Nursing Associate

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a full time registered Nurse Associate in our award winning CYP Community Eating Disorders Team. This is a dynamic and evolving service supporting children and families in the Hertfordshire community, and by way of a new service development offering intensive day treatment and in reach support across Tier 3 to Tier 4 pathways., This is an established role in an established service. The Nursing Associate will hold a caseload and deliver evidence-based treatment to young people suffering with an eating disorder under the supervision of the nursing team. They may also run an ECG/medical monitoring clinic and offer physical health assessment to compliment the comprehensive psychological, developmental, and social assessment undertaken by members of the MDT., The Nursing Associate has a breadth of knowledge across the lifespan and across the fields of Nursing[ ]providing holistic and person-centred care and support for people of all ages and in a variety of settings. The Nursing Associate works independently under the leadership of registered nurses, working within the sphere of nursing and care and within all aspects of the nursing process.

• Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register


• Educated to a minimum level 5 Foundation degree level specific to nursing associate practice


• GCSEs Grade A-C in Maths and English or equivalent


Desirable criteria


• QCF in Care/Health and Social Care Level 2/3 or equivalent experience


• Care certificate, Previous experience of working within a health/care setting, Excellent interpersonal and communication skills


• IT skills appropriate to the role


• Ability to work well in a team


• Ability to work on own initiative


• Ability to organise and prioritise own workload


• Able to recognise own limitations in the context of the nursing associate role


• Knowledge of when to seek advice and refer to a registered health or care professional


• Ability to participate in reflective practice and clinical supervision activities, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.


Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?, Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is rated by the Care Quality Commission as an Outstanding provider of mental health and learning disability services. In 2021, we won the prestigious Health Service Journal award for Mental Health Trust of the Year, with the judges saying they were "blown away" by our people's achievements and that everything they saw "sings and hums". This year, our staff rated us the 4^th best mental health and learning disability trust to work for out of all 52 trusts in the country. Our staff tell us that they are proud to be part of the HPFT team, proud of the standard of care we provide and proud that service users are our top priority. Our people tell us they feel supported though a great development, wellbeing and work-life balance offer and a highly compassionate, values-driven culture. We are equally proud of our staff, who live our values of being welcoming, kind, positive, respectful and professional