Staff Nurse - Elderly Care

Job Overview

We are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic nurse to support our team on Older Persons Medicine - Ward 7, Ward 8, and Acute Frailty Unit.

We pride ourselves in delivering excellent care and quality care.

We are looking for nurses who can think on their feet and tolerate working in a busy ward environment and know how to priorities their delivery of care.

Main duties of the job

Exciting opportunities have arisen at Frimley Health Elderly Care ward, at Wexham Park Hospital.

Our Elderly Care ward is looking to invest in you!

Are you an experienced or newly qualified nurse with an interest and passion in looking after Elderly Patients?

If yes, then come and join our Older Persons Medicine. Our dynamic and patient centred team are here to provide the quality care our patients deserve.

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 (first or second level)
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Evidence of high standards of patient care.
  
  

Skills

Essential criteria

• Effective communication skills (written & verbal).
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Ability to adapt to change within working situations.
  
  

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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