Nursing AssociateNHS
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 4 Nursing Associate , to join the West End Primary Care Network (PCN) at the South Westminster Community Mental Health Hub at 190 Vauxhall Bridge Road based in Victoria, Central London. The West End PCN provides care to a diverse group of services users, who experience a range of mental health challenges.
Band 4 Nursing Associates work closely with people who use our Services, their families, friends and carers and play an important contribution in how people experience our services. Band 4 Nursing Associates are expected to:oWork as part of a multi-disciplinary team and be accountable to the registered nurses they work withoBe accountable as professionals registered with the NMC and work to the Code for Nurses, Midwives and Nursing AssociatesoPromote health and prevent ill healthoProvide and monitor careoWork to improve safety and the quality of careAs a Nursing Associate you may be expected to practice any of the skills listed in the NMC Standards of Proficiency skills annexes or be responsible for the care delivered to a number of service users but you will always be supervised by a registered nurse and receive support from the wider multi-disciplinary team. We believe that the best health care is delivered by multi-disciplinary teams working well together and in partnership with other teams and services to provide seamless care.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will be responsible for delivering a high standard of care, including various physical health checks to service users under the care of the South Westminster Community Mental Health Hub.
The post-holder will also be expected to support the wider team to ensure that we can deliver excellent care to our service users.
Job description
Key Responsibilities:
- Undertake clinical tasks (when competent) including venepuncture and ECGs
- Develop understanding of caring for individuals with particular conditions relevant to place of work
- Perform and record physical health clinical observations as required
- To act as champion in physical health in the community teams
- Demonstrate good understanding of the Mental Capacity Act / Deprivation of Liberties and applies principles to everyday practice seeking advice / guidance from the Registered Nurse or registered care professional as required.
- To support the CMHT to carry out physical health checks and interventions
- To work in collaboration with the Physical Health Lead Nurse
- To identify and record physical health care needs within care plans under the direction of the RMN
- To administer medication as agreed within NMC Standards and CNWL Medicines Policy following completion of medication competency test as per policy
- To support the delivery of groups as required
- To actively engage patients as allocated
- To attend and participate in MDT reviews
- To write relevant sections within reports for social and healthcare provision under supervision
- To conduct audits as directed by the Team Manager
- Signposting patients and carers to supportive services
- Promote health and prevent ill health
- Working to the standards set out in the NMC Code for Nurses, Midwives and Nursing Associates
- Recognise issues relating to safeguarding vulnerable children and adults and report any problems or raise concerns to the appropriate registered care professionals (including raising a safeguarding alert)
- Escalating safety concerns (including completing Datix) and by doing so acting as effective advocates for those who use our services
- Supervise, help training and delegate to other members of the team e.g. Health Care Assistants
About us
The West End PCN mental health team is made up of highly motivated and passionate staff with extensive experience and expertise in mental health. The team is friendly, committed and dedicated to continually developing the role of the Nursing Associate.
Central and North West London NHS Trust expects all Band 4 Nursing Associates to act in a way which shows you understand our core values and are willing to put them into practice with service users, their friends, family and carers and also other staff members.
As a Band 4 Nursing Associate we expect you to show COMPASSION, contribute to a caring and kind environment and recognise that what you do and say helps can make the lives of others better
We expect you to RESPECT everyone and acknowledge and welcome people's differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic.
We expect you to EMPOWER others and continually try to provide information, resources and support to help others make their own decisions and meet their own needs.
We expect you to work in PARTNERSHIP and behave in a way that shows that you recognise that commissioners and users of our services are the people who generate and pay for our work.