Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatrics
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (3x shifts per week)
- Job ref
- 391-NMUH-7198714
- Employer
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- North Middlesex University Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £31,081 - £33,665 per annum inclusive of HCAs pro-rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Registered Nursing Associate - Children's Outpatients
Band 4
The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.
The hospital has been on its present site for over 100 years and was established as an NHS trust by statute in December 1990. The Trust’s services are provided on the North Middlesex University Hospital site as well as a range of community sites across the London Borough of Enfield, including at partner hospitals. They provide services in collaboration with a range of partners, including local GPs, acute, mental health and other community health service providers across North Central London.
In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children’s community services in Enfield. It is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.
Job overview
We are looking to recruit a motivated, hardworking Nursing Associate to join the Children's Outpatient Department; the successful applicant should have excellent communication skills.
We expect you to perform with passion and drive, provide excellent care, and be supportive to patients, relatives, and other MDT members. You will be expected to promote an excellent standard of patient centred care in a supported environment. You must be prepared to work well within a team and have good interpersonal skills. We are seeking people that can demonstrate the trust values. Successful candidates must possess good IT skills.
The successful applicant will be able to develop their existing knowledge and skills in supporting children, young people and families with managing diabetes. The post will involve home visits and school visits so ability to travel is essential.
You must be currently registered with the NMC as a nurse associate
Main duties of the job
The Children’s Ambulatory unit is made up of our Children’s Outpatient Department and Ocean Day Unit (ODU). ODU is a 5 bedded unit that caters to patients from multiple specialties, including haematology, endocrine, allergy, oncology, rheumatology and many more. Children attend the unit for procedures, treatments, and diagnostic scans.
Children’s Outpatients Department which runs in conjunction with ODU. It caters for all disciplines within the paediatric service and offers opportunities to work alongside teams, offering a truly multi-disciplinary approach to health care, including nurse-led clinics.
The nursing associate has a breadth of knowledge across the lifespan and across the fields of nursing, providing holistic and person-centred care supporting patients of all ages and in a variety of settings. The nursing associate works independently under the leadership of registered nurses, working within the scope of nursing care and within all aspects of the nursing process.
Nursing associates are equipped with knowledge relevant to employment as a nursing associate and will work to a nationally recognised code of conduct.
We offer a competency-based framework of development with support from our practice development team. We can offer you excellent educational opportunities from in house study courses to post graduate education through our affiliated universities.
Working for our organisation
NMUH North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London’s busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond. Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients’ wellbeing. We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.northmid.nhs.uk/
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
A full list of duties and responsibilities will be found within the job description and requirements for the role can be found within the person specification.
Person specification
Education and qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register
- • Nursing Associate foundation degree qualification
- • GCSE Grade A-C in Maths and English or skills level 2 Maths & English or equivalent
Skills/Abilities/ Experience
Essential criteria
- • Ability to prioritise and manage your own workload appropriately and independently
- • Able to undertake the clinical skills outlined in the Job description
- • Ability to deal with non- routine and unpredictable nature of workload and individual patient contact
- • Ability to communicate effectively (written, verbal and non-verbal communication) with patients/ relatives and carers and all members of the multi-disciplinary team.
- • Ability to develop effective and appropriate relationships with people their families, carers and colleagues
- • Ability to support, supervise, assess and act as a role model to trainee nursing associates, nursing assistants as required within the clinical setting.
- • Excellent communication skills- written and verbal
- • Excellent time management skills
Experience and knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- • Insight into how to evaluate own strengths and development needs, seeking advice where appropriate
- • Experience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive information Understanding of confidentiality issues
Personal qualities
Essential criteria
- Friendly, approachable and punctual.
- Accountability – Takes responsibility for own actions and promotes good Team working
- Openness – Shares information and good practice appropriately
- Mutual respect – Treats others with courtesy and respect at all times
- Flexible approach to working practices
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- • Understands and acts in line with the NMC professional standards for practice contained with The Code
- • Understanding of the scope of the role of the Nursing Associate in context of the nursing and interdisciplinary team and the organization, and how the role may contribute to service development
- • Knowledge of when to seek advice and escalate to the appropriate professional expert help and advice
- • Understand requirements for NMC professional Revalidation
- • Understanding of the importance of following procedures and treatment plans
Trust Values
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values
Applicant requirements
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
- Kean Dennis
- Job title
- Ward Manager - Children's Outpatients
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 887 2716
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