Qualified Nurse AssociateNHS
Job summary
Are you a compassionate and motivated Registered Nursing Associate looking to join a friendly and supportive GP practice team on the beautiful South Coast?
Southbourne Surgery is seeking an enthusiastic Nursing Associate to become an integral member of our welcoming and experienced clinical team. This is an exciting opportunity to work within a progressive, patient-focused practice where teamwork, professional development and high-quality patient care are at the heart of everything we do.
Located in the coastal village of Southbourne, near Chichester, our practice benefits from a fantastic location with excellent transport links, beautiful countryside and coastline nearby, and a positive working environment where staff are valued and supported.
Please be aware that subject to the number and quality of applications received we may choose to close the advert earlier than the advertised date.
Main duties of the job
As a Nursing Associate, you will work closely with our registered nurses, GPs and wider multidisciplinary team to provide high-quality, person-centred care to our patients. You will support the delivery of a broad range of nursing services, helping patients to maintain their health and wellbeing while enabling registered nurses to focus on more complex clinical care.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Delivering high-quality clinical care under the direction of registered nurses and GPs
- Undertaking wound care and dressings
- Performing clinical observations including blood pressure, pulse, temperature and respiration monitoring
- Venepuncture, ECGs and vaccinations (following appropriate training and competency assessment)
- Supporting long-term condition monitoring and health promotion initiatives
- Contributing to immunisation, screening and public health programmes
- Assisting with minor surgical procedures
- Maintaining accurate clinical records and coding
- Working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to deliver excellent patient outcomes
Job description
The following are the core responsibilities of the Nursing Associate in delivering health services:
- Deliver high quality, compassionate care while undertaking specific clinical and care tasks under the direction of a registered nurse (or other registered care professional) with a focus on promoting good health and independence
- Provide high-quality holistic and person-centred care to individuals
- Provide routine care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF
- Provide wound care, dressings and other clinical tasks as required
- Work as part of the MDT to provide and monitor care, under direct or indirect supervision and ensure delivery of nursing associate duties
- Improve the safety and quality of care at every opportunity
- Contribute to the delivery of integrated care
- Work with a supervisor to take responsibility for developing own clinical competence, leadership and reflective practice skills within the workplace and enable you to deal effectively with the difficult issues that people present
- Provide support and supervision to training nursing associates, healthcare assistants, apprentices and those on learning assignments/placements as required
- Support registered nurses to enable them to be able to focus on the more complex clinical care
- Develop relationships across the MDT to support the integration of the role across health and social care including primary care, secondary care and mental health
- Maintain accurate and contemporaneous patient health records ensuring that clinical data is appropriately recorded with SNOMED codes
- Perform and record clinical observations such as blood pressure, temperature, respirations and pulse including appropriate coding
- After undertaking additional training, provide flu vaccinations, ECGs and venepuncture and other relevant clinical tasks as required and in line with the competencies of the role
- Promote health and wellbeing to all patients, for example undertaking the NHS health check
- Provide wound care (ulcer/Doppler etc.) to patients
- Provide support during minor operations as required
- 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
- Communicate proactively and effectively with all MDT colleagues, attending and contributing to meetings as required
- Be aware of duties and responsibilities regarding current legislation and adhere to practice policies and procedures on Safeguarding Adults and Safeguarding Children
- Process pathology results as required
- Enhance own performance through continuous professional development, imparting own knowledge and behaviours to meet the needs of the service
- Contribute to and embrace the spectrum of clinical governance
- 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
- Contribute towards public health and screening programmes, including immunisations and vaccinations
- Support and deliver health promotion and wellbeing programmes including any opportunistic delivery
- Maintain a clean, tidy, effective working area
- Be an integral part of the general practice team, working in each practice and across the PCN, as well as supporting the wider multi-disciplinary team
- Recognise boundaries of practice and know when and to whom patients should be referred
- Demonstrate initiative and be creative in finding solutions to problems
- Support in the management of patient complaints when requested to do so and participate in the identification of any necessary learning brought about through incidents and near-miss events
- Undertake all mandatory training and induction programme
There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks, this will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels
About us
What We Offer
- A supportive and welcoming team environment
- Opportunities for ongoing professional development and training
- Regular clinical supervision and support
- A varied and rewarding role within General Practice
- The opportunity to make a real difference to patients and the local community
- Working in an attractive South Coast location close to Chichester and the coast