Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing Associate B4
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 824-ONW-6934012-D
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Honeypot lane healthcentre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £31,081 - £33,665 Per annum inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Nursing Associate
Band 4
Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.
We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.
Job overview
Nurse Associate - Band 4 - Harrow ICS
Community Nursing, Permanent: 37.5 HRS per Week
Are you a Nurse Associate nurse passionate about community nursing?
Are looking for a new challenge?
If you’ve answered ‘yes’, we’d love to talk to you about joining one of our teams.
We currently have A Band 4 Nurse Associate vacancy in Harrow.
In Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (CLCH), community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home and we have recently been rated as good by the Care Quality Commission.
We believe community nursing gives dedicated healthcare professionals the opportunity to spend more time with the patients in their own home environment and work collaboratively with other clinicians to provide more coordinated care.
You will be working independently under the guidance and direction of a District Nurse Team leader to provide cost effective, evidence based and safe care to our patients in their own homes. Applicants must be registered with the NMC as a nurse associate and have excellent communication, clinical skill and team working skills. Experience of working in the community is desirable but not essential.
For Further details/ informal visits contact :
Veronica Vella
07985445822 Email [email protected]
Main duties of the job
The role of the Nursing Associate is to work with the multi professional team and the Registered Nurse to assess, plan, organise and deliver clinical care in line with service and patient needs, as agreed with supervising clinicians.
The nursing associate has a breadth of knowledge across the lifespan and across the fields of nursing, providing holistic and person-centred care and support for people of all ages and in a variety of settings. The nursing associate works independently under the leadership of registered nurses, working within the sphere of nursing and care and within all aspects of the nursing process. (Health Education England 2018)
Nursing associates are equipped with the knowledge, understanding, skills, attitudes, and behaviours relevant to employment as a nursing associate and will work to a nationally recognised Nurse and Midwifery (NMC) code of conduct and must meet the NMC standards of proficiency.
The post holder will be responsible for:
- Clinical Duties
- Management and Leadership
- Professionalism
- Training and Teaching
- Research
Working for our organisation
Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
- A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
- Car lease scheme *T&C’s apply
- Flexible working options
- Annual travel card loan
- Training, support and development in your career
To have a full look at our benefits and what it’s like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Assessment and planning of delegated care
- Monitoring of long-term conditions and well-being of service users including escalation of interventions when necessary
- Assist with the implementation and monitoring of clinical care and monitor outcomes
- Administering of Medication in accordance with regulatory guidelines for Nursing Associates
- Undertake onward referrals to appropriate services and community-based care support
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full roles and responsibilities.
Person specification
Education/Qualification
Essential criteria
- Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register
- Educated to a minimum level 5 Foundation degree level specific to nursing associate practice
- GCSEs Grade A-C in Maths and English or equivalent
- Care Certificate
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous experience of working within a health / care setting in the field of area applied for
- Relevant experience of working self-directed or as part of a team.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of the scope of the role of the Nursing Associate in context of the team and the organisation, and how the role contributes to service development
- Understands and acts in line with NMC professional standards for practice contained within the Code.
- Relevant clinical skills in work
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Ability to communicate effectively (written, verbal, non- verbal communication) with patients/relatives, carers, and other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
- Ability to develop effective and appropriate relationships with people, their families, carers, and colleagues.
- Ability to deal with non-routine and unpredictable nature of workload and individual patient contact
- Insight into how to evaluate own strengths and development needs, seeking advice when needed
- Ability to work well as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Ability to organise and prioritise own workload effectively
- Able to recognise own limitations in the context of the nursing associate role
- Knowledge of when to seek advice and escalate to an appropriate registered health or care professional
- Ability to participate in reflective practice and clinical supervision activities
- IT awareness and ability to use NHS systems Ability to support, supervise and act as a role model to nursing associate students, other learners and health care support workers as required within the clinical setting.
Key Attributes
Essential criteria
- Car driver with access to a vehicle (dependent on borough)
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Veronica Vella
- Job title
- Locality Manager Community Nursing Harrow ICS
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07985445622
- Additional information
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