Staff Nurse - Acute Assessment Unit

Job Overview

Are you an experienced or newly qualified Nurse looking to take the next step in your career? If so, this is the perfect opportunity for you!

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking passionate and motivated nurses to join the Acute Assessment Unit (AAU) nursing team at Wexham Park Hospital.

About The Acute Assessment Unit (AAU)

A 34-bedded unit with 5 bays and 14 side rooms.

Receives patients directly from the Emergency Department across multiple specialities, including medicine, respiratory, cardiology, frailty, and surgery.

A fast-paced environment with a strong multi-disciplinary team, including pharmacy, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, and discharge coordinators.

Why Join Us?

Ideal for Newly Qualified Nurses: Gain hands-on experience and put your knowledge into practice.

Development Opportunities: Ward-based training and further education support through local universities.

Supportive Environment: Work alongside Practice Development Sisters who provide training and guidance.

Career Growth: A great opportunity to build skills in a dynamic and supportive setting.

If you're ready to grow within your nursing career in a high-energy, collaborative environment, we’d love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

• To be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care with minimal supervision.
• To implement and be responsible for maintaining high standards of patient care.
• To carry out all administrative and nursing duties as delegated by the team leader and senior sister.
• To organise and deploy staff according to their competence to meet patients’ needs.
• To demonstrate a sound knowledge of infection control standards and promote these within the ward environment
• To refer to other disciplines utilising the Trusts electronic systems i.e. “Patient Centre” and “real time”.
• To assist in promotion of health
  
  

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

• Registered General Nurse
• Current (or pending) NMC Registration
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Degree level registration
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Recent experience within an acute medical nursing environment
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Post registration experience
  
  

Skills

Essential criteria

• Self-motivated and uses own initiative
• Able to work as an effective team member
• Awareness of current professional nursing issues
• Ability to manage change within the working environment
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to manage difficult / stressful situations
  
  

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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