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Assistant Practitioner

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Job Introduction

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Assistant Practitioner/Nurse Associate to join us at our inpatient units.

As an Assistant Practitioner/Nurse Associate you will deliver evidence based advanced clinical practice skills to ensure the appropriate management of patient’s needs, supported by a registered clinician.

We offer various shift patterns (such as 7am – 7.30pm or 7pm - 7.30am) with options for short or long shifts dependent on the needs of the individual and the needs of the service. Shifts are 7 days a week with up to 1 in 3 weekends and bank holidays. Shifts work on a rota basis with internal rotation to nights.

Main Responsibility

As an Assistant Practitioner/Nurse Associate you will work under minimal supervision and undertake tasks and duties delegated by the team lead. You will have timely recognition of deteriorating patients, appropriate response, escalation & documentation.

You will be supported by a team of Band 6 & 5 Nurses, Support Workers, Administrators and a Ward Manager. We are focused on fostering development for our team members offering opportunities to develop and gain experience in areas that interest you most. We also have a newly recruited Practice Development lead.

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate will:

  • Be looking to study or is currently studying for the Nurse Assosciate/Assistant Practitioner Programme
  • Have experience of working within a Health and Social Care environment
  • Experienced in the use of work-related equipment, aids and devices e.g.: blood pressure machines, pulse oximetry; anti-coagulation monitoring, blood glucose testing, observation.
  • Experience of medication administration will be encouraged for Nurse associate colleagues.

We are open to candidates with experience previously in Acute or Community Hospital background

We offer apprenticeships in Nursing as well as the Associate Practitioner Programme.

Secondment from other organisations from BSW would also be considered.

Package Description

As a Assistant Practitioner, you’ll be part of our valued team at St. Martin's Hospital.

You will feel valued as an Assistant Practitioner within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

  • A salary of £24,000 - £26,500 with group pension
  • Free tea and coffee at your base location
  • Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
  • Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
  • Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
  • Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
  • An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
  • The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission.

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy. 

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