Nursing Associate

Delivery of high quality, compassionate care whilst undertaking specific clinical and care tasks under the direction of a registered nurse or GP Partnerwith 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 organisations 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 organisations 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 perform cervical cytology, administer childhood immunisations, flu vaccinations, ECGs and venepuncture and other relevant clinical tasks as required by the organisation in line with the 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 wound care (ulcer/Doppler etc.) to patients To provide support during minor operations as required To advise 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 To process pathology results as required 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 (e.g., COVID-19 or flu clinics) through advice or direct care To support and deliver health promotion and wellbeing programmes including any opportunistic delivery Maintain a clean, tidy, effective working area Secondary responsibilities In addition to the primary responsibilities, the Nursing Associate may be requested to: Be an accountable professional 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 chaperone There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks. This will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels