Nursing Associate | South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust in Teddington

This is an exciting opportunity to work within our Twickenham and Richmond Integrated Recovery Hubs as a Nursing Associate. The service provides care and treatment for working age adults with severe and enduring mental illness who live in the borough of Richmond.

This is a great opportunity to join one of our passionate and forward-thinking teams, develop skills, and enhance your overall career pathway. You will be a member of a multi-disciplinary team that aims to provide high quality community-based care to a diverse population, committed to new ways of working, challenging stigma and promoting recovery.

Only qualified/soon to be qualified nursing associates will be considered. The nursing associate role works closely with band 6 clinic nurses delivering mental and physical health intervention in our busy clozapine, depot and cardio metabolic assessment (CMA) clinics. The role requires someone who has a high level of physical health skills, a good understanding of mental health and relevant mental health interventions and is keen to drive forward quality improvement and innovation. In addition, the role requires someone who is flexible and who can work both autonomously and under direct supervision.

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust. We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’. This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services as we invest a further £120m to upgrade and modernise our estate by 2027.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti-racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do. We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

Come and join our inclusive teams and help our patients on our recovery journey.

• Working autonomously within the parameters of the role leading on implementing the delivery of quality nursing care, contributing to the physical, psychological, social, recreational and spiritual care in a recovery-focused way through therapeutic engagement and activities, and taking steps to address any issues that arise.
• Leading on and undertaking activities to ensure that the fundamentals of care are met - nutrition, hydration, hygiene, comfort, emotional and social support.
• Escort service users, as required, in line with Trust policies.
• Facilitating the admission and discharge of service users, ensuring needs of the patient are met including activities such as property checks, orientation to services, and ensuring that community support needs are met.
• Advocating for service users' needs and rights within Trust policy. Encouraging and empowering service users to have an optimum level of responsibility for their individual programme of care.
• Subject to the requirements of a particular service area and within the confines of the role, following trust policy/government regulatory guidance and upon successful completion of an approved programme of study and competency assessment signed by ward manager for the clinical area, the post-holder will administer routine medications.
• Supporting and ensuring the day-to-day smooth running of the clinical area. This will include coordinating and prioritising activities.

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