Nursing Associate - ACHT - Aylesbury

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a part 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 nursing activities. These include admission prevention, facilitating discharges from hospital and end of life care. It will involve amongst other tasks 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.

Job description

For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.

If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.

If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on bht.recruitment@nhs.net quoting the vacancy reference number.

Person specification

EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TR

Essential

• Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register
• Nursing Associate foundation degree qualification
• GCSE Grade A-C/Level 4-9 in Maths & English or skills functional level 2 Maths & English or equivalent

EXPERIENCE

Essential

• 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

Essential

• 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 nonroutine 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.

Understand requirements for NMC professional Revalidation

Understanding of the importance of following procedures and treatment plans

Knowledge & Expertise

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

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