Staff Nurse - Discharge Lounge

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust; Frimley; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a self-motivated Staff Nurse to join the Discharge Lounge team at a leading NHS Foundation Trust. The role involves delivering high-quality patient care, supporting ward staff, and ensuring patient safety during discharge. The ideal candidate will have recent experience in an acute NHS setting and effective communication skills. Join a well-established team dedicated to improving health services for the community.

Qualifications

• Current UK NMC registration required.
• Recent experience in an acute NHS healthcare setting within the last 2 years.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality patient care to patients and relatives.
• Promote and identify patients suitable for transfer to Discharge Lounge.
• Work as part of a team and use own initiative.

Skills

Effective communication skills

Effective time management

Awareness of current professional nursing issues

Effective IT skills

Education

Nursing Degree

Tools

MS Office

Clinical patient information systems

Job description

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Job Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a enthusiastic, self motivated and forward thinking Staff nurse to join our team in the Discharge Lounge based at Frimley Park Hospital.

Working with a well established team , which are currently in the process of expanding the post holder will be able to work independently, also with other team members to transfer patients to the Discharge Lounge to support with capacity and flow.

Main duties of the job

To promote and identify patients that are suitable to transfer to our new Discharge Lounge and support and encourage ward staff to utilise the Lounge and ensure patients safety and care is adhered too through the discharge planning process.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

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.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• To deliver high quality patient care to patients and relatives.
• To communicate effectively with patients and their relatives.
• To demonstrate the ability to asses, monitor & implement care. Developing techniques & skills.
• To have a working knowledge of Health and safety regulations.
• To participate in departmental meetings, helping initiate new ideas.
• To work well as part of a team and also work using own initiative, building new working relationships.
  
  

For a full list of responsibilities, please see the attached job description.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Current UK NMC registration
• Evidence of recent continuous professional development
• Recent experience (within the last 2 years) within an acute NHS healthcare setting
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Educated to Nursing Degree level or working towards degree pathway
  
  

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Effective communication skills (written and verbal)
• Effective time management, prioritisation and delegation skills
• Awareness of current professional nursing issues
• Evidence of Band 5 generic clinical competencies
• Effective It skills: MS office, windows, outlook e-mail, experience with using clinical patient information systems
• Able to prioritise workload and manage a specific clinical area
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Previous experience of working within a Discharge Lounge
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• 2 Years of working in a hospital setting
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Previous experience of working with a Discharge Lounge
  
  

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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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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