Job Overview
The Surgery and Urology Emergency Unit (SEU) is a busy assessment and treatment area, seeing over 900 patients each month. The unit provides emergency assessment and care for patients referred by the Emergency Department (ED), GP surgeries, outpatient clinics, and specialist nurses.
The SEU Is Equipped With
* 4 patient trolleys
* 5 patient treatment chairs
* 2 assessment rooms
* Dedicated chairs for initial patient assessment
Patients Are Rapidly Assessed By The Surgical Or Urology Teams, With Decisions Made Regarding Treatment And Next Steps. Following Assessment, Patients Are Either
* Discharged home, if no further intervention is required, or
* Admitted to an inpatient ward, if ongoing care or surgical input is needed.
The SEU plays a vital role in providing timely emergency surgical and urological care, ensuring patients receive the right treatment in the right place.
Main duties of the job
Key Tasks & Responsibilities
* Manage a team of emergency surgical patients.
* Maintain flow of patients through the SAU SDEC with support from NIC
* Supporting the sisters and Senior Sister
* Attending team meetings
* Maintain safe standards including daily safety checks.
* always Act as a professional role model.
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
* The candidate will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, good organisational skills, able to plan own work but also effectively within a team.
* Ability to prioritise and make sound decisions sometimes under pressure, confident to perform on the ward.
* The candidate will be expected to manage a group of patients and liaise bed managers, Doctors and other members of the MDT team.
* The candidate will lead by example and challenge anyone that isn’t working towards the Trusts Values or clinical policies. You will make yourself available to visitors/patients and help resolve any concerns at a ward level if possibly; otherwise, you will support them in escalating their concerns via the appropriate routes.
* You should work closely with the doctors and prompt them to review/ make decisions on patients care and prompt appropriate discharge planning.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Degree or Diploma in Adult Nursing.
* NMC registered.
* Evidence of professional development.
Experience
Essential criteria
* Previous surgical experience in an acute hospital.
* Competent in venepuncture and cannulation or working towards.
Desirable criteria
* Acute Surgical experience
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
* excellent customer care
* Effective written and verbal communication skills
* Ability to work within a team and independently
* Assertive & Confident
* Polite and courteous
* Good decision making skills
* Organised
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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