Nurse Associate/Assistant Practitioner

Job Opportunity at Sirona

Are you an enthusiastic and passionate Nurse Associate or Assistant Practitioner looking for a fresh start? Come and join Sirona in a role where you can make a real difference to the community you live in.

You will work in a team with other multi-disciplinary professionals including Nurses, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Administrators and other support staff, on a rota system between the hours of 8am-8pm over a 7 day working period.

Key Requirements:

• Excellent communication and clinical skills
• Experience of working within a team
• Use of electronic patient record systems
• Good time management and ability to prioritize your own workload

A full driving licence and access to a vehicle is required for this role and we have full time and part time positions available!

Please disclose your preference on Nurse Associate or Assistant Practitioner in your application.

Responsibilities:

• Undertake appropriate delegated initial holistic assessments and implement programmes of care for patients who are acutely and chronically unwell
• Assess and monitor service users' health needs, assessing patient condition and well-being
• Use clinical reasoning skills, within the designated competency framework, to assess, plan, implement and evaluate, patient-centred intervention programmes
• Collaborate with service users, carers and family in identifying appropriate and achievable goals
• Contribute to the facilitation of appropriate referrals to other services
• Work within a multi-disciplinary team, to provide integrated skills and share knowledge
• Assess and arrange the provision of equipment
• Take every opportunity to support and educate service users and their carers to promote independence, good health and personal safety
• Provide and maintain a safe and comfortable environment for all patients and carers
• Support, supervise, assess and act as a role model to other learners such as Nursing Associate trainees, first year student nurses and health care support workers as required
• Maintain accurate, informative and legal records of all interventions in accordance with policy
• Actively participate in training; this may involve assisting in the delivery of training
• Take responsibility for your own delegated objectives, training, proficiencies and competence, as outlined by the NMC code of conduct
• Support delivery of vaccination campaigns