22 Oct
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Frimley
Job Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic, enthusiastic, and highly motivated registered nurse with a varied clinical experience to join the senior Outpatient team.
The Outpatient team are passionate about constantly improving our service and delivering high quality care to our patients.
We are looking for committed individuals with excellent organisational and leadership skills. Excellent interpersonal skills are required to lead and support the team and to undertake a wide range of administrative duties in tandem with clinical duties.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will demonstrate criteria set out in the Job Description and Person Specification.
Experience working in an outpatient clinic setting would be an advantage but not essential.
The candidate will be based in either the Frimley South onsite team or the offsite team, but we work as one team, and the role covers all our locations in Frimley South. Frimley South Outpatients has three main sites, Aldershot Centre for Health, Fleet Community Hospital and Frimley Park Hospital. Sites are operational between 0800 -1830 hrs Monday to Saturday.
The Outpatient team support multiple speciality clinics such as Oncology, Rheumatology, Breast, Orthopaedics, Allergy, Gastroenterology and Colorectal clinics. The onsite team also support the ENT and Cardiology departments as well as one stop Urology clinics and Dermatology Minor Operations.
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.
Frimley Health Trust benefits on Vimeo
Purpose Of Job
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide Band 5 cover for a 6-day service at designated Frimley Health Outpatient locations as required, co-ordinating capacity and flow within the departments.
- To adhere to the standards outlined in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and RN competencies.
- To work as a member of the nursing team, under the direction of the OPD Senior team to provide the highest quality of competent, integrated nursing care and patient pathways within the department, supported by FH strategy, Values, policies and procedures.
- To ensure continuity of nursing care by using effective communication with the multidisciplinary team by using various platforms of communication.
- To be a dynamic, enthusiastic, highly motivated, visible, professional, and clinical role model for others.
- Inspiring others,
facilitating change using a range of strategies that demonstrate excellence in nursing practice, empathy, and professionalism.
- To support, supervise and assess all learners, students, temporary, new, and junior staff within the departments.
- Collaborate with Practice Development to assess, actively support, and facilitate health care support workers in practicing competently and advancing in their roles.
- Consolidate, enhance, and broaden own knowledge and clinical skills proficiency, furthering own professional development.
- To deputise for department sister in their absence.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- - RGN with current UK NMC registration.
- - Supporting Learners in Practice (SLIP) or similar recognised qualification
Desirable criteria
- - Educated to Nursing Degree level. or on degree pathway.
- - Level 6 leadership course.
experiance
Essential criteria
- - Recent experience (within the last 2 years) within an acute NHS healthcare setting
Desirable criteria
- - Experience within an Outpatients setting.
Knowledge and skills
Essential criteria
- - Effective communication skills (written and verbal).
- Ability to manage difficult/ stressful situations, working calmly and effectively under pressure.
- - Able to supervise and assess learners and junior staff.
- - Effective team leader skills.
- - Ability to manage change within the working environment
Desirable criteria
- - Evidence of proven leadership experience
- - Evidence of OPD specific clinical competencies
Knowledge and skills
Essential criteria
- - Able and willing to work flexible shifts across sites including weekends and Bank Holidays
- - Ability to drive between sites as required.
- Able to stand for long periods
- - Up to date with mandatory and statutory training within current role
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.
Apply online now
Show more Show less