Staff Nurse - Critical Care

Frimley, England, United Kingdom

8/7/2025

Job Overview

Are you an experienced nurse looking to either change direction, or develop and grow within your career?

• We are excited to offer a 12 month secondment opportunity in Frimley Critical Care. This is an excellent chance for a motivated band 5 staff nurse to join our supportive and dynamic team.
• We are one Trust with 3 hospital sites across Frimley, Ascot and Slough
  
  

Whether you're looking to broaden your clinical experience, develop specialist skills, or explore a new area within nursing, this role offers valuable exposure to a high-acuity environment and strong multidisciplinary collaboration.

Frimley Park Critical Care Unit has 12 beds consisting of a mixture of ITU/HDU patients (Level 3 and Level 2). We care for a wide range of patients with complex needs across medical and surgical specialties, including post-operative, emergency, post primary coronary intervention providing varied services as mechanical support ( IABP, hemofiltration). Our education programmes, supported by our practice education team, aim to provide staff of all grades with the essential knowledge and skills required to work on our busy, friendly unit.

Successful applicants will receive a structured induction and training pathway tailored to critical care nursing.

Main duties of the job

Under the supervision of the nurse in charge the post holder will be responsible for delivering safe, effective, and evidence based nursing care to critically ill patients (Level 1 - Level 3).

Monitor, assess, implement and evaluate individual patient care in partnership with the patient, family, and multidisciplinary team.

Safely manage the use of complex monitoring equipment, infusions, and ventilation systems.

The post holder will work as part of a team and be accountable for the total provision, organization and direction of the nursing care for the patients in their care.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation trust was established on 1st October 2014 following the merger of Frimley Park Hospital Foundation Trust, Heatherwood and Wexham Park NHS Foundation Trusts. The Trust compasses of these three main sites.

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.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• Be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care of the critically ill patient (L1-L3) under the supervision of the band 6 and band 7critical care nurses.
• Participate in the setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of patient care.
• To actively support in the promotion of health.
• Demonstrate a sound knowledge of infection control standards and promote these within unit environment.
• To participate in and set standards of patient care based on sound research findings.
• To participate and assist in the systematic monitoring and evaluation of nursing care.
• Provide legible and comprehensive patient records to agreed Trust and NMC standards and guidelines.
• To liaise with Team Leader on untoward incidents, complaints and Team/Staff issues.
• To act in accordance with trust policies and nursing procedures.
• To maintain your own personal profile.
  
  

For a full list of responsibilities, please see the attached job description.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• RGN level 1 or level 2
• Current NMC registration
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Mentorship qualification
• I.V training
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Relevant post-registration experience
• Current or previous experience in hospital based care environment
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Acute ward experience
• Working with multi-disciplinary teams
  
  

Skills

Essential criteria

• Effective communication skills (written and verbal)
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to manage difficult / stressful situations
• Self motivated and uses own initiative
  
  

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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