Nursing Associate in Thirsk

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Permanent Contract Locations: Herriot Hospice, Thirsk

Hours: 37.5 hours per week (24 hours shift pattern, 5 over 7 including nights and weekends)

Salary: £30,741.35 per annum FTE, rising to £32,556.15 per annum FTE (45% of hours need to be in unsocial hours)

Closing date: Monday 6th July 2026 (the advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of suitable applications)

Do you want to be part of an organisation that makes a real difference to our local communities? Our family of services including Herriot Hospice Homecare, Just B and Saint Michaels Hospice provide vital support to people when they need it most. Our vision is of a community where everyone gets the care they need, want and deserve, you can help make that a reality. We are an independent charity powered by local communities. Every day, we help to improve quality of life for people living with terminal illness, bereavement and mental health concerns, because our belief is that no one should suffer. Our incredible teams work together to make this happen.

Main duties of the job

Are you a qualified Nursing Associate looking for a role where you can make a meaningful impact? If you're committed to person-centred care and want to support patients and their families during some of life's most challenging moments, we warmly welcome you to join our compassionate hospice team. We're currently seeking a dedicated Nursing Associate to work at our inpatient unit in Thirsk. This rewarding role gives you the opportunity to deliver high-quality, compassionate care to individuals living with life-limiting illnesses. You'll become part of a supportive, multidisciplinary team providing holistic care in our Inpatient Unit setting.

Your role as a Nursing Associate

• Supporting patients with a wide range of physical, emotional, and psychological needs to enhance comfort and quality of life.
• Delivering care in our inpatient unit, assisting with personal care, symptom management, daily routines, and emotional support in a calm and supportive environment.
• Providing assistance with complex symptoms, medication, nutrition, personal care, and activities of daily living, in accordance with individual care plans.
• Contributing to overall care planning and documentation.
• Communicating openly and compassionately with patients, families, and team members.

About us

Our values:

• We put the people who use our services at the heart of everything we do.
• We are caring and compassionate.
• We are personal and supportive in our approach.
• We are responsive.
• We are fair.
• We are professional.
• We work collaboratively.
• We are accountable.

Living out our values:

Our behaviour framework puts our values in the context of our everyday work. We positively encourage applications from all areas of the community, regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age, or sexual orientation and from users of mental health services. This is part of our commitment to equality and reflecting the diversity of our communities. We believe that children, young people and adults should never experience abuse of any kind. Our safer recruitment and safeguarding processes help protect those accessing our services.

If you require any support or adjustments to be able to apply for this role, please let us know by emailing people@saintmichaelshospice.org. We will need to complete satisfactory pre-employment checks before appointing you. These include but are not limited to identity checks, DBS clearance at an appropriate level for the role, verification of right to work in the UK, employment references and employment history. We will cover the cost of these.

Job responsibilities

Job Description Nursing Associate

1. Job Purpose: The role of the Nursing Associate is to work with the multi-disciplinary team and under the leadership of the Registered Nurse to monitor, contribute to, and inform patient care, ensuring safe and compassionate delivery of care to patients and families in the Inpatient Unit. The Nursing Associate works independently, under the leadership of the Registered Nurses, within all aspects of the nursing process.
2. Key Tasks Operational:
• To contribute to care planning and deliver care under the leadership of a Registered Nurse to patients requiring palliative and/or end of life care.
• To offer timely and individual direct care based on patient need.
• To monitor patients for symptoms and provide non-pharmacological relief where possible, administering medication via all conventional methods and referring for senior advice when appropriate.
• To administer prescribed medication in accordance with NYHC guidance and policy.
• To monitor and identify changes in patients' conditions holistically (physical, psychological, and social needs), and ensure timely escalation or intervention by the appropriate professionals when required.
• Delegate care tasks to healthcare assistants where appropriate, ensuring competence and monitoring outcomes.
• To be a second checker for controlled drugs.
• To undertake various nursing skills as required such as: insertion and removal of urinary catheters, and subcutaneous cannula insertion.
• Responsible to collect, collate, monitor and report information, maintaining accurate patient records in all formats, including written and electronic patient information systems.
• To accurately contribute to risk assessments and elevate any concerns regarding prescribed care when required.
• To act as an advocate for patients, ensuring that any barriers to patients' wishes are challenged and patients' dignity maintained.
• Contribute to safe discharge planning or care transitions by liaising with relevant professionals in the MDT.
• Escalate concerns promptly to the registered nurse or relevant MDT member when care reassessment is required.
• To communicate fully and effectively with patients, their families and professional colleagues to ensure a safe and needs led care pathway.
• To work as a member of the multidisciplinary team to ensure a co-ordinated and defined management plan/plan of care for each patient.
• To support, train and act as a role model to junior or less experienced members of the team.
• Provide clear and concise written and verbal handovers to support continuity of care.
3. Regulatory:
• Ensure NYHC's policies relating to the security, control and administration of drugs, are adhered to in line with NMC guidance.
• Ensure that clinical risk management and safeguarding procedures and relevant good practice guidelines are followed at all times.
• To act within the Professional Bodies Code of Practice and NMC Code and Standards for Nursing Associates.
4. The above is not an exhaustive list of duties and you will be expected to perform different tasks as necessitated by your changing role within the organisation and the overall business objectives of the organisation.

Overarching responsibilities:

• To embed the values of the organisation into your working practices evidencing this regularly and ensuring this remains a priority.
• To live out our values, which drive all that we do, in the context of your everyday work following our behaviour framework.
• To work in accordance, and fully comply, with our organisational policies and procedures.
• To carry out all duties in accordance with the law, regulations, organisational frameworks, recognised professional guidelines and have a commitment to FREDIE, integration and collective decision making.

Throughout your time with us we will conduct ongoing employment checks and performance reviews relevant to your role, for example professional registration checks, DBS, appraisals and regular contact meetings.

Person Specification Qualifications:

• Registered Nursing Associate with current NMC registration.
• Experience in a healthcare setting, ideally within palliative care, a specialist ward, or complex community services.
• An insight into and a passion for palliative care.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and a professional approach.
• A caring, compassionate, and patient-focused attitude.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a team.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check: This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.