to work effectively as a team player under appropriate supervision and as part of a multi-disciplinary team, Insight into how to evaluate own strengths and development needs, seeking advice where appropriate
• Experience of quality initiatives, i.e., benchmarking
• Understanding of the scope of the role of the nursing associate in the context of the nursing and interdisciplinary team and the organisation and how the role may contribute to service development, Effective time management (planning and organising)
• Ability to follow legal, ethical and professional policies / local policies/procedures and codes of conduct
• Ability to listen, empathise with people and provide person centred support in a non-judgemental way
• Understand the requirement for PSDs and associated policy
• Ability to use own initiative, discretion, and sensitivity
• Able to get along with people from all backgrounds and communities, respecting lifestyles and diversity
• Understanding of safeguarding adults and children
• Ability to identify risk and assess/manage risk
• Able to support people in a way that inspires trust and confidence, motivating others to reach their potential
• Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations
• Commitment to ongoing professional development
• Problem solver with the ability to process information accurately and effectively, interpreting data as required
• Ability to work to key policies and procedures
• Clear, polite telephone manner, Demonstrate personal accountability, emotional resilience and work well under pressure
• Knowledge of IT systems including the ability to use word processing skills, emails and the internet
• Effectively utilise resources, Ability to work within own scope of practice and understanding when to refer to clinical colleagues
• Ability to record accurate clinical notes
• Ability to communicate with members of the public and health and care providers
• Understand the importance of following procedures and treatment plans
• Chaperone experience
• Ability to take part in reflective practice and clinical supervision activities
• Ability to communicate effectively (written, verbal and non-verbal communication) with patients/relatives and carers and all members of the multi-disciplinary team
• Ability to develop effective and appropriate relationships with people, their families, carers and colleagues, Good clinical system IT knowledge TPP SystmOne
• Broad knowledge of clinical governance
• Experience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive information
• Understanding of the importance of the promotion of health and wellbeing
• Ability to support, supervise, assess and act as a role model to nursing associate students, other learners and healthcare support workers as required within the clinical setting, Meets the specific qualification and training requirements as specified in the Nursing Midwifery Standards of proficiency by having undertaken and completed the two-year Foundation Degree delivered by a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) approved provider
  
  What We Offer
• A supportive and welcoming team environment
• Opportunities for ongoing professional development and training
• Regular clinical supervision and support
• A varied and rewarding role within General Practice
• The opportunity to make a real difference to patients and the local community