Nursing Associate - Acute Response

Are you a qualified nursing associate looking for an exciting new challenge and would like to be part of our new Acute response Team if so We are searching for Band 4 Nursing Associates to come and join our new and evolving nursing team in CHFT Acute Response service. This service will support the deteriorating patient on both sites and will be working with the new integrated team (formerly Critical Care Outreach and Hospital Out of Hours). The post holder will work as an integral member of the Acute response team, providing an exemplary service to deteriorating patients. The post holder will utilise an appropriate assessment tool to determine allocation of tasks to skilled professionals, as well as utilise own learned skills, to include: triaging patients, venepuncture and cannulation, collection of blood cultures, ultrasound guided cannulation, venous blood gas sampling, spirometry out of hours, Be involved in informal and formal education to other healthcare professionals within the Trust. This role will cover out of hours, predominantly nights, weekend days and nights, and bank holidays. The post holder will be required to rotate between both sites that make up Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust.,

• To be responsible for providing the appropriate nursing evidence based care of an allocated group of patients.
• Be an accountable professional who is responsible for their actions, working in line with NMC standards of proficiency
• Recognise and work within the limits of their competency
• To work as part of a multidisciplinary team using resources efficiently.
• To deliver quality care to patients and to work effectively within the nursing team.
• To be competent in carrying out a variety of clinical procedures.
  
  We employ more than 6,500 staffwho deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals,Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, healthcentres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services. We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza. We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation.Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS- yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boardslisten to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff andthe local community. Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in thechanges to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.