Job Description
Are you passionate about nursing? Would you like to make a difference or take on a new challenge? Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust has an exciting opportunity for a Registered Nurse Associate to join our Nursing Team on Weaver Ward.
Weaver is a 16 bed female acute mental health ward. Acute adult inpatient wards are dynamic and challenging environments, with a hard-working and dedicated staff teams who strive to provide consistent, high standards of care to our diverse client base .
We are looking for highly motivated, dynamic and passionate individuals to drive our services forward. If you have a real passion for nursing, and are looking for an exciting, fast moving clinical field to develop your skills, we'd love to hear from you.
Applicants require successful completion of the Nursing Associate training programme, which includes the attainment of a level 5 Foundation Degree equivalent qualification and NMC registration.
As a registered nurse associate you will actively contribute to the delivery of holistic care across the life-course and adopt a whole-person approach which considers, and equally values, physical, psychological and public health needs, learning disabilities, social, economic, spiritual and other factors in the assessing, planning and delivery of care.
You will deliver high quality, compassionate care under the direction of a Registered Nurse (or other registered care professional dependent on setting) with a focus on promoting health and independence.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
This post will involve delivering 24 hour, 7 days a week, 365 days a year care. Successful applicants will be required to work across all shift patterns.
Please view the job description and person specification for a full list of responsibilities.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria• Nursing Associate Foundation Degree from an approved programme
- Registered Nurse Associate and on the NMC register
Desirable criteria• Additional post registration qualification relevant to field of practice
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria• Ability to work effectively as a team member under appropriate supervision
- Ability to work independently and to use own initiative as appropriate and as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to deal with non-routine and unpredictable nature of the workload and individual patient contact
- Insight into how to evaluate own strengths and development needs, seeking advice where appropriate
- Ability to take part in reflective practice and clinical supervision activities
- Understanding of the scope of the role of the Nursing Associate in context of the team and the organisation, and how the role may contribute to service development
- Understanding of evidence based practice
- Understands and acts in line with NMC professional standards for practice as outlined in the Code
- Ability to communicate effectively with members of the public and health and care providers
- Knowledge of when to seek advice and refer to a registered care professional
- Understanding of the importance of the promotion of health and well being (Evidence of improvement in support / development of less experienced staff Evidence of recent workbased learning or self-directed learning 12/06/2019 (Making Every Contact Count)
Desirable criteria• Evidence of improvement in support / development of less experienced staff
- vidence of recent workbased learning or self-directed learning
Values
Essential criteria• Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
Skills
Essential criteria• Evidence of time management skills and ability to prioritise
- Intermediate IT skills
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Desirable criteria• Skills in audit and improvement methodology or willing to undertake
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