Staff Nurse - Discharge Lounge

Job Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, self-motivated and forward-thinking Staff Nurse to join our expanding Discharge Lounge team at Frimley Park Hospital.

The Discharge Lounge plays a vital role in supporting patient flow and hospital capacity, ensuring patients are safely and efficiently transferred once they are ready to leave the ward. As a Staff Nurse, you will work both independently and collaboratively with the wider multidisciplinary team to provide high-quality, safe, and compassionate care throughout the discharge process.

We welcome applications from newly qualified nurses graduating from UK Universities who are starting their careers this year. At FHFT you will be supported through a comprehensive preceptorship programme, mentoring, and ongoing development to help you thrive in your new role. If you’re compassionate, committed, and eager to learn, we encourage you to apply and begin your journey with us

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for promoting the use of the Discharge Lounge by identifying suitable patients, supporting and encouraging ward staff to utilise the service, and ensuring that every patient’s needs are met during their transition. This role requires excellent communication, clinical judgment, and organisational skills, alongside a proactive approach to problem-solving in a fast-paced environment.

This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a supportive and well-established team that is continuing to grow, where your contributions will directly enhance patient experience and hospital flow.

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

• To deliver high quality patient care to patients and relatives.
• To communicate effectively with patients and their relatives.
• To demonstrate the ability to asses, monitor & implement care. Developing techniques & skills.
• To have a working knowledge of Health and safety regulations.
• To participate in departmental meetings, helping initiate new ideas.
• To work well as part of a team and also work using own initiative, building new working relationships.
  
  

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

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Current UK NMC registration
• Evidence of recent continuous professional development
• Recent experience within an acute NHS healthcare setting
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Educated to Nursing Degree level or working towards degree pathway
  
  

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Effective communication skills (written and verbal)
• Effective time management, prioritisation and delegation skills
• Awareness of current professional nursing issues
• Evidence of Band 5 generic clinical competencies
• Effective It skills: MS office, windows, outlook e-mail, experience with using clinical patient information systems
• Able to prioritise workload and manage a specific clinical area
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Previous experience of working within a Discharge Lounge
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working in a hospital setting
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Previous experience of working with a Discharge Lounge
  
  

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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