Job overview
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust is a Top Employer Award Winner and works in partnership to provide responsive and dependable primary care, mental health, intellectual disability and substance misuse services to the diverse and culturally rich communities we serve.
In our quest to deliver patient-focused quality care we are looking to recruit a highly motivated, innovative and enthusiastic Mental Health Nursing Associate to join our forward thinking, friendly and expanding Health & Justice team at HMP Downview.
By joining our Prisons Health Care Team, you will not only look after the healthcare needs of our patients residing in secure environments, but who also have the opportunity to have a real impact on promoting health and well-being. Our healthcare services work to a 7 day week working model, to ensure our patient's healthcare is managed and maintained to the highest of standards at all times.
Our motto is “Caring NOT Judging” so by working in partnership with the criminal justice system and other agencies, we provide responsive, dependable and high-quality primary care and mental health services to those who may have offended and those at risk of offending in the communities we serve, to improve their health status and to encourage social inclusion.
Why not see what our staff say about working within our award winning teams:
Main duties of the job
1. Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team & be accountable to the registered nurses they work with
2. Be accountable as professionals registered with the NMC & work to the Code for Nurses, Midwives and Nursing Associates
3. Promote health & prevent ill health
4. Provide & monitor care
5. Work to improve safety & the quality of care
As a Nurse 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 & receive support from the wider multi- disciplinary team. We believe that the best health care is delivered by multi-disciplinary teams working well together & in partnership with other teams & services to provide seamless care.
Values
6. As a Nurse Associate we expect you to show COMPASSION, contribute to a caring and kind environment & recognise that what you do & say helps can make the lives of others better.
7. We expect you to RESPECT everyone & acknowledge & welcome people’s differences rather than ignore them or see them as problematic.
8. We expect you to EMPOWER others & continually try to provide information, resources & support to help others make their own decisions & meet their own needs.
9. We expect you to work in PARTNERSHIP & behave in a way that shows that you recognise that commissioners & users of our services are the people who generate & pay for our work.
Working for our organisation
Along with the fully established benefits such as Monthly supervision; Annual personal development plans/appraisals; Support and guidance with Revalidation; Hidden Gem and annual award ceremonies.We are also able to offer access to a full range of internal and external training opportunities across our services.
Our Health and Justice healthcare services present unique and diverse learning, development, and leadership opportunities for nurses, where you will have the potential to make a significant difference to the lives of adults, children and young people who often experience a wide range of health inequalities.
We have a clinical leadership career pathway in place to ensure you feel supported and valued via our career pathway programme that facilitates lifelong learning and development enabling you to progress within you career within Health & Justice.
We will support you to ensure you develop your clinical and leadership skills this includes:
10. Induction programme
11. Career coaching
12. Clinical supervision
13. Reflective Practice
14. Ongoing support from professional nurse advocates
15. NHS Leadership Academy leadership course
16. Bespoke health and justice clinical competencies
17. External training courses in enhanced and advanced practice
All our sites in Surrey offer free use of the onsite leisure facilities and free parking for staff.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
The key responsibilities of a Nursing Associate in Central and North West London NHS Trust show how you can help the Trust deliver safe, effective services and providing patients and families with a positive experience.
You will work as part of a multi-professional team and will be expected to:
18. Be accountable for your practice to a registered nurse
19. Participate in regular supervision with that registered nurse
20. Supervise, help training and delegate to other members of the team e.g. Health Care Assistants
21. Participate in team meetings and help develop the team
22. Contributing to creating and maintaining a high performing team by: communicating well with all members of the team understanding how your role helps the team achieve its objective understanding the roles of different team members and how they help the team achieve its’ objectives using supervision and team meetings to reflect on your own practice regularly
23. Develop skills in relation to coaching/teaching individuals/carers/other staff
24. Engage in reflective practice including management of self and reflection on own reactions, asking questions and reflecting on answers given
Work to improve safety and the quality of care:
As a Nursing Associate you will contribute to the provision of safe and high quality services by:
25. Working to the standards set out in the NMC Code for Nurses, Midwives and Nursing Associates
26. 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)
27. Escalating safety concerns (including completing Datix) and by doing so acting as effective advocates for those who use our services
28. Maintaining your competences and proficiencies in all the required areas for your role
29. Maintaining compliance with your mandatory training requirements
30. Working to the limit of your role but being clear not to work beyond your remit or scope of competency
31. Understanding how you are accountable to registered nurses
32. Identifying areas where improvements in safety or quality can be made and working closely with others to improve services
33. Being open and transparent
34. Maintaining accurate, legible, timely and comprehensive records
35. Assist in the assessment of and contribute to the management of risk across several areas within the environment where care is being administered
Provide and monitor care:
Nursing Associates have a set of skills which enables you to provide and monitor care across most health and social care settings. You will be expected to :
36. Develop understanding of all elements of the nursing process and be able to assist the registered nurse in the on-going assessment, planning, management and evaluation of care.
37. Assist in the delivery of complex care as prescribed by the registered nurse
38. Contribute to the assessment of care
39. Working with patients and registered nurses to develop and implement care plans within the scope of your competence
40. Providing skilled, evidence based care which adheres to agreed policies and procedures
41. Take responsibility for monitoring and evaluation of care
42. Ensure the privacy, dignity and safety of individuals is maintained at all times
43. Demonstrate the ability to recognise changing priorities seeking advice and guidance from the Registered Nurse or other registered care professionals as appropriate
44. Report back and share information with the registered nurses on the condition, behaviour, activity and responses of individuals
45. Recognise deterioration in patients and escalate concerns appropriately
46. Demonstrate good understanding of principles of consent and ensure valid consent is obtained prior to undertaking nursing and care procedures
47. Act as patient advocates in the multi-disciplinary team.
48. Referring to other teams or services as appropriate.
49. Develop a working knowledge of other providers’ resources and referral systems to ensure individual’s needs are met, within parameters of practice
Promote health and prevent ill health:
50. Working in partnership with patients and their families and carers
51. Acting as a role model for health care assistants and registered staff in working closely with people using our services
52. Gaining consent and, as far as possible, involving people in all decision making
53. Signposting patients and carers to supportive services
54. Reassuring people by being professional, responsive, knowledgeable and confident
55. Escalating complaints or concerns effectively and quickly in line with the Trust polic
Vaccination
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
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58. Our Agenda for Change employment contracts are subject to a contractual 13 week probationary period.