Job summary
- Main area
- Community Nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Fixed term: 18 months (Or secondment if internal)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 825-6525253-OPS
- Employer
- Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Mount McKinley, Anchorage Avenue
- Town
- Shrewsbury
- Salary
- £26,530 - £29,114 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/08/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 03/09/2024
Employer heading
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Nurse Associate
NHS AfC: Band 4
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust believes in fairness, equity and above all values diversity in all aspects of its work, as a provider of health services and as an employer of people. We provide visa sponsorship to applicant who require a visa to work in the UK, providing the role you’ve been recruited to meets the requirements set by the Home Office.
From 4 April 2024 overseas workers requiring a general Skilled Worker Visa (such as data analysts, IT and finance professionals, etc) but sponsored by an NHS organisation will need to meet the new salary threshold of £38,700. In addition, applications to the Health and Care Visa route for those occupations paid by NHS bands that are on the immigration salary, a list of skilled jobs which have lower salary requirements, will need to meet the national pay scale for their role or the new minimum salary threshold of £23,200 (whichever is higher). We advise that you check that the role you wish to apply for meets the requirement for sponsorship before applying.
Further guidance on eligible roles can be found here- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/skilled-worker-visa-immigration-salary-list/skilled-worker-visa-immigration-salary-list
https://www.gov.uk/health-care-worker-visa/different-salary-requirements
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Nurse Associate to join the Central Multidisciplinary Team in the provision of Urgent and Planned Care to patients living in the community. The multidisciplinary teams provide nursing and therapy services offering an alternative to hospital admission, supporting timely discharge. We enable our patients to realise their potential independence in their most appropriate place of care.
As a Nurse Associate, you will be supported to develop a broad range of clinical skills to enable you to provide evidence based care. You will receive additional training and clinical support specifically in regard to Continence Care & Assessment and will work with the Continence Nurse to enable timely care to a delegated group of patients. You will need to be qualified to AN level, be registered with the NMC and be able to demonstrate current clinical experience. We are committed to clinical support, CPD & training.
You will need to be able to meet the travel requirements of the post.
Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications are received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.
Main duties of the job
- Provide compassionate, safe and effective care and support to people in a range of care settings.
- Ensure the privacy, dignity and safety of individuals is maintained at all times.
- Monitor the condition and health needs of people within their care on a continual basis in partnership with the members of the MDT team families, and carers.
- To complete nursing risk assessments using recognise risk assessment tools.
- Contribute to the planning of care delivery in association with the Registered Nurse .
- Contribute to ongoing assessment recognising when it is necessary to refer to others for reassessment and action.
- Once passed as competent to administer medicines as directed.
- Demonstrate the ability to recognise changing priorities seeking advice and guidance from the Registered Nurse or other registered care professionals as appropriate.
- Communicate effectively with colleagues, providing clear verbal, digital or written information and instructions when sharing information, delegating or handing over responsibility for care.
- To oversee the care delivered to their designated group of patients by Health Care Assistants. Trainee Nursing Associates and Nursing Students.
- Recognise and report any situations, behaviours or errors that could result in poor care outcomes.
Working for our organisation
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register
- Educated to level 5 Diploma of Higher Education and Foundation degree in nursing associate practice / Nurse Associate Apprenticeship Certificate.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to work effectively as a team player under appropriate supervision, and as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Understanding of the scope of the role of the Nursing Associate in context of the team and the organisation, and how the role contributes to service development.
- Demonstrable experience of working as an Nurse Associate within the NHS or other care setting.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
- Good IT skills including Microsoft Office
- Good organisational skills
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Vicky Hincks
- Job title
- Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07826530768
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