Band 4 Nurse Associate

at  HCRG Care Group

Job Introduction
We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 4 Qualified Nurse Associate to come and join our Malmesbury Community Team at Wiltshire Health and Care. Community Teams within Wiltshire Health & Care provide high quality, complex care in the community setting, which includes caring for some very vulnerable people, often in challenging environments. Wiltshire Health & Care recognises that we need to deliver care closer to home, with the resources available, and be able to meet the needs of the local population. So, if you are passionate about patient-centred care and maintaining people’s health and independence, you are committed to make a difference to people lives and reduce the effects of ill health and disability, whilst maximising peoples potential for independence, then this post is for you. You will be expected to work closely with general practices, adult social care, local hospitals and other statutory and non-statutory services to meet the needs of the community, so excellent communication skills are essential for this role.
Experience in front line NHS community patient care is not essential as we are keen to attract new graduates as well as experienced Nurse Associates, but evidence of up-to-date clinical professional development is necessary. The role is satisfying and rewarding, and we are looking for enthusiastic, motivated, and hardworking individuals who can work flexibly and efficiently. We are looking for a friendly, caring, motivated person to join our active, professional, and dynamic team.
The aim of the role is to care for people in their own home holistically, so they are empowered to control their health and recovery journey. You will also be expected to support patients with long term conditions and end-of-life care.
Malmesbury Community Team is a busy team caring for patients registered with a Malmesbury GP, you will have the opportunity to work alongside other members of the Multidisciplinary Team such as Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Assistant Practitioners, and other Specialist’s. Our Shift patterns are 7-3, 8.30-4.30, 10-6 and 2-10pm and you would work approximately every 4th weekend however flexible working may be available.
We provide a huge amount of clinical skills training and potential further university courses when you have achieved all the skills necessary for your current role.
Main Responsibilities

This list is intended to summarise the key responsibilities and is not intended to cover every task that may be required of the role: -

• To adhere to organisational policy and procedures.
• Commitment to personal and professional development
• To treat all individuals with respect and maintain privacy, dignity and confidentiality at all times.
• Responsible for delivering a delegated workload against the needs of patients and service requirement
• Able to manage own time effectively
• Plans and organise tasks and activities to be completed within agreed timescales
• Organise, prioritise and adjust own workload in relation to patient care.
• To work in care teams with other professionals, providing practical help to registered practitioners by delivering delegated aspects of nursing care to vulnerable and often highly dependent patients with a range of illnesses.
• To use sound clinical reasoning skills when delivering care and therapy interventions in line with goals agreed with the individual and set by a registered health professional, this would only be expected following appropriate training or when competency reached.
• To be able to accurately and effectively report on care undertaken and document changes in condition, maintain accurate and contemporaneous records, in hand-written or electronic format and ensure that there is feedback to the appropriate or responsible registered healthcare professional.
• To establish good therapeutic relationships with individuals and be able to communicate effectively in order to overcome barriers to understanding when treating individuals who may have physical or mental health issues or learning difficulties that affect their ability to communicate, understand or reason.
• To assist in the maintenance, cleaning and storage of equipment.
• To attend team meetings and appropriate education and training to ensure continuing professional development.
• To actively participate in setting personal objectives through appraisal and clinical supervision.
• To participate in active rotation to support the key objectives of course delivery
• To follow Medicines management and administration standard operating procedures for the organization and follow policy for safe and effective administration and optimization of medicines. This should be in accordance with NMC standards of proficiency for Nursing Associates

The Ideal Candidate

• Registered as a Nurse Associate with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) • Car driver
• Excellent communication skills.
• Able to work independently, using own initiative and knowing when to seek advice.

About The Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website’s privacy policy.
Package Description
As a Nurse Associate, you’ll be part of our valued team at our Malmesbury Community Team at Malmesbury Primary Care Centre.

You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Salary of £26,530 to £29,114 with group pension
• Free tea and coffee at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

• To adhere to organisational policy and procedures.
• Commitment to personal and professional development
• To treat all individuals with respect and maintain privacy, dignity and confidentiality at all times.
• Responsible for delivering a delegated workload against the needs of patients and service requirement
• Able to manage own time effectively
• Plans and organise tasks and activities to be completed within agreed timescales
• Organise, prioritise and adjust own workload in relation to patient care.
• To work in care teams with other professionals, providing practical help to registered practitioners by delivering delegated aspects of nursing care to vulnerable and often highly dependent patients with a range of illnesses.
• To use sound clinical reasoning skills when delivering care and therapy interventions in line with goals agreed with the individual and set by a registered health professional, this would only be expected following appropriate training or when competency reached.
• To be able to accurately and effectively report on care undertaken and document changes in condition, maintain accurate and contemporaneous records, in hand-written or electronic format and ensure that there is feedback to the appropriate or responsible registered healthcare professional.
• To establish good therapeutic relationships with individuals and be able to communicate effectively in order to overcome barriers to understanding when treating individuals who may have physical or mental health issues or learning difficulties that affect their ability to communicate, understand or reason.
• To assist in the maintenance, cleaning and storage of equipment.
• To attend team meetings and appropriate education and training to ensure continuing professional development.
• To actively participate in setting personal objectives through appraisal and clinical supervision.
• To participate in active rotation to support the key objectives of course delivery
• To follow Medicines management and administration standard operating procedures for the organization and follow policy for safe and effective administration and optimization of medicines. This should be in accordance with NMC standards of proficiency for Nursing Associate