Job Title: Registered Nursing Associate
Agency: East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust
Location: Cambridgeshire, Luton, United Kingdom
Salary/Rate: 27,485 – 30,162 £ / Year
Job Summary
We are looking to recruit a highly motivated, forward thinking, committed and enthusiastic Nursing Associate with excellent communication skills to join our Community Diabetes team. You will be pivotal in providing care to the population of Luton working across both the Diabetes team and Adult Community Nursing team, and act as a role model to current and future trainee nursing associates.
The role will focus on those patients who manage Diabetes as a long-term condition, therefore skills will be required in administering insulin and other care needs, promoting patient teaching and independence in managing their condition, alongside, delivering education to patients and professionals and ensuring their Diabetes housebound review is up to date.
You should have excellent clinical, written and verbal communication skills and have completed the Trainee Nursing Associates course, gaining NMC registration.
Main duties of the job
- Provide compassionate, safe and effective care and support to people in a range of care settings.
- Monitor the condition and health needs of people within their care on a continual basis in partnership with people, families, and carers.
- Contribute to ongoing assessment recognising when it is necessary to refer to others for reassessment
- Communicate effectively with colleagues, providing clear verbal, digital or written information and instructions when sharing information, delegating or handing over responsibility for care
- Working alongside senior health professionals in planning the work load and completing tasks on Sys1/Malinko
- Active involvement in the prevention of and protection against disease and ill health
- Engage in public health, community development, and in the reduction of health inequalities
- To liaise as appropriate with members of the Adult Nursing team.
- Develop good working relationships and liaise as appropriate with parents/ carers, and other health, social or voluntary agencies.
- To be actively involved in the communication of complex information regarding clients’ needs and any other useful information to the Adult Nursing Team, and/or other appropriate medical services (such as GP) and members of the wider Adult Services team.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Foundation Level Degree: Nursing Associate Qualification
- NMC Registered Nursing Associate
- GCSE Grade A-C English and Maths or Level 2 in Maths and English
Desirable
- Care Certificate or willingness to train
- Related health and social care qualification (Level 3)
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in teams
- Experience of patient-centred care
- Experience of health coaching and promoting independent living
- Competent with Sys1 and competencies relevant to community district nursing
Desirable
- Previous experience of working within the community setting/District Nursing service
- Evidence of involvement in support / development of less experienced staff
- Experience in community healthcare
- Willingness to learn appropriate clinical competencies
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Ability to communicate with members of the public and health and social care providers
- Ability to deal with a non-routine and unpredictable workload and individual patient contact
- Ability to manage own workload
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Ability to take part in reflective practice and clinical supervision activities
- Knowledge of when to seek advice and refer to a registered health or care professional
- Standard keyboard skills and ability to communicate through IT using packages such as Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint
- Time Management and prioritisation Skills
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Closing Date: 14 April 2026
How to Apply;
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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