Staff Nurse

Job Overview

Come and join our amazing Ward 5 team as a Staff Nurse

Ward 5 is a 36 bedded Endocrine and Medical ward serving 24 hour nursing care to all our patients. We have a brilliant and friendly team of nurses, carers, consultants, doctors, housekeepers and ward host/hostess.

We are well supported by our multi-disciplinary team consisting of our dedicated discharge coordinator, hard-working physiotherapists and occupational therapists, dedicated dietician and speech & language therapist, who will work with you, your patients and your patient's family or carers.

We also work hand in hand with the diabetes nursing team, tissue viability specialist nursing team, amputee rehabilitation team, vascular team and the foot care team.

Main duties of the job

Responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care without direct supervision. To work as part of a team of nurses, health care assistants, doctors and multi-disciplinary team e.g. diabetic specialist nurses, OT, PT, TVN, podiatry, etc and be responsible for the assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating of nursing care of our patients.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Current NMC Registration
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Diabetes Course
• Mentorship course or similar
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Some post registration experience
• Experience of managing patients with chronic medical conditions
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience in caring for Endocrine/Diabetic patients
  
  

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Self-motivated and uses own initiative
• Able to work as an effective team member
• Ability to manage change within the working environment
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to manage difficult / stressful situations
• Able to train and supervise Junior staff
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Nurse in charge competency
• EPIC familiar or IT skills
  
  

Special Requirements

Essential criteria

• To work in other areas of the department when required
• Able to work flexible shifts, weekends and bank holidays as required
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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