Job overview

The Nursing Associate will deliver a high level of care and evidence-based interventions. They will provide a wide range of practical care duties and be able to take appropriate action to achieve planned aims and objectives of individual clients with the supervision of the registered nurses; and be accountable for the standards of such delegated duties.

 Work as part of a team to deliver quality evidence based nursing care to clients within intermediate care settings and their own home, residential homes, and clinical environments.

Maintain positive communication link between primary care, secondary care, social services, and voluntary agencies.

We have vacancies across Bexley and Greenwich District Nursing.

Main duties of the job

Manage priorities as delegated by the registered nurse.

To accept delegated assessment responsibility, delivering individual plans of care to meet the immediate needs and on-going needs of the service users and their carers.

 To participate in the delivery of complex care as prescribed by the registered healthcare professional.

 To have knowledge of specific physical, emotional, physiological, social, cultural and spiritual needs of patients and their carers. 

 To undertake other duties commensurate with the banding of this post in agreement with the relevant line manager

 Plan and document the patients’ progress on the Trust’s information systems.

To maintain a professional standard of record keeping. 

 To evaluate patient progress and discuss with senior clinicians through feedback discussions and multi-disciplinary meetings.

 To teach and demonstrate the correct use of equipment to optimise patients’ functional ability and independence.

 To teach and demonstrate elements of self-care to patients and their carers so that the patients’ independence is maximised.

 To contribute to the team and service development, identifying opportunities to improve service delivery. 

 Ability to identify/manage and take action to minimise or eradicate risk to patients.

 Ensure safe, appropriate and effective provision and demonstration of stock equipment.

 Ensure new team members are adequately introduced to the team during induction by providing peer support.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care