Nurse Associate

NURSE ASSOCIATE Please see full JD attached for additional information

REPORTS TO:

Nurse

HOURS:

34-38 hours per week

Job summary:

Working in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct, the post-holder will provide assessment, treatment, screening, health education services and advice to patients. The post-holder will work with reference to practice agreed protocols and guidelines, providing nursing treatments to patients both independently and in participation with nurse colleagues and general practitioners. The post-holder will have the required level of training and competence and will work within any necessary patient group directions where these are available, under the appropriate level of clinical guidance and supervision for the task.

• Management of chronic disease
• Identifying significant abnormalities
• Diagnosis, monitoring and development of individual management plans; agreeing these as appropriate with the patient and other health professionals
• Therapeutic monitoring
• Checking compliance with and adherence to appropriate treatments using a holistic patient-centred approach
• Recognising abnormalities
• Identifying the impact of treatment and implementing or recommending changes as appropriate.
• Wound Care and management
• Assessing routine wounds including trauma
• Assessing [and prescribing] to support good wound management in complex situations (e.g. use of Doppler technique)
• Patient health checks
• Identifying significant abnormalities
• Obtaining appropriate information using a lifestyle questioning approach and identifying appropriate health promotion issues
• Working with patients to develop a management plan where health problems or potential health problems are identified
• Risk assessment
• Recognising issues and gathering sufficient information to refer (e.g. drugs; domestic violence; child protection; vulnerable adults; senior patients; social problems)
• Health screening
• Recognising issues and gathering sufficient information to refer (e.g. womens and mens health, sexual health, older people)
• Undertaking monitoring tasks (e.g. smears) and providing advice as appropriate
• Providing in-depth monitoring and advice as appropriate to the level of the post-holders specialty and working with the patient in deciding on management plans.
• Travel health
• Administering injections and providing guidance in accordance with guidelines
• Identifying problems
• Provision of specialist and evidence-based support to the team.
• Immunisation (adult and child)
• Administering appropriate immunisation autonomously
• Working with patients with more complex immunisation issues.
• First contact
• Working independently or alongside the general practitioner and making decisions/ recommendations as appropriate.
• Treatment Room Duties
• Venepuncture
• Simple dressings
• ECG
• Minor operations
• Assisting the general practitioner and/or undertaking some simple procedures
• Ear care
• Providing routine ear care
• Dealing with more complex problems and prescribing if appropriate.
• Carer Identification
• Being proactive in the identification of Carers
• Mental health
• Communicating with key workers
• Administering appropriate prescribed therapies and monitoring for side effects