An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time Nursing Associate to join the Aylesbury Adult Community Healthcare Team.
The successful candidate will be part of the friendly and proactive community team, working in collaboration to provide a high standard of nursing care in the community.
The role will be supporting the Community Nurses in a wide range of nursing activities. These include admission prevention, facilitating discharges from hospital and end of life care. It will involve holistic patient assessment, medication administration, wound and pressure area care, and catheter management.
We offer a preceptorship programme for newly qualified nursing associates, an extensive orientation programme, with the support of the advanced community practitioners and the practice development team. Training and support will be given to achieve your competencies.
Main duties of the job
* Provide compassionate, safe and effective care and support to people in a range of care settings.
* Contribute to ongoing assessment of patients, recognising when it is necessary to refer and escalate to a Registered Nurse for reassessment.
* Monitor the condition and health needs of people within their care on a continual basis in partnership with people, families and carers.
* Record all care delivered appropriately and contemporaneously. Documentation must be clear, concise and legible. Any documentation must also be signed and dated.
* Communicate effectively with colleagues, providing clear verbal, digital or written information and instructions when sharing information, delegating or handing over responsibility for care.
* Communicate effectively with patients when delivering care, providing advice where appropriate.
* Recognise and report any situations, behaviours or errors that could result in poor care outcomes.
* Understand, encourage and complete the necessary paperwork to enable discharge/transfers in a safe and timely manner.
Person Specification
EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
* Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register.
* GCSE Grade A-C/Level 4-9 in Maths & English or skills functional level 2 Maths & English or equivalent.
EXPERIENCE
* Newly qualified accepted.
* Minimum 2 years' experience in health care.
* Experience of working in teams under appropriate supervision as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
* Experience in the community.
SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE
* 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 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 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.
* 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.
* Understanding of the importance of following procedures and treatment plans.
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.
£26,530 to £29,114 a year per annum pro rata.
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