Job Overview The Parkside Suite Wexham is a Private Patient Unit situated within Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust. It offers high standards of care with 15 in-patient rooms and 2 Outpatient rooms. We are currently seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic Staff nurse, who is looking for a stimulating and challenging environment to join our supportive and friendly team. You should enjoy working as part of a team and demonstrate excellent customer care and communication skills. We are a mixed speciality ward therefore can offer excellent learning opportunities. Applications from newly qualified nurses welcomed. Main duties of the job Responsible for the assessment of patient care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care without supervision. To participate and assist in systematic monitoring and evaluation of nursing practice. To participate and assist in setting standards of patient care based on sound evidence-based findings, implementing these into practice. Ensure that the nursing practices of the area comply with the Trust’s Nursing policies and procedures and maintain high standards of nursing practice. To comply at all times with the NMC Code of Conduct. Communicate effectively and liaise with all health care staff as appropriate. To encourage and maintain good relationship with Medical Staff and other members of the Primary Care and Social Services teams in order to provide the best care. To support the implementation and maintenance of Team Nursing within the clinical area, taking responsibility for a designated caseload of patients. Within this system of case management, co-ordinate and monitor the progress of patients along their critical pathway, reporting any variance from the pathway. Take responsibility for co-ordinating individual patient’s journey from admission to discharge. To maintain an excellent working knowledge of the equipment used within the department, ensuring that it is in safe working order. Day to day you will be assisting patients, providing support to areas with high demand, and providing quality nursing. 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. Frimley Health Trust benefits on Vimeo Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities Further information regarding the responsibilities and candidate requirements can be found in the attached Job Description and Person Specification. Person specification Qualifications Essential criteria Current first or second-level NMC Registration. Evidence of continuous Professional Development. Desirable criteria Teaching certificate. Post basic certificate. Experience Essential criteria General medical/or surgical experience either as qualified or student nurse Desirable criteria Experience working within a private patient setting. Skills Essential criteria Effective Communication skills Effective verbal skills Able to assess, plan and implement high quality nursing care 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. Apply online now