Nursing Associate

Mid Sussex ATS are seeking to recruit a highly motivated and skilled Nursing Associate with experience in venepuncture. It will be your responsibility to coordinate and undertake physical health assessments for our Client Group with support from band 6 staff and medical staff. This will involve visiting and carrying out assessments in the community for hard to engage patients (with another member of staff). This post is for 37.5 hours per week. Your role may also involve other tasks around supporting and building relationships with patients, depending on your experience., We are a well-staffed multi-disciplinary team made up of Social Workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, a Psychologist, Psychiatrists, Support Workers, Peer Support Worker and a Pharmacy Technician. We operate as a team within a creative and flexible approach and provide shared responsibility of risk management to support our service users who have a primary diagnosis of psychosis. We run groups for service users and has a biopsychosocial approach to support. Your role will involve supporting Lead Practitioners with their complex caseload, primarily around physical health checks. Your role may, at times, also involve undertaking duty tasks including supporting patients in crisis, with medication related matters and practical support to service users by building up long term relationships with them.Working for our organisation The Trust provides mental health and learning disability care for all ages across Sussex. We'd love you to join our Trust, rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, recent staff survey results told us that 82% recognise that care for patients is our top priority. Key staff survey results include:

• 70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at work
• 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work in their team
• 77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles
  
  Are you a Registered Nursing Associate with training in Venepuncture and experience of physical health checks, with a motivation to work in mental health?
Would you thrive in a role where you work with a complex caseload?,
• Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register
• Educated to a minimum level 5 Foundation degree level specific to nursing associate practice
• Care Certificate, Minimum of three years working with people with mental health problems (A/I)
• Ability to listen effectively and communicate at all levels (I)
• Basic written communication skills to enable completion of records etc (A)
• Empathy, compassion and patience (I)
• Willingness to be flexible in meeting service users needs (I)
• Ability to create innovative solutions to help empower service users (A,I)
• Ability to work unsupervised in a range of settings. (A,I)
• Ability to form positive therapeutic relationships with service users and carers. (A,I)
• A keenness to make a positive contribution to improving the quality of life for people with mental health problems. (A,I)
• Ability to acknowledge diversity and promote antidiscriminatory practice/equal opportunities (A,I)
• Ability to provide practical support with daily living activities (A/I)
• An ability to act calmly in emergencies and to respond in a professional manner to stressful and challenging behaviour. (I), You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.
So what can we offer you in return? We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving. You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities. As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level. If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team., Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities. We regret that we are unable to advise candidates if they have not been shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. In the event of an excessive number of applicants the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated. Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously and expects this of all its employees and bank workers. The Trust works with adult and children's social care to ensure that the integrated service has systems in place to equip staff and bank workers with the knowledge and skills to recognize abuse, and take action to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children and young people. It is expected that all staff and bank workers familiarise themselves with the appropriate structures and policies and with the Sussex child protection and safeguarding procedures and the Sussex multi-agency policy and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults and undertake the relevant essential training and further training appropriate to their role. Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience in a similar role can be demonstrated and evidenced, this may be taken into consideration when setting the starting salary.