Registered Nurse Associate
At a glance
- Band
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time
- Posted
- 15/09/2026
- Closes
- 27/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated Registered Nurse Associate to join the Paediatric Critical Care team at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The role involves delivering care focused on individual patient needs, supporting registered nurses, and delegating tasks to non-registered practitioners. You will be responsible for developing your clinical competence and leadership skills, providing high-quality, compassionate, and safe person-centred care. The team provides specialist services including a retrieval service and critical care outreach, with structured competency-based development programmes available.
Key responsibilities
- Work as part of a designated nursing team delivering care that focuses on the direct needs of the individual, supporting registered nurses and non registered practitioners.
- Be able to appropriately delegate tasks to non registered practitioners.
- Carry out specific delegated health care tasks and responsibilities to a high standard and competency.
- Take responsibility for developing own clinical competence, leadership and reflective practice skills within the workplace.
- Have the ability to deliver care independently in line with the individual's defined plan of care, within the parameters of practice of the nursing associate role, accessing clinical and care advice when needed.
- Recognise and report any factors that may adversely impact safe and effective provision of care and know when and how to escalate any concerns when required.
Essential criteria
- Registered Nursing Associate on Nursing and Midwifery register
- Evidence of the nursing associate qualification (higher apprenticeship and /or a relevant Foundation Degree programme)
- Care certificate completion
- Able to communicate effectively with patients/relatives and carers and all members of the multi-disciplinary team.
- Evidence of working in multi-disciplinary teams under appropriate supervision
- Able to effectively and appropriately escalate concerns to reduce risk and promote patient safety.
- Evidence of time management skills and ability to prioritise own workload
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience in a Critical Care, Children's or Emergency department environment.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 4 at £26,530 – £29,114 a year, across England.
This advert: £28,392 – £31,157 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Registered Nurse Associate
The closing date is 27 September 2026
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated Registered Nurse Associate to join our Paediatric Critical Care team.
Paediatric Critical Care (PCC) at OUH includes 17 co-located Level 2 and 3 critical care beds, delivering a wide range of specialist services to patients from Oxfordshire and the wider Thames Valley and Wessex Paediatric Critical Care Operational Delivery Network (TVW PCC ODN). We are a leading Neurosurgical and Major Trauma Centre and have a vast number of medical and surgical specialities.
SORT Retrieval Service OUH PCC Services include the SORT (Southampton Oxford Retrieval Team) service, delivered in collaboration with Southampton across TVW PCC ODN. It is staffed by doctors, ACPs and nurses from both Oxford and Southampton, with Oxford providing a retrieval team 24/7.
Critical Care Outreach Service is a team of experienced nurses who support all healthcare professionals in the assessment and management of unwell children across the children's hospital, emergency department, and neonatal unit, following up and supporting children and families following discharge.
Education, Development and Training is provided through a structured competency-based development programme. Clinical and leade
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