Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing and Midwifery
- Grade
- band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 270-TG333-ACS
- Employer
- Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Danetre Inpatients Unit, Danetre Hospital
- Town
- Daventry
- Salary
- £27,485 - £30,162 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Band 4 Registered Nurse Associate
band 4
Job overview
The Registered Nurse Associate role bridges the gap between the Rehab Care Assistants and Registered Nurses. The role is professionally regulated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council. Holders of this qualification will be required to register and re-validate as per NMC registration requirements in order to practice as a Nurse Associate in England.
Main duties of the job
Examples of specific duties that the post holder will carry out may include developing, planning, implementing and evaluating the care, medication administration and supporting doctors’ rounds, providing personal care, clinical observations, dressing, moving and handling and providing nutritional support to patients. Good communication skills are required to liaise with patients, families and other colleagues and documenting care provided. Clinical skills include recording patient’s physical observations and ECG recordings, assessing patients’ conditions through observations and test results, assess comfort of patients and instigate any emergency procedures as required.
-Able to deliver clinical skills include recording patient’s physical observations and ECG recordings, assessing patients’ conditions through observations and test results, assess comfort of patients and instigate any emergency procedures as required
-Ability to develop and maintain own scope of practice as required by the ward undertaking venepuncture, cannulation and catheterisation and other clinical skills are required following a period of supervision and competency assessment
-Ability to safely manage and administer medication as required by the service area – following supervised practice and medication competency sign off, will be required to undertake medication rounds and all medications requiring a second nurse check must be undertaken with a Registered Nurse
Working for our organisation
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Active Nurse Associate Registration with NMC
- level 5 foundation degree or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Previous Inpatient/ Rehabilitation care experience
- Additional post graduate education/ training
Skills / Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to deliver safe patient care, including medicine administration, recording/ reporting patient Obs and ECG`s.
- Good written & verbal communication skills
- Good IT and Electronic Patient Record system knowledge
Desirable criteria
- Able to interpret NEWS2 and have good understanding of the deteriorating patient.
- Understanding of sub-acute rehab & palliative care
- Experience using SystmOne or similar Electronic Patient Record system
Personal
Essential criteria
- Able to deliver care that includes moving & handling
- Friendly, approachable, team-focused attitude
- Professional manner; upholds NMC Code
- Flexible to work days/nights/weekends/bank holidays2
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
- Emma Thomason
- Job title
- Ward Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07742 505 970
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