Staff Nurse - MIDU

England, United Kingdom

7/22/2025

Job Overview

The Medical Investigation Day Unit (MIDU) at Wexham Park Hospital is seeking a motivated and compassionate Staff Nurse to join our committed nursing team. In this role, you will play a key part in delivering high-quality, patient-centred care by assessing individual needs and planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care in accordance with Trust policies and the NMC Code of Conduct.

Operating Monday to Friday from 8:00am to 4:00pm, MIDU supports patients from a wide range of medical specialties—many of whom require regular attendance and ongoing support. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your skills in a dynamic, multidisciplinary environment, working closely with consultants, doctors, and specialist nurses to ensure seamless care delivery and to support your continued professional growth.

Main duties of the job

Main Duties

Assess and monitor individual patient care needs, developing and delivering appropriate care plans.

Provide evidence-based, high-quality nursing care, ensuring patient safety and comfort.

Communicate effectively with patients, relatives, and multidisciplinary team members, including delivering sensitive information when required.

Maintain accurate and up-to-date nursing records and documentation.

Support patients undergoing complex procedures.

Act as a role model and mentor, supporting and supervising junior staff and students.

Participate in mandatory training, clinical audits, and continuous professional development.

Assist with shift organisation and ensure compliance with Trust policies, including health and safety and infection control.

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

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Effective communication skills (written & verbal)
• Ability to work without direct supervision
• Good interpersonal skills
• Able to work in a team
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Ability to adapt to change within working situations
  
  

Special Requirements

Essential criteria

• Flexible shifts
• To work in other areas of the Department and Trust when required
  
  

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Current NMC Registration
• Evidence of recent continuous professional development
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Competent in IV therapy/ phlebotomy/ cannulation and administration of IV medications
• Competent in administration of oral medications
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Proven experience in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating patient care within a clinical nursing environment
• Experience working effectively as part of a multidisciplinary healthcare team, maintaining high standards of patient care and communication
  
  

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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