We are looking for an enthusiastic Staff Nurse to join our Main Outpatient Department at Heatherwood Hospital. The department provides a wide range of services for both adult and paediatric patients, operating seven days a week (Monday to Sunday) from 08:00 to 18:00. This is a permanent role within a dynamic and supportive team.
Our department is spread across five zones, offering a variety of clinical consultation and procedure rooms to meet the diverse needs of our patients. We are committed to delivering accessible, high-quality, evidence-based, and patient-centred care to ensure the best possible outcomes for every individual we support.
*Please note, this role is suitable for Newly Qualified Nurses, including those due to qualify in the coming months*
• To assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care working as a member of the team under the direction of the NIC.
• To be responsible for the organising and co-ordination of nursing services in the department in the absence of senior staff on a regular basis.
• To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
• To be responsible for all nursing care standards and to maintain high clinical standards.
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which:
- engages, enables, and empowers others.
- uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and
- facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
• To be accountable as a prominent role model, leading by example, demonstrating diverse expert clinical skills, clear professional and organisational values while overseeing the OPD areas.
• Taking responsibility for the planning, practice and evaluation of nursing care ensuring that the highest standard and quality of nursing care is delivered.
• To work with the clinical nurse specialists and wider MDT in developing and providing specialised nursing care programmes to a diverse range of patients and to ensure support to carers.
• Ensure the highest standard and quality of nursing care is delivered.
• Participate in clinical activity.
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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For further information regarding the detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the attached job description and person specification documents.
This advert closes on Sunday 5 Oct 2025