Registered Nursing Associate

Job summary

Are you a motivated and compassionate Nurse Associate looking to make a meaningful impact on the physical health of people living with severe mental health difficulties? We are seeking enthusiastic Band 4 Registered Nurse Associates to join our innovative SHAPE (Supporting Health and Promoting Exercise) service.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a service dedicated to delivering goldstandard physical health assessments, personalised interventions, and proactive health promotion. You will play a key role in reducing health inequalities and improving longterm outcomes for our patients:

Delivering highquality physical health checks and tailored interventions.

Supporting patients to engage in weekly wellbeing sessions.

Encouraging participation in accessible activities and active lifestyleenhancing programmes.

Providing expert signposting and health education to empower patients in their recovery.

Working collaboratively across Trust sites, community settings, and in patients homes.

Hours: MondayFriday, 9am5pm

Travel: Across Herefordshire & Worcestershire as part of community delivery. Please note that this role requires regular travel with equipment to multiple and rural locations often with infrequent or no public transport.

Main duties of the job

Responsibility for arranging and providing physical health checks for patients with a serious mental illness.

Reviewing and evaluating physical health and wellbeing care plans identifying, organising and signposting to other resources as appropriate.

Providing assessments/interventions/activities within your scope of practice and level of responsibility.

Completing relevant paper and electronic documentation in line with the associate practitioner role and local processes, in a timely and effective manner.

Provide information, advice and signposting to promote good physical health and wellbeing e.g. Smoking cessation, healthy diet, exercise, alcohol consumption, employment support etc.

Encouraging patients to access suitable follow up monitoring and interventions for any physical health concerns.

Escalating any physical health concerns to appropriate clinical staff including GPs.

Supporting the delivery of a group health and exercise programme for these patients alongside other members of the team.

Working flexibly to provide the service delivery need across Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Working with external stakeholders, signposting to supportive services particularly in the VCSE sector.

About us

At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites.

We will support you to thrive; offer flexible working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities.

What we offer;

• 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
• Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours
• Flexible and agile working opportunities
• Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support
• Wide range of supportive staff networks
• Health and wellbeing opportunities

If you would like to know more, please visit our website.

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Job responsibilities

For full details of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the job description and person specification attached.

Person specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in teams under appropriate supervision as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Experience in prioritising own workload.
• Experience in working without direct supervision.

Desirable

• Previous experience as a Healthcare Support Worker involved in direct patient care in a care environment.
• Experience of dealing with the public in person and on the phone.
• Experience in carrying out assigned duties/assisting qualified staff after training.
• Experience in supervising others.
• Insight into how to evaluate own strengths and development needs, seeking advice where appropriate.
• Experience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive information.

Qualifications

Essential

• Foundation Degree Nursing Associate qualification.
• NMC Nursing Associate registration.
• GCSE English (grade A-C) or equivalent.
• GCSE Maths (grade A-C) or equivalent.
• I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.

Desirable

• IT Qualifications.
• CAVA or Assessors qualifications.

Knowledge

Essential

• Understanding of the scope of the role of the Nursing Associate in context of the nursing and interdisciplinary team and the organisation, and how the role may contribute to service development.
• Understands and acts in line with NMC professional standards for practice contained within The Code.
• Knowledge of when to seek advice and escalate to the appropriate professional for expert help and advice.
• Understands requirements for NMC professional Revalidation.
• Understanding of the importance of following procedures and treatment plans.

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Ability to challenge poor behaviour.
• Role modelling good behaviour.
• A positive attitude and able to act on feedback.
• Ability to praise and be supportive to others.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English in both verbal and written formats.
• Computer literate with applications such as Word/
• Microsoft Office including email.
• Able to support and reassure patients/carers in distress.
• Ability to take part in reflective practice and clinical supervision activities.
• Ability to organise and prioritise own delegated workload.
• Ability to deal with non-routine and unpredictable nature of the workload and individual patient contact.
• Ability to communicate effectively (written, verbal and non-verbal communication) with patients/ relatives and carers and all members of the multi-disciplinary team.
• Ability to develop effective and appropriate relationships with people, their families, carers and colleagues.
• Ability to support, supervise, assess and act as a role model to nursing associate students, other learners and health care support workers as required within the clinical setting.

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Able to travel for the role.
• Able to carry out the physical requirements of the role.