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 of the job:

• 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 think it's that unforgettable support that inspires people to give back to St Peters. To fundraise for us. Donate. Volunteer. We're not exaggerating when we say that we couldn't do what we do without our wonderful supporters. We really can't thank them enough. We want to help many more people to die well. And we're doing this by teaching others. As a centre of educational excellence, 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 your 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.
• The post holder will make person‐centred, evidence‐based judgments 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, 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 monitor the effectiveness of any care delivered.
• Ensure that this is delivered collaboratively with people, 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 your competency and appropriately request supervision of the Registered Practitioner to ensure the delivery of safe, high‐quality care.
• Achieve and maintain competence in identified mandatory and statutory training, develop, and maintain clinical competencies, skills and knowledge which relate 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 that all interventions are patient centred; delivered compassionately and with dignity; whilst challenging and escalating poor practice/performance.
• Respond to patients, relatives and carers concerns as they arise and take remedial action as required and escalate appropriately.
• Be aware of and take appropriate action in regard of clinical deterioration of patient, clinical emergencies, cardiac arrest, and fire, internal and major incidents which affect service continuity.
• Monitor the condition and health needs of people within their care on a continual basis in partnership with people, families, and carers.
• Contribute to ongoing assessment and recognise when it is necessary to refer to others for re‐assessment or for expert help and advice.

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.
• Completed Care Certificate.
• QCF in Care / Health & Social Care Level 2/3 or equivalent experience.

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.

Additional Criteria:

• 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 as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.