Job summary
- Main area
- Urgent Care
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Flexible working - Shifts available 7 days per week dependent on service need.
- Job ref
- 083-6326356-SG-BANK
- Employer
- Sirona care & health CIC
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- South Bristol Urgent Treatment Centre
- Town
- Bristol
- Salary
- £15.88 Includes 12.5% annual leave supplement
- Salary period
- Hourly
- Closing
- 17/06/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Bank Nurse Associate
NHS AfC: Band 4
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Job overview
Ready to take your urgent care career to the next level? We’re recruiting for Bank Nurse Associates at our South Bristol-based Urgent Treatment Centre.
Enjoy flexible hours between 8am and 8pm and access a variety of development opportunities tailored to you.
Why join us?
• Receive NHS benefits like salary (including enhanced pay for weekends and Bank Holidays)
• Regain the work/life balance you crave
• Grow professionally with our supportive multidisciplinary teams.
Apply today for the chance to join us at our recruitment event where you can:
• Interview on-the-day
• Tour our facilities
• Meet your future colleagues.
When and where?
• Thursday 27 June – South Bristol Urgent Treatment Centre
Main duties of the job
- Provide evidence-based care under direct or indirect supervision
- Deliver advice and treatment to adults and children
- Carry out common treatments such as:
- Acute and surgical wound care management
- Splinting or plastering of limbs
- Monitoring unwell patients
- Initiate onward referrals to specialist inpatient, outpatient, or community-based teams
- Promote health and independence
- Offer health education on topics such as wound care, alcohol, plaster and mobility aid use.
Working for our organisation
Looking for a job to fit around you and your lifestyle? Perhaps you’re ready to take your next step, considering a career change, or seeking a rewarding new role where you can make a real difference.
At Sirona care & health we provide local communities with a range of high-quality specialist healthcare services across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. From clinical to clerical, we offer a variety of location-based and community roles to choose from with hours to fit around you.
We welcome and encourage all applicants. We are committed to having a workforce that reflects the communities we support and proactively seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce. We know diversity fosters creativity and innovation.
We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We aim to draw upon the widest possible range of views and experiences to meet the changing needs of our colleagues, partners and communities we serve.
You’ll receive Agenda for Change hourly rates with a 12.5% annual leave bonus, increased pay for weekend, out-of-hours, or Bank Holiday shifts, along with NHS benefits such as high street discounts and a generous Stakeholder Pension Scheme. Our offer includes a range of paid-for training, and support for your health and wellbeing with our Employee Assistance Programme.
Interested? View our benefits leaflet attached.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities before applying for this position.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NMC registration as Nursing Associate
- Recognised Nurse Associate higher education qualification
Desirable criteria
- Wound care management qualification or course
- Infection Prevention and Control training, including aseptic non touch technique.
Skills, Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Working without direct supervision
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Management of acute and/or chronic wounds
- Undertaking patient vital signs monitoring, recognising abnormal results and escalating care
Desirable criteria
- Application of Plaster of Paris immobilisation
- Application of immobilisation splints
- Ability to undertake 12 lead ECG recordings
- Experience of a an Urgent or Emergency Care setting.
- Stores management and ordering.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jeffrey Limna
- Job title
- Same Day Urgent Care Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 124 6290
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