A nurse after time with worker and follower (9)
I believe the answer is:
attendant
'follower' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'a nurse after time with worker' is the wordplay.
'nurse' becomes 'tend' (I've seen this before**).
'after' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'time' becomes 't'.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'worker' becomes 'ant' (worker is a type of ant).
'tend' after 't' is 'ttend'.
'a'+'ttend'+'ant'='ATTENDANT'
'and' is the link.
(Other definitions for attendant that I've seen before include "Related" , "One who helps" , "Lady-in-waiting" , "One who waits upon" , "escort" .)