Nursing Associate
At a glance
- Band
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 14/09/2026
- Closes
- 20/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a Band 4 Nursing Associate within the UK's leading OCD and BDD treatment centre, based at Seacole Ward, Springfield University Hospital. You will provide high-quality, compassionate, and recovery-focused care to patients with complex mental health needs who have not responded to previous treatments. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will support service users throughout their treatment journey, delivering therapeutic care, monitoring wellbeing, and assisting with care planning. This position offers the chance to develop specialist skills in OCD and BDD care within a nationally commissioned NHS England Tier 6 service.
Key responsibilities
- Support the delivery of high-quality, person-centred care within a specialist OCD/BDD inpatient service.
- Implement care plans, undertake physical health monitoring, and support therapeutic interventions.
- Encourage service users to engage in treatment and recovery-focused activities.
- Contribute to maintaining a safe and therapeutic ward environment, escalating concerns appropriately.
- Develop positive therapeutic relationships and contribute to accurate clinical documentation.
- Assist with admissions and discharges, and support medication management within scope of practice.
Essential criteria
- Understanding of the scope of the role of the Nursing Associate in context of the nursing and interdisciplinary team and the organisation, and how the role may contribute to service development.
- Understands and acts in line with NMC professional standards for practice contained within The Code.
- Knowledge of when to seek advice and escalate to the appropriate professional for expert help and advice.
- Experience of working in teams under appropriate supervision as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Understanding of the importance of following procedures and treatment plans.
- Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register.
- Nursing Associate foundation degree qualification.
- English and Mathematics basic qualifications (e.g. GCSE at Grade C or above, New GCSE Grade 4-9 in Maths and English Language or evidence of Level 2 in Functional skills for numeracy and literacy).
- Ability to develop effective and appropriate relationships with people, their families, carers and colleagues.
- 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.
- Able to plan and co-ordinate and prioritise own and team work within a shift system.
- 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
- Ability to positively engage distressed individuals and de-escalate highly- aroused situations
Desirable criteria
- Experience in different clinical care settings
- Vital Signs, Phlebotomy.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 4 at £26,530 – £29,114 a year, across England.
This advert: £34,186 – £37,389 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 1d ago · Closes in 6d
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South West London and St Georges Mental Health NHS Trust
Nursing Associate
The closing date is 20 September 2026
Job summary
Make a meaningful difference in specialist mental health care by joining the UK's foremost OCD and BDD treatment centre as a Band 4 Nursing Associate. Working within our National OCD/BDD Service, you will provide high-quality, compassionate and recovery-focused care to people with complex mental health needs who have not responded to previous treatments.
Based at Seacole Ward, a 14-bed specialist inpatient unit within Springfield University Hospital, you will work alongside Registered Nurses, Psychiatrists, CBT Therapists and Occupational Therapists to support service users throughout their treatment journey. You will play a key role in delivering therapeutic care, monitoring physical and mental wellbeing, supporting care planning and promoting recovery and independence.
This rewarding role offers the opportunity to develop specialist skills in OCD and BDD care within a nationally commissioned NHS England Tier 6 service. We are seeking a motivated and compassionate Nursing Associate who is committed to providing outstanding patient-centred care and contributing positively to a specialist multidisciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
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