Nursing Associate

at  Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Children’s Learning Disability Service for two highly motivated and flexible Nursing Associates to join our small and dedicated team of Nurses and Occupational Therapists.
The team offers highly specialist community-based assessments and interventions for children and young people aged between 5-18 years, with diagnoses of moderate to severe learning disabilities, who engage in difficult to manage behaviour within their home environments.
The successful candidates will have experience of working directly with individuals with a learning disability, and ideally with children and young people, and their families. They will be committed to offering flexible and person centered services in order to meet the complex needs of our service users. They will have confidence in managing complex and sometimes challenging situations that may arise within the course of our work, and will be excellent communicators.
A range of specialist assessments and interventions are offered by the team, inclusive of Functional Behaviour Assessments, Sensory Integration Assessments, Sleep Assessments, Relationships and Sex Education and Emotional Well-being Interventions.
The successful candidates will support Nursing and Occupational Therapy colleagues in the completion of specialist assessments and interventions, and may, with supervision and support, hold a small caseload of children for whom they will coordinate interventions.
The team work across Essex, Southend and Thurrock, with a nominal base in Colchester. The successful candidates will be able and willing to easily travel within these areas to meet the needs of service users, and will be expected to work in a range of diverse settings including service users’ homes and school placements, as well as a range of other venues.
EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;
Season Ticket Loans
NHS discounts for staff
Excellent Training facilities and opportunities
Buying and Selling annual leave scheme
The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas
Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work
Day One Flexible Employer
The Trust supports and actively encourages flexible working for all employees. We offer many options and you are encouraged to ask the recruiting manager what is possible for this role. If appointed, you will have the opportunity to apply for a flexible working request from the first day of your employment
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Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.
All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.

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• To be responsible along with other members of the team for the implementation of interventions as outlined in service users’ care plans.
• Attending to the physical and psychological needs of the children and young people under the care of the nursing team.
• Act as an associate worker for service users.
• To take support the service in delivering the pathways promoted by the service including Mental Health and Challenging Behaviour.
• Ensure that accurate and objective information is recorded and signed by the appropriate member of staff.
• Establish therapeutic relationships with individual children and young people , relatives and carers are maintained by the nursing team. Contribute towards the formulation of care.
• Ensure effective and confidential communication at all times maintaining strict confidentiality with regard to any information concerning patients and colleagues.
• Demonstrate an awareness of the needs of carers of patients with learning disability.
• Be aware of the Mental Capacity Act and Mental Health Act and how to implement this safely.
• Be involved and contribute to the planning of each child’s care in accordance with agreed pathways, Building the Right Support and the Learning Disability Improvement Standards.
• Observe any changes in a child’s physical condition or mental state and document and report in an appropriate manner.
• Act in a relaxed manner, thereby contributing to the creation and maintenance of a calm and relaxed atmosphere/environment.
• Establish positive professional and appropriate relationships with patients adopting a non-judgemental approach. Always be prepared to listen and treat each child with respect and courtesy; valuing them as individuals.
• To participate in managerial supervision.
• Develop networking opportunities with other stakeholders to support care in the community and where hospital admission is required to support timely discharge.
• Develop networking opportunities with other mainstream mental health providers including inpatients; acute hospital and community services to support them to make their services accessible to children and young people with LD.

• To be responsible along with other members of the team for the implementation of interventions as outlined in service users’ care plans.
• Attending to the physical and psychological needs of the children and young people under the care of the nursing team.
• Act as an associate worker for service users.
• To take support the service in delivering the pathways promoted by the service including Mental Health and Challenging Behaviour.
• Ensure that accurate and objective information is recorded and signed by the appropriate member of staff.
• Establish therapeutic relationships with individual children and young people , relatives and carers are maintained by the nursing team. Contribute towards the formulation of care.
• Ensure effective and confidential communication at all times maintaining strict confidentiality with regard to any information concerning patients and colleagues.
• Demonstrate an awareness of the needs of carers of patients with learning disability.
• Be aware of the Mental Capacity Act and Mental Health Act and how to implement this safely.
• Be involved and contribute to the planning of each child’s care in accordance with agreed pathways, Building the Right Support and the Learning Disability Improvement Standards.
• Observe any changes in a child’s physical condition or mental state and document and report in an appropriate manner.
• Act in a relaxed manner, thereby contributing to the creation and maintenance of a calm and relaxed atmosphere/environment.
• Establish positive professional and appropriate relationships with patients adopting a non-judgemental approach. Always be prepared to listen and treat each child with respect and courtesy; valuing them as individuals.
• To participate in managerial supervision.
• Develop networking opportunities with other stakeholders to support care in the community and where hospital admission is required to support timely discharge.
• Develop networking opportunities with other mainstream mental health providers including inpatients; acute hospital and community services to support them to make their services accessible to children and young people with LD