Nurse Associate or Assistant Practitioner

Job Overview

Nursing Associate / Assistant Practitioner

Join our award-winning Adult Integrated Respiratory (AIR) Team in East Berkshire, where we deliver specialist respiratory care across home, community, and hospital settings. We support patients with a wide range of long-term respiratory conditions, focusing on providing intelligent, compassionate care to both patients and their families.

Our Service Includes

Pulmonary rehabilitation

Admission avoidance and supported hospital discharge

Oxygen therapy management

Psychological therapies

Palliative respiratory care

We work closely with primary care and voluntary sector partners to ensure holistic, patient-centred support.

As a Nursing Associate/Assistant Practitioner, you will contribute to high-quality respiratory care in both acute hospital and community environments. You’ll be fully supported through a supernumerary induction, structured teaching sessions, multidisciplinary supervision, and development of specialist respiratory competencies.

With Us, You Can Expect

An excellent learning environment

Opportunities for personal, professional, and respiratory-specific development

Ongoing guidance from experienced respiratory nurses and the wider multidisciplinary team

For An Informal Discussion About This Role, Please Contact

Specialist Nurse, Stephanie Ciampa

King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor

0300 614 6466

Main duties of the job

• To provide planned care under the supervision of a registered clinical practitioner, to deliver a seamless service for patients, by always working safely and within scope of practice
• Under supervision initially, the Nurse Associate/Assistant Practitioner will attend to patients in their home, where they will carry out follow-up assessments under the supervision of a registered clinical practitioner
• Under supervision initially, the Nurse Associate/Assistant Practitioner will be expected to deliver patient education at both pulmonary rehabilitation classes and patients’ homes when required
• Under the direction of a registered practitioner, to assist in assessment and safety visits of patients being considered or established on home oxygen (training will be provided)
• To provide training as agreed with supervisor to patient, their families, carers, and students
• To provide training to patients with digital monitoring as required and monitor the dashboard as it develops
• Be responsible for maintaining the in-hospital database, and any other organisational tasks required by the service. Assist in National Audit data collection e.g., COPD, Asthma audits and virtual ward reporting
  
  

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Education

Essential criteria

• Registered Nurse Associate
• Successful completion of (or working towards) Foundation Degree (equivalent to Diploma in Higher Education), level 5
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of continuing professional development
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Some experience of working as a Band 3 HCA in the community or in the respiratory field
• Substantial experience as a Trainee Assistant Practitioner, undertaking Foundation Degree
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of the community or respiratory nursing in hospital
  
  

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Patient/carer focused
• Highly motivated
• Able to undertake holistic, personalised assessments and promote self-care and independence
• Demonstrates flexibility to deal with the needs of unscheduled services and able to prioritise workload and work under pressure
  
  

Special Requirements

Essential criteria

• Full Valid UK driving license with access to a car
• Able to work bank holidays, weekends and unsocial hours to meet service needs
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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