Nursing Associate Outpatients, WRH

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

The closing date is 10 October 2024

Job summary

We are looking for a highly motivated Nurse Associate who is passionate about delivering high standards of nursing care to ensure a positive patient experience. They will need to have excellent communication skills, relevant post registration experience, Mentorship qualification or equivalent and ideally some leadership experience.

There are a range of specialties catered for in our OPD's, such as Gynaecology, Surgery, Orthopaedics, Renal, Dermatology and Cardiology.

Main duties of the job

You will provide support and assistance to Registered Staff and more junior colleagues as an important member team and under supervision perform a broad range of activities and assigned tasks as required by our clients individualised care plans.

About us

Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Our objectives are simple:

Best services for local people
Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
Best use of resources
Best people

Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

Date posted

26 September 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£26,530 to £29,114 a year

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

C9365-24-1123

Job locations

Charles Hastings Way

Worcester

Worcestershire

WR5 1DD

Job description

Job responsibilities

To work according to the NMC Code and relevant professional guidelines and frameworks key worker for a defined group of patients and take responsibility for:

The assessment of care and health education needs.

The development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care including discharge planning for each patient.

To demonstrate experience and skills in:

Clinical Practice

Facilitation and teaching

To ensure effective communication with patients, relatives, carers and the multidisciplinary team.

To provide supervision, support and education to junior staff, unqualified staff and students.

Develop, lead and manage a patient centred nursing service delivered by professional staff ensuring the highest possible standards of care

To manage and develop new clinics/ lists and staff working within the area.