Nursing Associate

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Nursing Associate works alongside a team within general practice. The post holder will be an integral part of the general practice team, working as part of Collingwood Health Group, you may be required to work at any of our branch sites.

The nursing associates principal task is to support registered nurses to enable them to be able to focus on the more complex clinical care of patients.

Primary Responsibilities include:

Delivery of high quality, compassionate care whilst undertaking specific clinical and care tasks under the direction of a registered nurse (or other registered care professional dependent) with a focus on promoting good health and independence

To provide high-quality holistic and person-centred care to individuals

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

To provide wound care, dressings and other clinical tasks as required

To work as part of the organisations MDT to provide and monitor care, under direct or indirect supervision.

To improve safety and quality of care at every opportunity.

To contribute to the delivery of integrated care.

To work with the organisations MDT to ensure delivery of nursing associate duties to complement existing workforce.

To work with a supervisor to take responsibility for developing own clinical competence, leadership and reflective practice skills within the workplace.

To provide support and supervision to training nursing associates, healthcare assistants, apprentices and those on learning assignments/placements as required.

To support registered nurses to enable them to be able to focus on the more complex clinical care.

To develop relationships across the MDT to support integration of the role across health and social care including primary care, secondary care and mental health.

To perform and record clinical observations such as blood pressure, temperature, respirations, and pulse.

After undertaking additional training, to provide flu vaccinations, ECGs and venepuncture and other relevant clinical tasks as required by the organisation in line with the competencies of the role.

To promote health and wellbeing to all patients, for example undertaking the NHS health check.

To care for individuals with dementia, mental health conditions and learning disabilities and to process the LD recall system and follow up patients who don't attend.

To provide wound care (ulcer/Doppler etc.) to patients.

To provide support during minor operations as required.

To 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.

To communicate proactively and effectively with all MDT colleagues attending and contributing to meetings as required.

To maintain accurate and contemporaneous patient health records ensuring that clinical data is appropriately recorded with SNOMED CT codes.

To process pathology results as required.

To enhance own performance through continuous professional development, imparting own knowledge and behaviours to meet the needs of the service.

To work with your line manager to access regular clinical supervision to enable you to deal effectively with the difficult issues that people present.

To contribute to and embrace the spectrum of clinical governance.

To attend a formal appraisal with your manager at least every 12 months. Once a performance/training objective has been set, progress will be reviewed on a regular basis so that new objectives can be agreed.

To contribute to public health campaigns (e.g., COVID-19 or flu clinics) through advice or direct care.

To support and deliver health promotion and wellbeing programmes including any opportunistic delivery.

Maintain a clean, tidy, effective working area.

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.
• Experience in Safeguarding polices and processes

Desirable

• Experience of working in a general practice setting

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC Register
• GCSE Mathematics and English

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

Collingwood Health Group

Address

Collingwood Surgery

Hawkeys Lane

North Shields

Tyne And Wear

NE29 0SF

Employer's website

https://collingwoodsurgery.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)