Registered Nursing Associate

Job overview

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust provides care for approximately 600,000 adults, children, and young people across Gloucestershire, including community inpatient and outpatient services, public health nursing, community nursing and therapy staff.

Are you a Registered Nurse Associate (RNA) with some post qualifying experience, wanting to join a wonderful supportive and friendly Community Nursing Team?

Stroud Integrated Community Team (ICT) are seeking a full time/ part -time Band 4, RNA to join their team of nurses and HCA's, to provide high standards of care to adult patients in their own homes in and around the Stroud and Berkeley Vale area.

The preferred candidate will be keen to develop clinical skills, working alongside the team but will also work autonomously providing care. We provide support with learning and developing skills to enable a wide range of practice to help patients achieve their goals.

So why not join us and bring care closer to home for the many patients we support? You will have a great opportunity to gain further confidence in your decision making and be able to make a real difference for patients in this role.

This role is offered on a permanent basis. There are full time and part time hours available per week.

Job description

You will be working closely with our Registered Nurses who will support you in delivering planned care. Joining our ICT will enable you to collaborate with Specialist Services, Complex Care, Allied Health Professionals, Adult Social Care and voluntary sector organisations to provide a seamless approach to the delivery of care within the patients' own homes.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application.

We provide a Multi-professional preceptorship programme that is aligned to the National Preceptorship Framework for Nursing and have been awarded the Interim quality mark from NHS England. Our programme is provided to all Newly Qualified; Nurses, Nursing Associates, Internationally Educated Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals and Return to Practice Practitioners. In addition to the programme we also offer all preceptees the opportunity of enrolling and completing the level 7 (Masters) 15 credit validated module Preceptorship for Healthcare (AP7026).

Newly qualified Social Workers are offered the Assessed and Supported Year in Employment programme (ASYE) which is similar to a preceptorship programme.

The Trust is required to work in line with the Governments UK Visa and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information about sponsorship for certain roles, please visit - https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas

About the organisation

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.

76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.

81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Nursing Associate registration (NMC)
• Nursing Associate Level 5 Foundation Degree/Higher Apprenticeship
• GCSE Grade A-C in Maths & English or skills level 2 Maths & English or equivalent

Desirable

• Care Certificate

Experience

Essential

• Understanding of the scope of the role of the Nursing Associate in context of the team and the organisation, and how the role may contribute to service development
• Understanding of Clinical Governance
• Previous experience of working in a health care environment. Supporting people to improve and maintain their mental, physical, behavioural health and wellbeing

Desirable

• Experience of working within the community setting

Supporting documents

• RNA Community JD & PS B4 RNA (2).pdf (PDF, 296 KB)