Nursing Associate
At a glance
- Band
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 17/09/2026
- Closes
- 01/10/2026
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Role summary
The Nursing Associate will deliver high-level, evidence-based care and practical duties under the supervision of registered nurses. This role involves working as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide quality nursing care in intermediate care settings, clients' homes, residential homes, and clinical environments. The post holder will maintain communication links between various healthcare and social services, with vacancies available across Bexley and Greenwich District Nursing.
Key responsibilities
- Manage priorities as delegated by the registered nurse.
- Accept delegated assessment responsibility, delivering individual plans of care.
- Participate in the delivery of complex care as prescribed by the registered healthcare professional.
- Maintain a professional standard of record keeping and evaluate patient progress.
- Teach and demonstrate correct use of equipment and self-care elements to patients and carers.
- Contribute to team and service development, identifying opportunities to improve service delivery.
Essential criteria
- Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register.
- English and Mathematics basic qualifications (eg GCSE at Grade C or above or evidence of Level 2 in Functional skills for numeracy and literacy)
- Experience of working in teams under appropriate supervision as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Understanding of the scope of the role of the Nursing Associate in context of the nursing and interdisciplinary team and the organisation
- Understands and acts in line with NMC professional standards for practice contained within The Code.
- Communication and relationship skills Communications skills - receiving and conveying sensitive information, with staff and with service users and able to keep accurate records. Knowing when to escalate concerns and to whom.
- Able to provide quality care that is responsive to service user's needs, with supervision available but not always present, and acting on own initiative, within protocols, policies and care plans.
- Computer literacy
Desirable criteria
- Community Experience
- Experience in different clinical care settings- including community.
- Training and experience in specialist skills such as ECG, Vital Signs, Phlebotomy, Blood glucose monitoring, flash glucose monitoring.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 4 at £26,530 – £29,114 a year, across England.
This advert: £33,262 – £36,027 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Nursing Associate
The closing date is 01 October 2026
Job summary
*Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post*
The Nursing Associate will deliver a high level of care and evidence-based interventions. They will provide a wide range of practical care duties and be able to take appropriate action to achieve planned aims and objectives of individual clients with the supervision of the registered nurses; and be accountable for the standards of such delegated duties.
Work as part of a team to deliver quality evidence based nursing care to clients within intermediate care settings and their own home, residential homes, and clinical environments.
Maintain positive communication link between primary care, secondary care, social services, and voluntary agencies.
We have vacancies across Bexley and Greenwich District Nursing.
Main duties of the job
- Manage priorities as delegated by the registered nurse.
- To accept delegated assessment responsibility, delivering individual plans of care to meet the immediate needs and on-going needs of the service users and their carers.
- To participate in the delivery of complex care as prescribed by the registered healthcare professional.
- To have knowledge of specific physical, emotional, physiological, social, cultu
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