Job summary
- Main area
- Community Nursing - Community Division
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 350-CC6400741
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Old Swan Urgent Treatment Centre
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Nursing Associate - Community Nursing
Band 4
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Job overview
Are you a Nursing Associate with a passion for delivering outstanding care as part of the team within the Urgent Treatment Centres in Liverpool. The successful candidate must have demonstrable experience, a wide range of clinical skills and will be confident to work without direct supervision once competencies are achieved.
You will be based in one of the urgent treatment centres in Liverpool (Old Swan or Garston), but there will be an expectation to move sites on occasions to support the wider service .
Shortlisting planned for 8 July
Interviews planned for 31 July
Main duties of the job
The role of the Nursing Associate is to work with the team to assess, plan, and deliver clinical care in line with service and patient need.
The Nursing Associate has a breadth of knowledge across the lifespan and across the fields of nursing, providing holistic and person centred care and support for people of all ages and in a variety of settings.
Nursing Associates are accountable professionals who are equipped with the knowledge, understanding, skills, attitudes and behaviours relevant to employment as a Nursing Associate and will work to a nationally recognised Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) code of conduct. They must meet the NMC standards of proficiency and recognise and work within the limits of their competency.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To support the registered clinicians in the service to provide high quality safe care to the patients accessing the service.
Assess, diagnose and treat patient conditions within the band 4 remit and with support from the registered clinicians.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Foundation Degree in Nursing Associate practice
- Current NMC Registration
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous experience of working within a healthcare setting
- Experience of working in teams under appropriate supervision as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Insight into how to evaluate own strengths and development needs, seeking advice where appropriate
- Experience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive information
- Breadth of person centred nursing knowledge
- Understanding of the scope of the role of the Nursing Associate in context of the nursing and interdisciplinary team and the organisation, and how the role may contribute to service development
- Understands and acts in line with NMC professional standards for practice contained within The Code
- Knowledge of when to seek advice and escalate to the appropriate professional for expert help and advice
- Understand requirements for NMC professional Revalidation
- Understanding of the importance of following procedures and treatment plans
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- IT skills appropriate to the role
- Ability to work well in a team
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Ability to organise and prioritise own workload
- Able to recognise own limitations in the context of the Nursing Associate role
- Ability to participate in reflective practice and clinical supervision activities.
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nicola Worthington
- Job title
- Operational Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07584531287
- Additional information
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