Nursing Associate HCSW Education & Training

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Would you like to develop skills in the delivery of teaching and clinical skills training whilst maintaining the generic nature of the Nursing Associate role?

We are excited to announce that we have developed 4 posts for registered Nursing Associates to work within our Learning and Education for AHP and Nursing Development Team. The post holder will support the design and delivery of a portfolio of education and training to healthcare support workers (HCSW) who work within our mental health, learning disability, childrens and adult physical health services. There will also be a strong pastoral element to the role to ensure that the support workforce has access to visible, dedicated support and supervision.

The Nursing Associate for HCSW education and training will enhance the skillset and offer a new developmental opportunities for the post holder whilst affording clinical rotation across all 4 fields of nursing.

Closing date: 7th March 2022

Shortlisting date: 8th March 2022

Interview date: TBC

The role of the Registered Nursing Associate within the Learning, Education for Nursing and AHP Development Team (LEND) spans services who deliver care from pre-conception to end of life. The post holder will support the design and tasked with the delivery of a portfolio of education and training to healthcare support workers (HCSW) who work in these areas.

This role will deliver clinical skills training and other team/ward-based support worker training priorities within their scope of practice and knowledge base. This will include involvement in a learning needs analysis activity to identify the most appropriate ways to meet learning needs across the clinical workforce.

Bradford District Care Trust is an award-winning Trust that provides a range of innovative services that have been recognised as best practice nationally. As a provider of care for people of all ages who have mental and/or community health needs we are dedicated to providing a high-quality service, close to where people live and as much as possible tailored to an individual’s needs.

The Trust’s purpose is to create connected communities and help people to feel as healthy as they can be at every point in their lives and our vision is to connect people to the best quality care, when and where they need it and be a national role model as an employer and provide our staff with the best place to work.

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values:
We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference

We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs

We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

MANAGE HEALTH INTERVENTIONS

• Provide therapeutic interventions with a service user/patient
• Monitor the condition and health needs of people within their care on a continual basis in partnership with service users/patients, families and carers
• Contribute to ongoing assessment, recognising when it is necessary to refer to others for reassessment
• Accept accountability for service users/patients and supervise junior staff and learners as required in the provision of direct/ indirect nursing care
• Monitor and contribute to the review of service user/patient progress where frequent concentration is required against planned objectives. To use initiative to act on the results within the sphere of the defined responsibility of the Nursing Associate, including reporting observations and taking action to minimise risks
• Perform nursing interventions advocated within the service user/patients care plan
• Recognise the contribution of others in the provision of service user/patient care
• Involve service users/patient/carers in the planning and delivery of care in a compassionate and appropriate manner which considers their diverse needs
• Maintain the welfare and safety of service users/patients and protect them from any form of abuse in accordance with safeguarding guidance
• Monitor the impact and effectiveness of nursing care delivered
• Demonstrate a knowledge of information governance and the need to protect service user confidential information
• Make and maintain accurate records of nursing care in accordance with the professional (NMC) guidance and Trust policy
• Demonstrate problem solving skills by identifying solutions in routine clinical issues
• Participate in regular clinical supervision
• Engage in public health, community development and in the reduction of health inequalities
• Be able to identify role boundaries
• Medicines Management as delegated by the Nurse in Charge and within the scope of practice and competency of the designated practitioner in line with BDCFT Medicines Management Policy guidance for the Nursing Associate
• Deliver high quality, compassionate care without direct supervision, taking responsibility for their own clinical competence accessing clinical and care advice when needed

The Governments’ proposal to mandate Covid 19 vaccines for all health care workers is currently under review. Until there is a formal directive in place regarding mandatory vaccines as a condition of your employment, Bradford District Care Trust does not require you to be fully vaccinated as part of your employment conditions. Please be reminded that this decision may be changed dependent on the directive from the Government once the consultation has concluded.

The Covid vaccination remains the best line of defence against Covid to protect individuals, colleagues, patients, and communities and the Trust encourages staff to take up the offer of being fully vaccinated. Please note all staff members who are working in healthcare premises, working with patients/service users and/or undertaking patient/service user visits will be required to take a twice weekly LAMP test, and to produce evidence of their negative test result on request.

If you have any concerns about whether this affects your eligibility to undertake a role with the Trust, you may wish to contact the recruiting manager to discuss this further. Please note that if you are successful, the pre-employment health check will require details of vaccination status where appropriate, and will be retained as part of your employment health record.