Staff Nurse - Hale ward

Job Overview

Exciting opportunities have arisen to join the dedicated team on Hale Ward. We are committed to investing in your development and offering a supportive environment where you can thrive. This role is offered as a 12-month fixed-term contract with the potential to become substantive.

We are seeking a dynamic and enthusiastic nurse to work alongside our friendly and skilled team, where we pride ourselves on delivering high-quality care and rehabilitation. The role involves working within a fast-paced ward environment, caring for a complex caseload of elderly patients. You will be expected to demonstrate excellent prioritisation skills, work collaboratively as part of the multidisciplinary team, and contribute to safe and effective discharge planning.

This post requires participation in a 7-day service rota, covering a mix of long days and night shifts.

Please note, this role is suitable for Newly Qualified Nurses, including those due to qualify in the coming months

Main duties of the job

Are you an experienced or newly qualified nurse with an interest and passion in looking after Elderly Patients?

If so then come and join Our dynamic and patient centred team are here to provide the quality care our patients deserve.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) take pride in delivering excellent care to our patients by investing in our staff and providing a value based culture and learning environment that you can flourish in.

At FHFT we are committed to developing our staff. As a result you will be given the opportunity to enhance your career development via preceptorship and full induction, along with having a well-established practice development team including a specialist team to ensure our staff feels fully equipped and supported in their role.

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. Whether you use our services or are just visiting you can expect us to be committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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 NMC Registration (first or second level)
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Evidence of high standards of patient care.
  
  

Skills

Essential criteria

• Effective communication skills (written & verbal).
• Ability to work without direct supervision.
• Good interpersonal skills
• Able to work in a team
• Awareness of current professional nursing issues
• An interest in Primary Nursing, Nursing Research and Health Promotion
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Ability to adapt to change within working situations.
  
  

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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