Job vacancy: Nursing Associate, Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Milton Keynes

Job summary

Main area: Urology
Grade: Band 4
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 430-SUR25-130A-B4

Employer: Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Urology Inverstigation Unit (Dept)
Town: Milton Keynes
Salary: £27,485 - £30,162 Per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 05/09/2025 23:59
Interview date: 22/09/2025

Nursing Associate

Band 4

At Milton Keynes University Hospital, you will be welcomed into a friendly and supportive environment where teamwork and respect are at the heart of everything we do. We are proud to live our Trust values and behaviours every day, creating a culture where everyone feels heard and valued.

MKUH staff's Motivation and Involvement scores are among the highest in our peer group, showing that our people feel inspired and included in decision-making (Staff Survey, 2024).

Our benefits

We believe in recognising and rewarding the amazing contribution of our staff and that is why we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your wellbeing, work-life balance, and professional growth, including:

Free on-site parking including EV charging
Complimentary refreshments
Flexible working arrangements
Discounted gym membership
Salary sacrifice car scheme
Generous annual leave, with the option to bank holiday entitlement
Membership of the NHS Pension Scheme
On-site nursery (charges apply)
A wide-ranging staff health and wellbeing programme including EAP
VIVUP products to support your mental, physical, and financial Wellbeing

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main duties and responsibilities

Clinical

• Deliver high quality, compassionate care under the direction of a Registered Nurse (or other registered care professional) with a focus on promoting health and independence.
• Have appropriate attitudes and behaviors compatible with NHS and Trust values.

Policy and Service Development

• Promote health and safety maintaining best practice in health, safety and security.
• Share ideas with colleagues to improve care and suggest areas for innovation.

Communication and relationships

• Communicate effectively across a wide range of channels and with a wide range of individuals, such as patients and their relatives and health and social care professionals to maintain safe effective care.
• Demonstrate those inter-personal skills that promote clarity, compassion, empathy, respect and trust.

Analytical and judgmental skills

• Exercise personal responsibility and work independently within defined parameters of practice, taking the initiative in a variety of situations and performing a range of clinical and care skills consistent with the role, responsibilities and professional values of a Nursing Associate.
• Exercise judgment in assessing patient condition, comfort and wellbeing using a range of information sources.

Financial and physical resources

• Exercise personal duty of care in the safe use and storage of equipment.
• Be environmentally aware and prudent in use of resources and energy.

Equality and diversity

• Act in ways which support equality and value diversity.
• Support development of less experienced staff and students.

Information resources

• Develop skills to maintain professional standards of record keeping.
• Follow all information governance guidance and policies.

Freedom to Act

• Work within the organisational policy, procedures and guidelines.
• Be responsible and accountable for own practice, working within limits of competence and within professional boundaries.
• Raise any concerns to a registered care professional or other appropriate person.

Teaching and Training

• Be proactive in seeking opportunities to develop their own knowledge and skills.
• Work in partnership with their line manager to develop and deliver on Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-bound (SMART) objectives at annual appraisal and personal development planning meetings.

Please refer to the Job Description for further details.

Person specification

Qualifications and knowledge

Essential criteria

Foundation degree (Nursing Associate) registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
Basic Life Support (BLS)
GCSE Maths and English

Experience

Essential criteria

Understanding of NMC Code of Conduct
Knowledge of current urology nursing issues
Knowledge of scope of professional practice

Desirable criteria

Experience working in the field of Urology
Awareness of current outpatient nursing targets

Skills

Essential criteria

Good IT skills
Problem solving skills
Excellent communication skills
Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
Demonstrable evidence of delivering quality patient care
Ability to work under pressure in a busy environment and be motivated
Demonstrate understanding of the requirement of the role

Personal and people development

Essential criteria

Team player
Motivated
Professional
Evidence of personal development

Communication

Essential criteria

Good verbal and written communication skills
Approachable manner

We believe success lies in the diversity of our employees and are committed to promoting equality, encouraging diversity and embracing inclusion. We welcome applications from everyone interested in working for us.

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

MKUH uses identification scanning technology to confirm the authenticity of documents; all prospective employees of MKUH will have their original documents verified using this technology.

By applying for this role, you accept if successful, that information from your application will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) system. Your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which aims at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Natalie Austin
Job title: Surgical Matron
Email address: [email protected]

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Job summary

Employer heading

Nursing Associate

Band 4

Job overview

Main duties of the job

Working for our organisation

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Person specification

Qualifications and knowledge

Essential criteria

Experience

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria

Skills

Essential criteria

Personal and people development

Essential criteria

Communication

Essential criteria

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

Documents to download

Further details / informal visits contact

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