Job Overview
Are you a due to qualify, newly qualified, experienced or a return to practice Nurse looking to develop, grow or change the direction of your career?
If yes, then Frimley Health Foundation Trust is your employer of choice!
We are looking for staff nurses to join our team we have moved into our exciting newly build wards encompassing Respiratory Medicine, Rheumatology and General Medicine.
From day one we work hard to make sure you feel welcome, supported and valued. Creating a tailored individual development plan means you really can follow the path you choose – whether that’s pursuing your current interests or branching off into a whole new field.
We offer a structured career pathway to follow, with our full support to progress in your career and gaining further qualifications.
For newly qualified nurses the Trust has a well-established preceptorship programme and this is supported by competency-based learning on the ward.
Our Nursing teams also benefit from a strong support framework and a positive approach to flexible working in order to help our staff achieve a healthy work/ life balance.
Please specify your preferred clinical area of interest/Site location in the first line of your supporting statement.
Main duties of the job
* To be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care with minimal supervision.
* To implement and be responsible for maintaining high standards of patient care.
* To carry out all administrative and nursing duties as delegated by the team leader and senior sister
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 (or pending) NMC Registration
Desirable criteria
* Dementia course or study days
Experience
Essential criteria
* Recent experience within a medical nursing environment
* Working as part of team in a demanding environment
Desirable criteria
* Previous experience managing patients with chronic medical conditions
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Effective communication skills (written and verbal)
* Good interpersonal skills with the ability to manage difficult / stressful situations
* Able to prioritise workload (self and others) and meet deadlines
* Awareness of current professional nursing issues
Special Requirements
Essential criteria
* To work in other areas of the department when required
* Able to work flexible shifts, weekends and bank holidays as required
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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