Nurse Associate

Our GP Practice is looking to recruit a part-time Nurse Associate, to complement our exsisting Nursing Team, the role is based in primary care; applicants will have a knowledge of working within GP Practices and will have varying skills and qualification as detailed in the Job Description in order to fulfil the role.

The Nursing Associate is expected to demonstrate professionalism, effective communication and a commitment to equality, dignity and respect. The role requires the ability to work collaboratively with colleagues, patients, families and carers while contributing to continuous service improvement and maintaining high standards of care within the NHS.

We are a friendly medium sized Training Practice with 8500 patients based in North Liverpool. Our practice team comprises of 7 GPs, 2 Practice Nurses, Assistant Practitioner, 3 Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Clinical Pharmacist, Pharmacist Technician, Assistant Practice Manager, Business Partner and large admin team. We are based in a modern NHS Building with good transportation links to Liverpool City Centre and the wider areas of Liverpool.

Primary key responsibilities

The Nursing Associate is to undertake the following key responsibilities in delivering health services:

• Delivery of high quality, compassionate care whilst undertaking specific clinical andcare tasks under the direction of a registered nurse (or other registered care professional dependent) with a focus on promoting good health and independence
• Toprovide high-quality holistic and person-cantered care to individuals
• Toprovide routine care to patients as required in accordance with clinical base evidence, NICE and the NSF
• Towork as part of the organisations MDT to provide and monitor care, underdirect or indirect supervision
• Toimprove safety and quality of care at every opportunity
• To contribute to the delivery of integrated care
• Towork with the organisations MDT to ensure delivery of nursing associate duties to complement existing workforce
• Towork with a Snr Nurse to take responsibility for developing own clinical competence, leadership and reflective practice skills within the workplace
• Toprovide support and supervision to training nursing associates, healthcare assistants, apprentices and those on learning assignments/placements as required
• Tosupport registered nurses to enable them to be able to focus on the more complex clinical care.
• Todevelop relationships across the MDT to support integration of the role across health and social care including primary care, secondary care and mental health
• Toperform and record clinical observations such as blood pressure, temperature, respirations and pulse
• To provide vaccination procedures, cervical smear procedures, Childrens Immunisations, Annual Long term Condition Reviews, NHS Health Checks, New Patient Medicals and venipuncture and any other relevant clinical tasks as required by the organisation in line with the competencies of the role
• Topromote health and wellbeing to all patients, for example undertaking the NHS health check
• Toadvise patients 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
• Toenhance own performance through continuous professional development, imparting own knowledge and behaviours to meet the needs of the service
• Towork 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
• Toattend 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 (e.g., COVID-19 and Influenza clinics) through advice or direct care
• Tosupport and deliver health promotion and wellbeing programmes including any opportunistic delivery
• Maintain a clean, tidy, effective working area

In addition to the primary responsibilities, the Nursing Associate may be requested to:

• Support delivery of QOF, incentive schemes, QIPP and other quality or cost effectiveness initiatives enhancing service delivery and patient care
• Assist with COVID-19 tasks as required
• Undertake any tasks consistent with the level of the post and the scope of the role, ensuring that work is delivered in a timely and effective manner
• Duties may vary from time to time without changing the general character of the post or the level of responsibility
• To understand practice and departmental policies
• Undertake all mandatory training and induction programmes
• To act as a…