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Job role: Nursing Associate
Company name: NHS Jobs
Job Location: United Kingdom
Job Sector: Healthcare
Job reference: A0206-25-0004
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About the Job:
The Nursing Associate is to undertake the following key responsibilities in delivering health services:
- Delivery of high quality, compassionate care while undertaking specific clinical and care tasks under the direction of a nominated individual with a focus on promoting good health and independence
- To provide high-quality holistic and person-centred care to individuals
- To provide routine care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF
- To provide wound care, dressings and other clinical tasks as required
- To work as part of the organisation’s MDT to provide and monitor care, under direct or indirect supervision
- To improve safety and quality of care at every opportunity
- To contribute to the delivery of integrated care
- To work with the organisation’s MDT to ensure delivery of nursing associate duties to complement existing workforce
- To work with a supervisor to take responsibility for developing own clinical competence, leadership and reflective practice skills within the workplace
- To provide support and supervision to training nursing associates, healthcare assistants, apprentices and those on learning assignments/placements as required
- To support registered nurses to enable them to be able to focus on the more complex clinical care
- To develop relationships across the MDT to support integration of the role across health and social care including primary care, secondary care and mental health
- To perform and record clinical observations such as blood pressure, temperature, respirations and pulse
- After undertaking additional training, to provide flu vaccinations, ECGs and venepuncture and other relevant clinical tasks as required by the organisation in line with competencies of the role
- To promote health and wellbeing to all patients, for example undertaking the NHS health check
- To care for individuals with dementia, mental health conditions and learning disabilities
- To provide would care (ulcer/Doppler etc) to patients
- To provide support during minor operations as required
- To advise patient on general healthcare and promote self-management where appropriate, including signposting patients to personalised care colleagues and local community and voluntary sector services
- To communicate proactively and effectively with all MDT colleagues attending and contributing to meetings as required
- To maintain accurate and contemporaneous patient health records ensuring that clinical data is appropriately recorded with SNOMED CT codes
- To enhance own performance through continuous professional development, imparting own knowledge and behaviours to meet the needs of the service
- To work with your line manager to access regular clinical supervision to enable you to deal effectively with the difficult issues that people present
- To contribute to and embrace the spectrum of clinical governance
- To 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
- To contribute to public health campaigns (eg flu clinics) through advice or direct care Maintain a clean, tidy, effective working area
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