Staff Nurse - Discharge Lounge

Frimley, England, United Kingdom

7/10/2025

Job Overview

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

This is a key role supporting patient flow and capacity across the hospital. As part of a well-established and growing team, you will be responsible for providing high-quality nursing care to patients who are medically fit and awaiting discharge. You will work both independently and collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to ensure patients are safely and efficiently transferred to the Discharge Lounge, helping to streamline the discharge process.

The successful candidate will demonstrate excellent communication, organisational, and clinical skills, along with a flexible and proactive approach to patient care. You will be working in a dynamic environment that requires the ability to prioritise and respond to the changing needs of the service.

This role provides a fantastic opportunity to be part of a supportive team committed to patient-centred care and continuous service improvement. If you are looking for a new challenge and the chance to make a real impact on patient flow and experience, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will play a key role in promoting and facilitating the safe and effective use of the Discharge Lounge.
• They will be responsible for identifying patients who are clinically appropriate for transfer, liaising closely with ward teams and multidisciplinary staff to ensure timely and appropriate referrals.
• The role involves actively encouraging ward staff to utilise the Lounge as part of the hospital’s discharge planning process, helping to improve patient flow and bed availability.
• The post holder will ensure that all patients transferred to the Lounge have a confirmed discharge plan in place, and that their safety, dignity, and ongoing care needs are consistently maintained.
• They will also provide direct nursing care and supervision while patients await discharge, acting as a point of contact for relatives, transport teams, and community services.
• This position requires excellent communication skills, sound clinical judgement, and a flexible, proactive approach to supporting patient-centred care.
  
  

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

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Current UK NMC registration
• Evidence of recent continuous professional development
  
  

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
• 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
  
  

Special Requirements

Essential criteria

• Flexible approach to work. Happy to adapt to work in other areas within the capacity team when service demands.
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Recent experience within an acute NHS healthcare 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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