- Salary: £27,053.52
- Hours: Up to 37.5 hours per week (Working flexibly over 7 days)
- Location:104-106 Church Street, Gawber, Barnsley, S75 2RL
- Closing date: 23 March 2025
- For more information about the role, please contact melanie.butcher@barnsley-hospice.org
We are currently searching for a experienced Nurse Associate who will work as part of the MDT delivering planned care to a group of patients, working within the scope of the Nurse Associate Role. Working effectively as part of the MDT, they will provide support/guidance to less experienced staff/learners within the clinical team as needed and delegate care if appropriate. Supervise and support care assistant, volunteers and students as appropriate
Key duties & responsibilities
Quality (Includes Safety/Experience/Effectiveness)
- To provide and coordinate compassionate, safe, effective clinical and therapeutic care to a caseload of patients as delegated by the Registered Nurse/regulated practitioner.
- To recognise changes in patients’ conditions which may require the intervention of others and ensure that timely referrals are made or escalation procedures are followed.
- Responsible to collect, collate, evaluate and report information, maintaining accurate patient records in all formats, including written and electronic patient information systems.
- To 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 risk assessment.
- To act as an advocate for patients, ensuring that any barriers to patients’ opinions and wishes are challenged and patients’ dignity maintained.
Governance & Leadership
- Demonstrate leadership and act as a role model to junior or less experienced members of the team.
- Ensure Barnsley Hospice’s policies relating to the security, control, and administration of drugs are adhered to in line with NMC guidance.
- Take responsibility for the coaching/training of healthcare assistants and, where appropriate, volunteers and students.
- Co-ordinate a team of care assistants and, where appropriate, volunteers and students.
- Undertake the ongoing supervision of an identified group, such as care assistants and/or volunteers.
Workforce Development & Professional Standards
- Recognise issues relating to safeguarding vulnerable adults and report any problems or raise concerns to the Registered Nurse.
- Engage in supervision & reflective practice, promoting opportunities for increased self-awareness and learning.
- To be second recorder for controlled drugs.
- Undertake various nursing skills once completed agreed Nurse Associate competencies.
- To maintain accurate healthcare records, written and computer-based, liaising with community colleagues and in line with organisational policy and professional requirements.
- Monitor and care for patients receiving oxygen therapy as directed by the Registered Nurse.
- Develop and maintain competency to undertake clinical skills to enhance the delivery of patient care, such as measuring, monitoring, and recording patient observations, reporting adverse signs to the Registered Nurse/medical team.
- Perform and record blood glucose levels using the correct equipment.
- Perform and record urine testing as per organisational policy, reporting adverse signs to the Registered Nurse/medical team.
- Assist in the administration of non-controlled drugs once deemed competent to do so.
- Perform and record clinical observations including blood pressure, temperature, respirations, and pulse.
Organisation summary
Barnsley Hospice is a charity that provides specialist palliative and end of life care to hundreds of local people and those close to them each year. Our main priority is to achieve the best possible quality of life for people living with a life-limiting illness, whilst supporting those close to them during the period of illness and bereavement. As a specialist care provider, the range of skills we offer include, pain and symptom management, emotional support and end of life care. The hospice currently employs about 100 people and has a team of volunteers, based both at the hospice and within our Retail Hub.
We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQIA+ candidates and candidates with disabilities because we are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Barnsley Hospice.
For more information about the role, please contact Human Resources at humanresources@barnsley-hospice.org.