Job summary
A Nursing Associate Role has become available across the Urgent Community Response (UCR) and Frailty Virtual Ward Teams.
This is an exciting opportunity for a candidate to work within an expanding team supporting people being supported to remain in their own home during crisis or periods of illness.
Urgent Community Response and frailty virtual ward sits within the Community Integrated Response Team (CIRT) based at St Catherine's Health Centre and Arrowe Park Hospital, within the Community Response Division.
Main duties of the job
To support the UCR and frailty ward MDT and be delegated tasks from nursing and community paramedic colleagues. To assess and support with treatment and review of acutely unwell patients in people's own environments, including but not exclusively, medications management, wound and pressure care; phlebotomy, catheter care, clinical observations, supporting health care assistants within the team; being part of in service training programmes and supporting audit.
About us
Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by CQC (Dec 2023) with some outstanding areas.
As an aspiring outstanding Trust we have numerous policies and procedures in place which provide standard organisational ways of working, in line with organisational objectives, relevant legislation and requirements. Policies allow for continuity and consistency within the Trust. Employees must abide by and adhere to all Wirral Community NHS Trust's policies, at all times.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please carefully review the attached Person Specification and Job Description before applying for this position.
NOTE: only candidates with a Nursing Associate Foundation Degree and holding an NMC Nursing Associate Registration will be considered for tis post.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please carefully review the attached Person Specification and Job Description before applying for this position.
NOTE: only candidates with a Nursing Associate Foundation Degree and holding an NMC Nursing Associate Registration will be considered for tis post.
Person Specification
Qualifications and professional training
Essential
- Registered Nursing Associate on NMC register
- Nursing Associate Foundation Degree
- GCSE Grade A-C Maths and English or skills level 2 Maths and English or equivalent.
Experience and knowledge
Essential
- 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 Standards of Proficiency for Nursing Associates.
- Understand requirements for NMC professional Revalidation
- Knowledge of a broad range of conditions experienced by patients in community and general practice settings. This will include Long Term Conditions, and common mental illnesses, frailty and palliative and end of life care.
- An understanding of the presentations of multiple pathology, depression and anxiety states and frailty, predominantly in older people.
- Knowledge of when to seek advice and escalate to the appropriate professional for expert help and advice
- Understand the importance of following procedures and treatment plans
- 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
Desirable
- Experience of working within the community setting
Skills and attributes
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 nonverbal 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
- 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.
Personal qualities
Essential
- Empathetic, able to deal with sensitive information
- Access to a car for work purposes
Person Specification
Qualifications and professional training
Essential
- Registered Nursing Associate on NMC register
- Nursing Associate Foundation Degree
- GCSE Grade A-C Maths and English or skills level 2 Maths and English or equivalent.
Experience and knowledge
Essential
- 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 Standards of Proficiency for Nursing Associates.
- Understand requirements for NMC professional Revalidation
- Knowledge of a broad range of conditions experienced by patients in community and general practice settings. This will include Long Term Conditions, and common mental illnesses, frailty and palliative and end of life care.
- An understanding of the presentations of multiple pathology, depression and anxiety states and frailty, predominantly in older people.
- Knowledge of when to seek advice and escalate to the appropriate professional for expert help and advice
- Understand the importance of following procedures and treatment plans
- 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
Desirable
- Experience of working within the community setting
Skills and attributes
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 nonverbal 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
- 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.
Personal qualities
Essential
- Empathetic, able to deal with sensitive information
- Access to a car for work purposes
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).
