Job overview

As a Band 4 Nurse Associate, you will work closely with service users, their families, friends, and carers to ensure safe, high-quality, and positive experiences. You will achieve this by utilising sound clinical skills and effective risk assessments, adhering to evidence-based policies, and respecting and empowering individuals throughout the care planning process.

This position requires close collaboration with service users, their families, and carers to ensure safe, effective, and positive care experiences. You will apply sound clinical skills, adhere to evidence-based policies, and empower individuals through the care planning process. Key duties include assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating delegated caseloads, supervising junior healthcare support workers and trainees, and performing delegated clinical activities.

You will be expected to participate in 24-hour internal rotation, encompassing early, late, night, and long day shifts. Flexibility to move to other Community Hospital sites to meet service demands is also required. The inpatient ward focuses on rehabilitation, admitting patients directly from their homes and acute trusts.

Opportunities are available across East and West Kent. 

Main duties of the job

More emphasis on community-based care means it’s never been a better time to join our brilliant teams across Kent.

Our flexible and compassionate colleagues care for patients within a community hospital setting, supporting patients to leave hospital and live a happy and healthy life at home. We treat the whole person, not just the condition. Our work is practitioner-led and therapy focused.

Caring for people in the community requires specialist knowledge and skills, we will develop you through our excellent educational opportunities that range from degrees to apprenticeship- schemes.

As a Nurse Associate within the Community hospital setting you will provide full holistic assessments, and develop patient-centred care plans, using the skills and knowledge you have obtained during your foundation degree study. You will be providing individualised high-quality care to patients, so you will need the relevant experience of working at a Senior Healthcare Assistant level.

You will be expected to participate in 24-hour internal rotation and move to other Community Hospital site to cover the needs of the service.

We welcome flexible working arrangements and offer a range of with a variety of work life balance initiatives that mean we have the perfect job for you.

Working for our organisation

Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent

We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences

We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn’t visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission

The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both

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