Staff Nurse

Staff Nurse

Job Overview

We have exciting full and part-time opportunities for Surgical, Newly Qualified, or any Registered Nurses who have a keen interest in Surgery to join our dynamic team on Ward 11.

Ward 11 is a 23 bedded ward caring for patients under different specialties which include: - General Surgery, Urology, ENT and Plastics.

You must have a keen interest or experience within a surgical field. You must also be committed to excellence with a friendly, positive attitude, and be an active team member.

We Can Offer You

- Comprehensive induction with the trust
- Minimum 2 weeks supernumerary status
- Dedicated support from the Surgical Practice Development Nurse to provide on the job clinical support.






- Mentorship to support your development on the ward
- Support to undertake further education for career and role development, including various study days, an in-house surgical module, and University courses

Main duties of the job

Responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care without supervision. To assist in the monitoring of performance and work of the Nursing Team, providing education and support as appropriate. To regularly take charge of the shift, managing the shift as safely and effectively as possible.

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

- Responsible for the assessment of patient care need, the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care without supervision.
- To participate and assist in systematic monitoring and evaluation of nursing practice.






- To participate and assist in setting standards of patient care based on sound evidence-based findings, implementing these into practice.
- Ensure that the nursing practices of the area comply with the Trust’s Nursing policies and procedures and maintain high standards of nursing practice.
- To comply at all times with the NMC Code of Conduct.
- Communicate effectively and liaise with all health care staff as appropriate.
- To encourage and maintain good relationship with Medical Staff and other members of the Primary care & Social Services teams in order to provide the best care.
- To support the implementation and maintenance of Team Nursing within the clinical area, taking responsibility for a caseload of patients. Within this system of case management,





co-ordinate and monitor the progress of patients along their clinical pathway, reporting any variance from the pathway. Take named responsibility for co-ordinating individual patient discharge.
- To participate in Quality Assurance initiatives within the unit, implementing action as a result of these initiatives.
- Consolidate and extend own clinical skills in all aspects of nursing, furthering own professional knowledge in a rapidly changing environment
- To ensure that all issues relating to the implementation of clinical governance are addressed on the unit. This includes maintaining and reviewing the standards of care on a regular basis, implementing changes to improve the service where necessary following complaints,





ensuring systems are in place to manage all risk and to regulate professional practice. All staff must be made aware of their own individual responsibilities as regards clinical governance.
- Where issues of clinical competence are identified, inform the Ward Senior Sister.
- Pro-actively respond to potential complaints, to prevent formal complaints from occurring.

Person specification

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Essential criteria

- UK qualified nurse

Desirable criteria

- Recently qualified considered

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Essential criteria

- Surgical experience

Desirable criteria

- Surgical wound skills

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Essential criteria

- Acute nursing experience

Desirable criteria

- Acute clinical skills

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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