Nursing Associate at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

The job at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Nursing associates carry out clinical tasks such as venepuncture, ECGs and recording clinical observations including blood pressure, temperature, respirations and pulse, while maintaining patients' privacy, dignity and safety and supporting them through difficult news. They bridge the gap between healthcare support workers and registered nurses, working alongside both across all four fields of nursing practice. Nursing associates hold a distinct part of the NMC register from registered nurses, and it is a criminal offence to falsely claim the title in England, though the title is not legally protected in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. Registered nursing associates can progress to become registered nurses via a shortened apprenticeship route that recognises their prior learning and experience. Patients across all four nursing fields, working alongside healthcare support workers and registered nurses.

At a specialist trust such as Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, that work means a concentrated specialist caseload, referred in from a wide area because the care needed is beyond what a district general hospital provides. Posts here are more often specialist from appointment than rotational, and some specialist centres recruit at band 6 where the work requires prior experience. Across the profession as a whole, nursing associates work in settings including acute hospitals, community settings, mental health facilities, care homes and hospices — an organisation of this type will run some of those services and not others, which is why two posts with the same job title in the same city can be very different jobs.

Pay is not an employer decision. Agenda for Change is negotiated nationally and set separately in each of the four nations, so Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust pays band 4 exactly what every other NHS employer in England pays it: £28,392 at the bottom of the band on the 2026/27 scale. What genuinely differs between two employers is the caseload, how rotations are structured, how much protected time you get for supervision and continuing professional development, how much band 6 progression is built into the establishment, and how far you travel between sites. Those are the questions worth asking at interview.

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