Job Introduction
We are looking for a Nurse Associate to join our District Nursing Team in Midsomer Norton!
As a Nurse Associate you will be equipped with the relevant hands-on practical knowledge, skills, and attitudes to effectively provide care to patients in a variety of clinical settings. You will learn a wide range of competencies through the direct supervision of a registered practitioner.
You will be based at The Hollies in Midsomer Norton, you will be joining an extremely friendly, compassionate, and experienced nursing team who are committed to delivering high quality nursing care and where teamwork is at the forefront of everything we do.
There are other Band 4 nurse associates within the team along with Band 5, Band 6 and Band 7 nursing staff based at The Hollies who are always around for support and guidance.
You will work in close partnership with other primary healthcare professionals such as GPs, Community Matrons and other specialist nursing services such Tissue Viability, Heart Failure Nurses and Diabetic Specialist Nurses.
The team is situated on the high-street of Midsomer Norton, with a Sainsbury’s and other local amenities situated nearby. The service also has its own dedicated car park.
Main Responsibility
As a Nurse Associate you will:
- Work in care teams with other professionals, providing practical help by delivering aspects of nursing care to vulnerable and often highly dependent patients.
- Use sound clinical reasoning skills when delivering care and therapy interventions
- Deliver a delegated workload against the needs of patients and service
- Treat all individuals with respect and maintain privacy, dignity and confidentiality
- Commit to personal and professional development
- Organise, prioritise and adjust own workload
- Accurately and effectively report on care undertaken and document changes in condition, maintain records, and ensure that there is feedback to the appropriate or responsible healthcare professional.
The Ideal Candidate
Our ideal candidate will have:
- The required qualifications to be accepted on the academic programme
- A commitment to undertaking any additional studies
- Have a driving license and access to a car for work purposes.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Able to work independently, using own initiative
- Previous experience in a care or health setting
Package Description
As a Nurse Associate, you’ll be part of our valued team at The Hollies, Midsomer Norton.
You will feel valued as a Nurse Associate within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £25,147 - £27,596 Band 4 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- 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.
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