Nursing Associate
Job Description
Job summary
Interview 20.04.2025
Up to 37.5 hours per week.
This role is in the community for housebound individuals & care homes, as part of the Care Home Service
The role requires positivity and excellent communication, leadership, and caseload management abilities. You will need to demonstrate integrity and initiative, sound clinical knowledge with evidenced based practice & the ability to support the team, approaching your work in a coordinated way
We work integrated with primary care, adult social care, therapists, urgent & intermediate care services alongside our specialist services informing our ageing well MDTs which facilitates shaping our future to deliver great quality care.
Striving to maximise wellbeing, improve health outcomes & patient experience, & support people to remain at home. Through expert advice & clinical support & treatment, promoting the optimum quality of life
Whilst providing an effective and efficient service delivery, utilising health promotion, wound, medication, and continence management
If you have an interest in community nursing, preventing hospital admissions, and caring for people with complex long-term disease, through to the last stages of their life, then please apply
We provide opportunity for continued learning and career progression, if this ignited your interest we would like to hear from you.
This role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route.
All LW staff are expected to be able and willing to work across a 7 day service.
Main duties of the job
To be a Nurse Associate your role is vital in terms of coordinating peoples care through holistic evidence-based best practice in accordance with National and Organisational approved polices/procedures.
You will be required to be an autonomous practitioner and a role model. Supporting the Community Registered Nurses and Sister/Charge Nurse in their absence.
Manage sensitive issues and overcome obstacles in communication.
You be required to undertake a robust induction, allocated a mentor to support your learning to develop in your role.
We offer training in line with the required competencies for you to build on your knowledge, experience, and skills. You will be expected to undertake continued learning with accessibility to accredited courses.
You will need to provide a high standard of nursing care within their scope of practice as delegated by the Senior Nurse on duty.
To work under the indirect supervision of a Registered Nurse and continue to develop and undertake a range of delegated tasks independently.
Have sound knowledge and judgement providing evidence-based medicine and wound management. Pressure ulcer prevention and continence management, palliative, and end of life care.
Have a full driving licence and the ability to travel across Plymouth.
Please note that we may close the job advertisement earlier than the specified deadline if a high number of applications are submitted. Therefore, we recommend you submit your application at the earliest opportunity.
About us
Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise delivering integrated health and social care services across Plymouth, South Hams, and West Devon, with specialist services in parts of Devon and Cornwall. Our teams work in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, and health hubs.
As an organisation with a strong social conscience we are guided by our values, kindness, respect, inclusivity, ambition, responsibility, and collaboration. We focus on transforming services to ensure sustainability, while empowering staff and those we serve.
We involve the people we care for, along with their families and carers, in shaping the care they receive, striving to deliver the right care at the right time and place. Centering our work on individual needs helps people lead healthy, independent lives.
We prioritise employees' development, offering protected CPD time, training pathways, leadership programs, and funding for qualifications like the Care Certificate and Nurse Training Scholarships. Our induction and preceptorship programs ensure a smooth transition into our organisation.
Livewell Southwest values diversity and encourages applications from all sections of the community, including those with armed forces experience, lived experience of mental health, neuro-diverse conditions and learning disabilities. If you need assistance or reasonable adjustments during the application process, contact the Recruiting Manager listed in the job advert.
Job responsibilities
Job Purpose
- The Nursing Associate will work as part of a team, delivering health and social care that focuses on the holistic needs of service users.
- They will carry out specific clinical tasks and responsibilities as delegated by registered practitioners
Job Summary
- Manage a defined group of patients under the indirect supervision of a Registered Nurse, using evidence based/client centred principles to undertake a range of delegated tasks independently: assess, plan, implement, evaluate interventions and contribute to the service provision.
- To take responsibility for planned/defined tasks as required.
- To plan and undertake clinical tasks guided by standard operating procedures and protocols.
- To delegate work to support worker staff as required.
- To supervise and line manage band 2/3 staff and undertake the ongoing supervision of the routine work of others.
- Take responsibility for the training of others and may be required to deliver training
Tasks:
- To be responsible for the comprehensive assessment, planning, treatment and evaluation of a group of patients under the appropriate delegation from a registered practitioner and in close liaison with patient/carer.
- To give compassionate, holistic evidence based practice to patients in the Community in line with national and organisational approved policies / procedures and individual care plans.
- Undertakes delegated clinical skills within their role having once undertaken relevant training, deemed competent and adhere to standard operating procedures.
- Monitor the condition and health needs of people within their care on a continual basis in partnership with people, families, and the Multidisciplinary Team
- To demonstrate a working knowledge and understanding of conditions relevant to the clinical area.
- Observes any changes in the patient's condition, manages these changes in line with scope and competence, reporting findings to the most appropriate clinician in a timely manner. In the event of a change in patient status, is able to safely decide whether to proceed with treatment (including medicines administration) and/or seeks support from a registered nurse to decide.
- Safely uses a range of non invasive and invasive interventions whether therapeutic, technological or pharmacological, within the defined scope of the role
- Implements the goal planning process and outcome measures used in the clinical area to review progress of the patient.
- Administers medication within scope of practice, competency and as delegated by the registered nurse.
- Support people to improve and maintain their mental, physical, behavioural health and wellbeing
- To educate patients and carers regarding the impact of cognitive, perceptual and physical deficits on patient's safety and independence
- active involvement in the prevention of and protection against disease and ill health
- To plan, organise and lead when delegated both formal and informal treatments and health education activities for both patients and carers.
- contribute to ongoing assessment recognising when it is necessary to refer to others for reassessment
- Communicate effectively with colleagues, providing clear verbal, digital or written information and instructions
- recognise and report any situations, behaviours or errors that could result in poor care outcomes
- Prioritise the day to day management of own caseload/ workload delegating activities to junior staff as appropriate
- engage in public health, community development, and in the reduction of health inequalities and increased self-management
- To act as the patient's advocate and, by providing information and support, facilitate the patient's own choices in conjunction with carers and other agencies where relevant.
- To undertake specifically identified administrative and clerical tasks associated with patient care which facilitate the efficient running of the ward/department.
Service specific tasks and responsibilities.
This should align with the service essential skills framework and relevant clinical competencies which can be located via the link below : http://pchnet.derriford.phnt.swest.nhs.uk/StaffCentral/Training/Competencies.aspx
- Assessment and holistic patient centred care
- Wound Care including pressure ulcer management
- Bowel/ continence management
- Medicines management
- Ear syringing
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