The Nursing Associate is to undertake the following key responsibilities in delivering health services: Delivery of high quality, compassionate care while undertaking specific clinical and care tasks under the direction of a nominated individual with a focus on promoting good health and independence To provide high-quality holistic and person-centred care to individuals To provide routine care to patients as required in accordance with clinical based evidence, NICE and the NSF To provide wound care, dressings and other clinical tasks as required To work as part of the organisation's MDT to provide and monitor care, under direct or indirect supervision To improve safety and quality of care at every opportunity To contribute to the delivery of integrated care To work with the organisation's MDT to ensure delivery of nursing associate duties to complement existing workforce To work with a supervisor to take responsibility for developing own clinical competence, leadership and reflective practice skills within the workplace To provide support and supervision to training nursing associates, healthcare assistants, apprentices and those on learning assignments/placements as required To support registered nurses to enable them to be able to focus on the more complex clinical care To develop relationships across the MDT to support integration of the role across health and social care including primary care, secondary care and mental health To perform and record clinical observations such as blood pressure, temperature, respirations and pulse After undertaking additional training, to provide flu vaccinations, ECGs and venepuncture and other relevant clinical tasks as required by the organisation in line with competencies of the role To promote health and wellbeing to all patients, for example undertaking the NHS health check To care for individuals with dementia, mental health conditions and learning disabilities To provide would care (ulcer/Doppler etc) to patients To provide support during minor operations as required To advise patient on general healthcare and promote self-management where appropriate, including signposting patients to personalised care colleagues and local community and voluntary sector services To communicate proactively and effectively with all MDT colleagues attending and contributing to meetings as required To maintain accurate and contemporaneous patient health records ensuring that clinical data is appropriately recorded with SNOMED CT codes To enhance own performance through continuous professional development, imparting own knowledge and behaviours to meet the needs of the service To work with your line manager to access regular clinical supervision to enable you to deal effectively with the difficult issues that people present To contribute to and embrace the spectrum of clinical governance To attend a formal appraisal with your manager at least every 12 months. Once a performance /training objective has been set, progress will be reviewed on a regular basis so that new objectives can be agreed To contribute to public health campaigns (eg flu clinics) through advice or direct care Maintain a clean, tidy, effective working area