Band 4 Nursing Associate - Inpatient Unit in Bristol

Are you a dedicated and compassionate healthcare professional with at least one year of experience as a qualified Band 4? If you’re passionate about providing exceptional palliative care and looking to take the next step in your career, then this is the perfect opportunity for you! Join our supportive and dynamic team, where you’ll play a key role in delivering high-quality, person-centred care to our patients and their families.

Main duties:

• Work with and support a Registered Nurse to deliver safe, high-quality, patient-centred care.
• Provide direct care, ongoing assessment, and collaborate with the multidisciplinary team.
• Uphold NMC standards, contribute to care planning, and manage medicines within guidance.
• Support, supervise, and develop junior staff and students while promoting equality and patient rights.
• Maintain accurate documentation and contribute to service improvement within the hospice.

About Us:

We’ve spent over 40 years helping people die in peace, and with dignity. Combining compassion with clinical expertise, we provide patients with the best possible care at the end of their lives. We’re here for the people around our patients too—those closest to them. Before, during and after a bereavement, we provide support that’s remembered forever. We want to help many more people to die well, and we’re doing this by teaching others. We share our skills with other health professionals, helping the NHS and care homes to provide better end-of-life care. We’re here for all, for free, forever.

Job responsibilities:

• Work according to the NMC Code of Professional Standards of Practice and Behaviour and relevant professional guidelines and be accountable for their own professional practice, including the Clinical Skills for Band 4 Nursing Associate framework.
• Use up-to-date knowledge and evidence when delivering care, advising and promoting health and well-being, performing nursing procedures and using devices to meet individuals’ care needs in a safe and effective manner.
• Make person-centred, evidence-based judgements in partnership with others involved in the care process to ensure high quality care.
• Accurately undertake risk assessments using approved documents and assessment tools.
• Use agreed patient protocols, standard operating procedures, and clinical guidelines which reference actions in accordance with the outcome of the risk assessment.
• Plan and organise own workload and that of others, delegating appropriately and monitoring the effectiveness of any care delivered.
• Deliver care collaboratively with patients/clients, families, carers and the multidisciplinary team.
• Act autonomously within your own level of competency to undertake specific interventions and treatments.
• Recognise the limits of own competency and appropriately request supervision of the Registered Practitioner to ensure safe, high-quality care.
• Maintain competence in mandatory and statutory training, develop and maintain clinical competencies, skills and knowledge related to the area of clinical practice.
• Deliver and coordinate clinical and therapeutic care to a caseload of patients as delegated by the Registered Nurse/regulated practitioner.
• Ensure all interventions are patient-centred, delivered with compassion and dignity, and escalate poor practice/performance.
• Respond to patients, relatives and carers’ concerns and take remedial action as required, escalating appropriately.
• Be aware of clinical deterioration, emergencies, cardiac arrest, fires and major incidents and take appropriate action to ensure service continuity.
• Monitor the condition and health needs of people in care in partnership with people, families and carers.
• Contribute to ongoing assessment and recognise when it is necessary to refer for reassessment or expert help and advice.

Person Specification:

Essential Qualifications:

• Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register
• Educated to a minimum Level 5 Foundation Degree specific to Nursing Associate Practice
• GCSEs Grade A–C in Maths and English or equivalent

Experience:

• Experience relating to ward specialism
• Basic level of dealing with service users with complex health needs

Additional Criteria:

• Decision making, delegation and problem solving skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• IT skills appropriate to the role
• Ability to work well in a team
• Ability to work on own initiative
• Ability to organise and prioritise own workload
• Able to recognise own limitations in the context of the nursing associate role
• Knowledge of when to seek advice and refer to a registered health or care professional
• Ability to participate in reflective practice and clinical supervision activities

Essential:

• An understanding and empathy for the work of the Hospice
• Physically able to undertake a demanding role safely, as and when required

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and a submission for Disclosure will be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. Applicants must have current UK professional registration.