Nurse Associate

Job description

Job responsibilities

The following are the core responsibilities of the Nursing Associate in delivering health services:

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

Provide high-quality holistic and person-centred care to individuals

Provide routine care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF

Provide wound care, dressings and other clinical tasks as required

Work as part of the MDT to provide and monitor care, under direct or indirect supervision and ensure delivery of nursing associate duties

Improve the safety and quality of care at every opportunity

Contribute to the delivery of integrated care

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

Support registered nurses to enable them to be able to focus on the more complex clinical care

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

Maintain accurate and contemporaneous patient health records ensuring that clinical data is appropriately recorded with SNOMED codes

Perform and record clinical observations such as blood pressure, temperature, respirations and pulse including appropriate coding

Provide flu vaccinations, venepuncture and other relevant clinical tasks as required and in line with the competencies of the role

Promote health and wellbeing to all patients, for example undertaking the NHS health check

Provide support during minor operations as required

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• 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

Desirable

• Experience of using SystmOne

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered nursing associate and on the Nursing and Midwifery Council register
• 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

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Mallard Medical Practice

Address

Killingworth Health Centre

Killingworth

Newcastle upon Tyne

NE12 6HS

Employer's website

https://www.mallardmedicalpractice.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)