Job Overview
Make a Difference – Every Day Counts
We are offering an exciting opportunity for a committed and compassionate
Registered Nurse to join our innovative
Frailty Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) team on a full-time, fixed-term basis.
Working 37.5 hours per week working across 7 days from 08:30-18:30 - 4 days per week
We are offering an exciting opportunity for a passionate and committed Registered Nurse with ideally a background in Emergency care, or SDEC experience to join the Frailty SDEC team on a secondment ending the 31st of March 2026. This full-time role is ideal for a nurse seeking a role which requires flexibility in a fast paced, same day emergency care environment.
This is a rewarding role for nurses who are passionate about delivering holistic, patient-centred care in a fast-paced environment. Whether you're already experienced in emergency care or looking to gain valuable experience in SDEC, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
As a key member of the
Frailty SDEC team, you’ll provide high-quality nursing care to older adults presenting with frailty syndromes. You’ll work closely with Emergency Department colleagues to proactively identify and manage patients, contributing to comprehensive geriatric assessments and the creation of supportive management plans.
You Will Be Responsible For
- The assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of nursing care
- Supporting shift coordination to ensure safe, efficient, and effective care delivery
- Collaborating with multidisciplinary colleagues including geriatricians, GPs, physiotherapists, and pharmacists
- Acting as a key link between primary, secondary and social care to reduce unnecessary admissions and support safe discharge planning
You will help promote admission avoidance, reduce hospital length of stay, and support early intervention for individuals living with frailty.
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
We’re seeking a nurse who:
- Is a Registered Nurse (NMC registered) with clinical experience—preferably in emergency care or SDEC
- Is confident managing complex patient needs and developing individualised care plans
- Demonstrates excellent communication, teamwork, and organisational skills
- Can work autonomously while contributing to a wider multidisciplinary team
- Is committed to delivering evidence-based, person-centred care and continuous service improvement
Training and support will be provided to help you grow and succeed in this role.
See Job Description And Person Specification For Further Details
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered General Nurse
- Current NMC registration
Desirable criteria
- Teaching certificate, SLIP, mentorship preparation for healthcare
Exoerience
Essential criteria
- Experience in caring for a variety of acute medical conditions
- previous experience triaging emergency and acute medical patients
- Experience in older people medicine
Desirable criteria
- Emergency care or SDEC experience preferred, but not essential
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- 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
- Ability to train and supervise junior staff
Desirable criteria
- Ability to manage same day emergency care
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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