Nursing Associate - Redbrook Ward
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to employ a Nursing Associate on Redbrook Ward . To join our friendly, supportive team, to help us deliver high quality care to our patients.
You will be working alongside multi-disciplinary teams of highly specialist practitioners.
Redbrook is a general medical ward with 24 beds.
The post is permanent, full time (37.5 hours per week) or part time if preferred (negotiable). It will provide the successful candidate with new skills, competence and developmental opportunities, as well as the security of being part of a friendly team.
The applicant should be motivated and enthusiastic to learn and should strive to provide individualised and holistic care to patients, with a genuine desire to care for others.
Main duties of the job
The nursing associate will provide support to the registered nurse by caring for patients and enhance the quality of hands on care offered
Nursing Associates will be accountable for their own practice. You should possess good interpersonal and time management skills, be a good communicator, organised and able to prioritise and work well as a member of a team.
Working for our organisation
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.
More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”
Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view supporting documents linked to this vacancy.
Person specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential criteria- Foundation Degree Nursing Associate qualification
- NMC Nursing Associate registration
- GCSE English (grade A-C) or equivalent
- GCSE Maths (grade A-C) or equivalent
- IT qualifications
- Assessor qualification
Experience
Essential criteria- 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
Communication Skills
Essential criteria- Ability to challenge poor behaviour
- Role modelling good behaviour
- Ability to praise and be supportive to others