Job summary
Are you a qualified Nursing Associate looking for a rewarding new opportunity in community care?
Do you have a passion for supporting patients living with frailty and delivering compassionate, person-centred care in their homes and local communities?
Join Nimbuscare's Community Frailty Hub and take the next step in your nursing journey.
We are seeking a dedicated Qualified Nursing Associate to support the assessment, planning and delivery of care for patients living with frailty under the supervision of a registered nurse.
Interviews are expected to be held on 23 July in York. Kindly take this into consideration when submitting your application.
There is no sponsorship available for this role.
If you do not hear from us within two weeks of the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful.
Agencies need not reach out.
Main duties of the job
Contribute to service delivery and patient care.
Monitor patients condition, identifying and escalating
patients with deteriorating health
Inform MDT/nursing team of any concerns.
Using knowledge and experience ensure decisions are
evidence based with a solution focussed approach.
Conduct the holistic assessment and care of patients with
frailty using the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment.
Provide safe, compassionate and person-centred nursing care
Work within standards of proficiency, code of conduct and
scope of practice
Work within own limitations and flag to nursing staff when
support is needed.
About us
Nimbuscare is one of the largest 'at scale' providers of
primary care in the North of England, caring for more than 250,000 patients
across our 11 Member GP Practices.
We work collaboratively across the York area delivering new,
innovative, and sustainable health care services.
As leaders in local care, our goal is to work together
across the health and care system to improve the health, wellbeing, and
experience of our patients.
To learn more about Nimbuscare please visit our website at
www.nimbuscare.co.uk
In line with the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR),
Nimbuscare will use and hold your personal data for the intended purpose.
We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of
children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and
volunteers.
Nimbuscare is committed to improving the diversity of its
workforce to better reflect the communities we serve. We welcome applications
from everyone and work to promote an inclusive supportive culture that values
and celebrates our differences.
As a Disability Confident Committed employer disabled
applicants who meet the essential criteria for this job are guaranteed an
interview.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
Contribute to service delivery and patient care.
Monitor patients condition, identifying and escalating patients with deteriorating health
Inform MDT/nursing team of any concerns.
Using knowledge and experience ensure decisions are evidence based with a solution focussed approach.
Conduct the holistic assessment and care of patients with frailty using the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment.
Provide safe, compassionate and person-centred nursing care
Work within standards of proficiency, code of conduct and scope of practice
Work within own limitations and flag to nursing staff when support is needed.
Collaboration & Multidisciplinary Work:
- Work closely with other healthcare professionals, including physicians, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, social prescribers and VCSE partners and social workers, to ensure a holistic approach to patient care.
- Attend multidisciplinary meetings to discuss patient progress and care plans.
- Advocate for frailty patients' needs and ensure effective communication among all involved parties.
Patient & Family Support:
- Provide support and education to patients and their families about frailty management, self-care, and available resources.
- Work in partnership with patients, families and carers to monitor the condition and health needs of the patient and escalate any concerns to nurse in charge.
- Address patient, family and carers concerns and ensure they are involved in care decisions where appropriate.
- Help patients and families navigate healthcare systems and community resources.
Compliance & Documentation:
- Maintain accurate, detailed, and up-to-date patient records in line with organisational policies.
Staff Training & Development:
- Attend training programs to enhance knowledge and skills related to frailty care.
- Promote evidence-based practice and ongoing professional development.
Business responsibilities:
- Maintain ethos and culture of Nimbuscare.
- Positively promote Nimbuscare.
- Support Line Managers as required.
- Adhere to Health & Safety and educate staff within your role.
- Apply Nimbuscare policies, standards and guidance.
- Attend in-house governance, educational and staff meetings as appropriate.
- Suggest and support the introduction of new working processes to optimise quality.
- Communicate to ensure that all employees operate as an effective team.
- Build and maintain relationships with other healthcare professionals, including GPs, GP surgery personnel, care home personnel and CCG personnel etc.
Safeguarding:
- Everyone within Nimbuscare has a responsibility for, and is committed to, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults-at-risk (vulnerable adults), children and young people and for ensuring that they are protected from harm.
- Be fully aware of and understand your duties and responsibilities arising from the Childrens Act 2004 and Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018, in relation to child protection and safeguarding children and young people.
- Be fully aware of and understand your duties and responsibilities arising from the DOH Policy No Secrets (2000), and the principles of safeguarding as they apply to Adults-at-risk (vulnerable adults) in relation to your work.
- Recognise the types and signs of abuse and neglect.
- Ensure the Nimbuscare Safeguarding Lead is alerted to, and kept fully informed of, any concerns you may have in relation to safeguarding adults, children and young people.
- Adhere to Nimbuscare and local Child Protection and Safeguarding Adult policies and procedures.
Professional Development and Education Responsibilities:
- Participation in individual performance reviews, including maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development.
- Working in conjunction with management, assess own learning needs and undertake learning as appropriate.
- Make effective use of learning opportunities within and outside the workplace, evaluating their effectiveness and feeding back relevant information.
- Disseminate learning and information gained to other team members to share good practice and inform others about current and future developments.
- Undertake mandatory and statutory training as required.
Team working:
- Understand own role and scope in the organisation and identify how this may develop over time.
- Work as an effective and responsible team member, supporting others.
- Accept delegation from senior staff, prioritise own workload.
- Recognise and work within the limits of competence and be responsible for own actions.
- Participate in team activities that create opportunities to improve patient care.
- Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance.
- Participate and support local projects as agreed with the management team.
- Delegate clearly and appropriately, adopting the principles of safe practice and assessment of competence of those taking on delegated duties.
Confidentiality:
- In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that you will respect their privacy and act appropriately.
- In the performance of your duties outlined in this Job Description, you may have access to confidential information relating to customers and their carers, Nimbuscare staff and other healthcare workers. You may also have access to information relating to Nimbuscare as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.
- Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of Nimbuscare may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with Nimbuscare policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.
- Be aware of your responsibilities under the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).
Health & Safety:
- You will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the Nimbuscare Health & Safety Policy, to include:
- Using personal security systems within the workplace according to guidelines.
- Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks.
- Making effective use of training to update your knowledge and skills.
- Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards.
- Reporting potential risks identified.
Equality and Diversity:
- You will support the equality, diversity and rights of customers, carers and colleagues, to include:
- Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Nimbuscare procedures and policies, and current legislation.
- Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues.
- Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Quality:
- You will strive to maintain quality within Nimbuscare, and will:
- Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk.
- Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under
Supervision:
- Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.
- Work within own limitations and experience.
- Be aware of and co-operate with audit.
- Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs.
- Always portray a professional image.
Communication:
- You should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
- Communicate effectively with other team members.
- Communicate effectively with customers and carers.
- Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
This list of duties is not exhaustive
Other:
This job description is neither exhaustive nor exclusive and will be reviewed periodically in conjunction with you. You are required to carry out any duties that may reasonably be requested.
Please see attached job description.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
Contribute to service delivery and patient care.
Monitor patients condition, identifying and escalating patients with deteriorating health
Inform MDT/nursing team of any concerns.
Using knowledge and experience ensure decisions are evidence based with a solution focussed approach.
Conduct the holistic assessment and care of patients with frailty using the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment.
Provide safe, compassionate and person-centred nursing care
Work within standards of proficiency, code of conduct and scope of practice
Work within own limitations and flag to nursing staff when support is needed.
Collaboration & Multidisciplinary Work:
- Work closely with other healthcare professionals, including physicians, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, social prescribers and VCSE partners and social workers, to ensure a holistic approach to patient care.
- Attend multidisciplinary meetings to discuss patient progress and care plans.
- Advocate for frailty patients' needs and ensure effective communication among all involved parties.
Patient & Family Support:
- Provide support and education to patients and their families about frailty management, self-care, and available resources.
- Work in partnership with patients, families and carers to monitor the condition and health needs of the patient and escalate any concerns to nurse in charge.
- Address patient, family and carers concerns and ensure they are involved in care decisions where appropriate.
- Help patients and families navigate healthcare systems and community resources.
Compliance & Documentation:
- Maintain accurate, detailed, and up-to-date patient records in line with organisational policies.
Staff Training & Development:
- Attend training programs to enhance knowledge and skills related to frailty care.
- Promote evidence-based practice and ongoing professional development.
Business responsibilities:
- Maintain ethos and culture of Nimbuscare.
- Positively promote Nimbuscare.
- Support Line Managers as required.
- Adhere to Health & Safety and educate staff within your role.
- Apply Nimbuscare policies, standards and guidance.
- Attend in-house governance, educational and staff meetings as appropriate.
- Suggest and support the introduction of new working processes to optimise quality.
- Communicate to ensure that all employees operate as an effective team.
- Build and maintain relationships with other healthcare professionals, including GPs, GP surgery personnel, care home personnel and CCG personnel etc.
Safeguarding:
- Everyone within Nimbuscare has a responsibility for, and is committed to, safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults-at-risk (vulnerable adults), children and young people and for ensuring that they are protected from harm.
- Be fully aware of and understand your duties and responsibilities arising from the Childrens Act 2004 and Working Together to Safeguard Children 2018, in relation to child protection and safeguarding children and young people.
- Be fully aware of and understand your duties and responsibilities arising from the DOH Policy No Secrets (2000), and the principles of safeguarding as they apply to Adults-at-risk (vulnerable adults) in relation to your work.
- Recognise the types and signs of abuse and neglect.
- Ensure the Nimbuscare Safeguarding Lead is alerted to, and kept fully informed of, any concerns you may have in relation to safeguarding adults, children and young people.
- Adhere to Nimbuscare and local Child Protection and Safeguarding Adult policies and procedures.
Professional Development and Education Responsibilities:
- Participation in individual performance reviews, including maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development.
- Working in conjunction with management, assess own learning needs and undertake learning as appropriate.
- Make effective use of learning opportunities within and outside the workplace, evaluating their effectiveness and feeding back relevant information.
- Disseminate learning and information gained to other team members to share good practice and inform others about current and future developments.
- Undertake mandatory and statutory training as required.
Team working:
- Understand own role and scope in the organisation and identify how this may develop over time.
- Work as an effective and responsible team member, supporting others.
- Accept delegation from senior staff, prioritise own workload.
- Recognise and work within the limits of competence and be responsible for own actions.
- Participate in team activities that create opportunities to improve patient care.
- Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance.
- Participate and support local projects as agreed with the management team.
- Delegate clearly and appropriately, adopting the principles of safe practice and assessment of competence of those taking on delegated duties.
Confidentiality:
- In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that you will respect their privacy and act appropriately.
- In the performance of your duties outlined in this Job Description, you may have access to confidential information relating to customers and their carers, Nimbuscare staff and other healthcare workers. You may also have access to information relating to Nimbuscare as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.
- Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of Nimbuscare may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with Nimbuscare policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.
- Be aware of your responsibilities under the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).
Health & Safety:
- You will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the Nimbuscare Health & Safety Policy, to include:
- Using personal security systems within the workplace according to guidelines.
- Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks.
- Making effective use of training to update your knowledge and skills.
- Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards.
- Reporting potential risks identified.
Equality and Diversity:
- You will support the equality, diversity and rights of customers, carers and colleagues, to include:
- Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Nimbuscare procedures and policies, and current legislation.
- Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues.
- Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Quality:
- You will strive to maintain quality within Nimbuscare, and will:
- Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk.
- Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under
Supervision:
- Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.
- Work within own limitations and experience.
- Be aware of and co-operate with audit.
- Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs.
- Always portray a professional image.
Communication:
- You should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
- Communicate effectively with other team members.
- Communicate effectively with customers and carers.
- Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
This list of duties is not exhaustive
Other:
This job description is neither exhaustive nor exclusive and will be reviewed periodically in conjunction with you. You are required to carry out any duties that may reasonably be requested.
Please see attached job description.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- -Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register
- -Nursing Associate foundation degree qualification
Personal Qualities
Essential
- -Compassionate, empathetic, and patient-centred approach to care.
- -Proactive in problem-solving and continuous improvement.
- -Ability to manage complex patient cases with professionalism and confidence with the support of nursing staff and MDT.
- -Ability to work under pressure and adapt to changing situations.
Skills and Competencies
Essential
- -Venepuncture
- -Sound assessment skills, able to assess, monitor, contribute and implement to patient care
- -Ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- -Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- -Strong organisational and time-management skills.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- -Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register
- -Nursing Associate foundation degree qualification
Personal Qualities
Essential
- -Compassionate, empathetic, and patient-centred approach to care.
- -Proactive in problem-solving and continuous improvement.
- -Ability to manage complex patient cases with professionalism and confidence with the support of nursing staff and MDT.
- -Ability to work under pressure and adapt to changing situations.
Skills and Competencies
Essential
- -Venepuncture
- -Sound assessment skills, able to assess, monitor, contribute and implement to patient care
- -Ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- -Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- -Strong organisational and time-management skills.
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).
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
