Job summary
The East Lancashire Alliance is recruiting a Nurse Associate to join the team within the Hyndburn Central PCN.
This role will involve proactively engaging with people who may experience poorer health outcomes or difficulty accessing conventional healthcare services. The postholder will recognise the impact that wider determinants such as housing, employment, income, education, social isolation, trauma and access to services can have on physical and mental health.
Salary: Band 4
Contract: 2-year fixed term
Working pattern: Part-time
Location: Acorn Centre, 421 Blackburn Road, Accrington, BB5 1RT
Main duties of the role
The post holder will be responsible for for delivering evidence-based, high-quality, patient-centred and compassionate care to individuals accessing community-based support through Maundy Relief.
A central purpose of the role is to improve access to healthcare and health outcomes for people within Core20PLUS and locally identified inclusion health groups.
The Nursing Associate will proactively engage people who may experience poorer health outcomes or difficulty accessing conventional healthcare services, including:
- People living in the most deprived communities.
- People experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity.
- People experiencing poverty or financial hardship.
- Vulnerable migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.
- People with severe mental illness.
- People with learning disabilities.
- People affected by drug or alcohol dependency.
- People experiencing social isolation.
- People who do not routinely engage with primary care.
- People experiencing multiple or complex health and social needs.
- Other locally identified populations experiencing significant health inequalities.
About us
East Lancashire Alliance (ELA) is a not-for-profit community interest company providing services to our GP practice members and offering a portfolio of patient services. All our clinical services are led by clinical leads who work as part of a team with Federation managers.
To apply
You can find further information about this role – including a full job description – and submit your application via NHS Jobs
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The closing date is 12th October 2026