Job summary
Lea Vale Medical Group have an exciting opportunity for a Nurse Associate to join our supportive team.
You will provide a full range of nursing support to the Practice Nurses and General Practitioners to ensure provision of holistic and person-centred care for our patient population.
You will work with a diverse range of people and the ability to work confidently and effectively in a varied environment is essential.
What does Lea Vale offer:
- Competitive Salary
- Friendly, approachable team
- Support to guide your personal and professional development
- Excellent training opportunities
Main duties of the job
You will assist
clinical staff across the practice in the provision of treatment, preventative
care and health promotion. You will work as a member of the Nursing team, under the guidance of a Registered General Nurse, and must work at all times within your own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
You will play a key role in delivering high-quality patient care, with a focus on promoting health and wellbeing, monitoring long-term conditions, providing health education and preventative advice, and carrying out screening activities. Working collaboratively with the wider team, you will ensure patient needs are met while upholding the highest standards of care and supporting the implementation of policies and procedures.
The successful candidate will have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and be organised, patient and empathetic.
About us
We are a CQC outstanding rated practice who believes
in delivering high quality primary care services through effective teamwork and
constant learning.
We are looking for clinicians who share the same
teamworking ethics to join our team.
We learn from the past but are always looking to the
future. This is true for when we look for new staff as well, your skills and
experience will be what make you suitable for this role, but we are more
interested in your ideas for the future! How you want to develop yourself and
how that will improve our practice and the service we offer to our patients.
We work with people to understand what being safe means to them as well as with our partners on the best way to achieve this. We concentrate on improving people's lives while protecting their right to live in safety, free from bullying, harassment, abuse, discrimination, avoidable harm and neglect. We make sure we share concerns quickly and appropriately.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Work as part of the Practices Multidisciplinary team to provide and monitor care, under direct or indirect supervision
- Support registered nurses to enable them to be able to focus on the more complex clinical care
- Develop relationships across the practice to support integration of the role across health and social care including primary care, secondary care, and mental health
- Perform and record clinical observations such as blood pressure, temperature, respirations, and pulse
Provide wound care, dressings and other clinical tasks as required
Perform ECGs, and venepuncture, and other relevant clinical tasks as required by the practice, in line with the competencies of the role
With additional training take part in the routine vaccination programme using Patient Group Directives
Promote health and well-being to all patients, for example undertaking the NHS health check
- Care for individuals with complex conditions such as dementia, mental health conditions, and learning disabilities
- 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
- Communicate proactively and effectively with all colleagues across the Practice, attending and contributing to meetings as required
- Maintain accurate and contemporaneous patient health records
Please see job description and person specification for full description.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Work as part of the Practices Multidisciplinary team to provide and monitor care, under direct or indirect supervision
- Support registered nurses to enable them to be able to focus on the more complex clinical care
- Develop relationships across the practice to support integration of the role across health and social care including primary care, secondary care, and mental health
- Perform and record clinical observations such as blood pressure, temperature, respirations, and pulse
Provide wound care, dressings and other clinical tasks as required
Perform ECGs, and venepuncture, and other relevant clinical tasks as required by the practice, in line with the competencies of the role
With additional training take part in the routine vaccination programme using Patient Group Directives
Promote health and well-being to all patients, for example undertaking the NHS health check
- Care for individuals with complex conditions such as dementia, mental health conditions, and learning disabilities
- 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
- Communicate proactively and effectively with all colleagues across the Practice, attending and contributing to meetings as required
- Maintain accurate and contemporaneous patient health records
Please see job description and person specification for full description.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- 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
- Detailed knowledge and understanding of appropriate procedures and treatment plans
- Understanding of the scope of the role of the Nursing Associate in context of the team and the organisation, and how the role contributes to Quality Improvement
Desirable
- Experience of working in a primary care environment
Skills
Essential
- Ability to take part in reflective practice and clinical supervision activities
- Ability to organise and prioritise own delegated workload
- Ability to deal with non- routine and unpredictable nature of workload and individual patient contact
- 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 support, supervise, assess and act as a role model to nursing associate students, other learners and health care support workers as required within the clinical setting.
- Knowledge of and ability to work to policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance and health and safety
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register
- Nursing Associate foundation degree qualification
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- 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
- Detailed knowledge and understanding of appropriate procedures and treatment plans
- Understanding of the scope of the role of the Nursing Associate in context of the team and the organisation, and how the role contributes to Quality Improvement
Desirable
- Experience of working in a primary care environment
Skills
Essential
- Ability to take part in reflective practice and clinical supervision activities
- Ability to organise and prioritise own delegated workload
- Ability to deal with non- routine and unpredictable nature of workload and individual patient contact
- 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 support, supervise, assess and act as a role model to nursing associate students, other learners and health care support workers as required within the clinical setting.
- Knowledge of and ability to work to policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance and health and safety
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register
- Nursing Associate foundation degree qualification
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
