Nursing Associate Job Rushden area,England UK,Healthcare

Main duties of the job

Deliver high quality, compassionate care while undertaking specific clinical and care tasks under the direction of a registered nurse (or other registered care professional) with a focus on promoting good health and independence

Provide high-quality holistic and person-centred care to individuals

Provide routine care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF

Provide wound care, dressings and other clinical tasks as required

Work as part of the MDT to provide and monitor care, under direct or indirect supervision and ensure delivery of nursing associate duties

Improve the safety and quality of care at every opportunity

Contribute to the delivery of integrated care

Work with Lead/Deputy Lead Practice Nurse to take responsibility for developing own clinical competence, leadership and reflective practice skills within the workplace and enable you to deal effectively with the difficult issues that people present

Provide support and supervision to training nursing associates, healthcare assistants, apprentices and those on learning assignments/placements as required

Support registered nurses to enable them to be able to focus on the more complex clinical care

Develop relationships across the MDT to support the integration of the role across health and social care including primary care, secondary care and mental health

Maintain accurate and contemporaneous patient health records ensuring that clinical data is appropriately recorded with SNOMED codes

Perform and record clinical observations such as blood pressure, temperature, respirations and pulse including appropriate coding

After undertaking additional training, provide flu vaccinations, ECGs and venepuncture and other relevant clinical tasks as required and in line with the competencies of the role

Promote health and wellbeing to all patients, for example undertaking the NHS health check

Provide wound care (ulcer/Doppler etc.) to patients

Provide support during minor operations as required

Person Specification Experience

Working in primary care

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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