B4 Nurse Associate EHCH-LD

If you are excited about working in innovative community integrated services, then this opportunity to come and work with the Haringey

Proactive Care - Enhanced Health in Care Homes- Learning Disability Team is for you! This role is ideal for a person with a passion for utilising your skills and experience for supporting clinicians and clients.

We are looking for someone who has excellent holistic personalised care skills and able to support assessment and interventions to improve the physical health, mental health, and wellbeing of people with Learning disability with long-term living in the borough of Haringey.

The role is a great opportunity to work in partnership with other professionals within the team including: - Consultant Geriatricians, GPs, Pharmacists, Community Matrons, Trusted Assessors, Haringey learning disability team supported by a fantastic administration team.

You will be expected to embrace activities and tasks outside of traditional Nursing Associate role adopting shared competencies to be able to support the whole MDT.

You will be supported to develop skills and competences in frailty and would have the opportunity to stretch and develop your skills with the support of the team and with regular professional supervision.

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Main duties of the job

You will be committed to addressing Health and Social Inequalities for your clients and work towards the team purpose of, managing health, wellbeing and preventing crises through innovative partnership working.

The Nursing Associate is a registered practitioner with the NMC and will act in accordance with the NMC Nursing Associate Standards of

Proficiency and the NMC code.

The post holder will be:

Responsible for providing care and therapy to patients as delegated by the registered nurse or MDT Professionals to ensure a seamless service to patients.

Allocated a caseload of patients by the registered nurse or MDT and will be expected to work independently, holistically assessing patients' needs, planning and prioritising their workload and implementing evidence-based care, evaluating the outcomes of care under the minimal supervision of the registered nurse.

Required to provide optimum quality of care to patients, offering support to the multi-professional team and will take responsibility for an allocated caseload.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.