Qualified Nursing Associate (Community)
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation TrustDarlington, North East
Overview
This is a NHS role (permanent) with Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust based in Darlington. The advertised salary is £28,392 to £31,157. Applications close on 18 October 2026. GovJobs has indexed this vacancy from its official source — use the apply button to view the full advert and apply directly.
Job description
A unique opportunity has arisen for a Registered Nursing Associate to join the Darlington Treatment & Intervention Team at West Park Hospital. The app...
The successful applicant will work as part of the busy community team offering a recovery focused pathway to Service Users and will carry their own caseload as key worker, with the support of the multi-disciplinary clinical team. This will include the ongoing monitoring and support of our long-term patients, including those on treatments such as lithium, clozapine, depot medications etc.
There will also be some other varied elements to the role, appropriate to the scope of a Nursing Associate.
This role will involve multiagency working and liaison with other services within Tees Esk and Wear Valley NHS Trust.
We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.
From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care --our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.
We nurture the recovery journey of anyone in need of our help. In Our Trust, everyone has a say in how they are supported and treated because we listen to every person in our care until they feel understood. Our patients, their families and carers work together with us towards better mental health.
We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.
We won't rest until everyone in our region has the mental health care they need, to lead their best possible life.
Essential: - Ability to take part in reflective practice and clinical supervision activities; - Ability to organise and prioritise own delegated workload; - Ability to develop effective and appropriate relationships with people, their families, carers and colleagues
Desirable: - Experience in the administration of depot injections and depot clinics.; - Experience in supporting patients taking long term medications - clozapine and lithium etc.
Essential: - Experience of working in teams under appropriate supervision as part of a multi-disciplinary team; - Insight into how to evaluate own strengths and development needs, seeking advice where appropriate; - Experience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive information
Desirable: - knowledge of mental illness
Essential: - Up to date understanding of the scope of and role of the Nursing Associate in context of the nursing and multidisciplinary 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.; - Experience of working with clients who experience mental illness
Desirable: - Experience of working within an community setting
Essential: - Registered Nursing Associate on the NMC register; - Nursing Associate Foundation Degree qualification; - GCSE Grade A-C in Maths & English or skills level 2 Maths & English or equivalent
Desirable: - Qualification in assessment, supervision and teaching in clinical practice
How this role compares
We hold 349 NHS vacancies in North East that publish a salary, and their median advertised starting figure is £32,073. This role pays less than about 63% of them.
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You have 15 days left to apply. NHS adverts we hold typically run for around 59 days, so this is a shorter window than usual.
Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust has 68 other vacancies open on GovJobs, with a breakdown of what they pay and the kinds of roles they recruit for.
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