Nursing Associate

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Clinical Responsibilities:

• Provide continuing direct and indirect care to patients across the practice population.
• Provide clinical observations. phlebotomy, flu vaccinations, COVID vaccinations, ECGs, 24 hour ECG & BPs and venepuncture, and other designated clinical tasks as required by the Primary care Network on behalf of member Practices. (Following appropriate training),
• Monitoring and support of the management of patients with long-term conditions / chronic diseases, using a holistic patient centred approach.
• Partake in Member Practices MDT, supporting the co-ordination and management of patients living in Care Home.
• Support patients to improve and maintain their mental and physical health and wellbeing
• Assist with the co-ordination of Infection Control policy and audit.
• Chaperone patients when required
• Support registered nurses to enable them to be able to focus on the more complex clinical care;
• Contribute to the delivery of integrated care
• Promote health and well-being to all patients, for example undertaking the NHS health check, Hypertension reviews, Prediabetes checks.
• 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
• Care for individuals with dementia, mental health conditions, and learning disabilities.
• Support the member practices’ Immunisation programmes as required
• Support the member practices’ Cervical neoplasia programmes as required

Educational:

• Identify personal development and training needs in conjunction with the Line Manager
• Participate in an annual Personal Development Review
• Keep all mandatory training up to date and maintain own portfolio of professional development.
• Provide support and supervision to training nursing associates, healthcare assistants, apprentices, and those on learning assignments/placements as required;

Quality and Audit:

• Work with the PCN MDT to ensure delivery of nursing associate duties complement existing workforce
• Participate in Quality Improvement activities
• Participate fully in practice audit and quality development programmes.

Inter Agency working:

• Communicate proactively and effectively with all MDT colleagues across the PCN, attending and contributing to meetings as required.
• Develop relationships across the MDT to support integration of the role across health and social care including primary care, secondary care, and mental health;

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 staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately
• In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, member practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the Primary care Network and practices within this.
• As a 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 the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the Member practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data

Health & safety:

• The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others’ health, safety and security as defined in the practice Health & Safety policy, the Practice Health & Safety manual, and the Member Practice infection control policy and published procedures. This will include:
• Using personal security systems within the workplace according to Member Practice 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 knowledge and skills
• Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards
• Actively reporting of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised
• Keeping own work areas and general/patient areas generally clean, assisting in the maintenance of standards of cleanliness consistent with the scope of the job holder’s role
• Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum annually)
• Reporting potential risks identified
• Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children

Equality and diversity:

• The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:
• Acting in a way that recognises the importance of people’s rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation
• Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
• Behaving in a manner that is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights

Personal/professional development:

• The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the Primary carer Network as part of this employment, with such training to include:
• Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development
• Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work

Quality:

• The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the Primary Care Network and Member Practices , 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
• Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the team’s performance
• Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients’ needs
• Effectively manage own time, workload and resources

Communication:

• The post-holder should recognize the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
• Communicate effectively with other team members
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers
• Recognize people’s needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly
• Contribution to the implementation of services:

The post-holder will:

• Apply Primary care Network and Member Practice policies, standards and guidance
• Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work
• Participate in audit where appropriate

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register
• Nursing Associate foundation degree qualification
• GCSE Grade A-C in Maths & English or skills level 2 Maths &
• English or equivalent

Experience

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 The Code
• Knowledge of when to seek advice and escalate to the
• appropriate professional for expert help and advice
• Understand requirements for NMC professional Revalidation
• Understanding of the importance of following procedures and
• treatment plans
• Evidence of ongoing CPD and training maintained via NMC
• competence or own training portfolio which is in line or
• transferable to NMC competence.
• Understand the concept of management of patients with
• long-term conditions
• Understand the concept of health promotion strategies
• Wider health economy awareness.
• Awareness of clinical governance issues in primary care
• 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

• Knowledge of public health issues
• Knowledge of NHS Primary Care
• Knowledge of TPP SystmOne clinical system
• Ability to identify determinants on health in the local area
• Knowledge of public health issues in the area

Skills

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 non
• verbal 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.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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

Mersey Internal Audit

Address

Central and West Warrington Primary Care Network

Folly Lane Medical Centre

Warrington

Cheshire

WA50LU

Employer's website

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