Staff Nurse - Emergency Department

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust; Frimley; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare provider as a Staff Nurse in the Emergency Department at Frimley Park Hospital. Contribute to high-quality patient care while enjoying flexible working patterns and robust professional development opportunities. Ideal for dedicated nurses seeking to make a difference.

Benefits

Flexible working patterns

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Post qualification experience in an acute setting.
• Evidence of dealing with difficult situations.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality patient care to patients & relatives.
• Support shift leader with documentation and patient condition.
• Advocate for patients and their relatives/carers.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Time Management

Education

Registered Nurse

Job description

Job Overview

Join Our Team as a Staff Nurse in the Emergency Department at Frimley Park Hospital!

Are you a dedicated and passionate nurse eager to contribute to high-quality patient care? We are looking for enthusiastic Staff Nurses to join our multi-disciplinary team in the Emergency Department.

As a key member of our team, you will have the opportunity to take on responsibilities across various areas of clinical practice, ensuring the delivery of exceptional care. We are committed to supporting your professional growth through ongoing development and in-house training, helping you gain invaluable experience while caring for a diverse patient mix.

With modernised facilities and a strong focus on patient care, now is an exciting time to join us! We offer full-time and part-time positions with rotational day and night shifts. If you prefer late shifts, twilight, or night shifts to suit your work-life balance, we welcome your application.

Previous Ward-based Experience Is Required For This Role.

Come and be a part of a team that makes a real difference every day!

Main duties of the job

• To work within a multi-disciplinary team, in the delivery of high-quality patient care to patients & relatives.
• Support shift leader ensuring that all documentation is up to date and report any changes in the patients’ condition.
• To contribute to the development and evaluation of nursing practice.
• To demonstrate effective communication skills both written and verbal between patients and members of the multi-disciplinary team.
• To communicate effectively with patients and their relatives.
• To advise on the promotion of health & prevention of illness.
• To liaise with appropriate clinical specialists in relation to individual patient needs
  
  

e.g. Doctors, Occupational therapists, physiotherapists and In Reach matrons. To assist medical staff, ensure that treatments are effective and advise on nursing priorities.

• To promote good working relationships with the ambulance service, police and other supporting agencies.
• To act as an advocate for patients and their relatives/carers.
• To communicate to colleague’s individual need for support (through preceptorship programme)
  
  

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 NMC registration
• Registered Nurse
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Mentor /Preceptor course
• Module in emergency care nursing
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Post qualification experience in an acute setting
• Evidence of dealing with difficult situations in an appropriate manner
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Emergency nursing experience
  
  

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Able to manage time effectively and prioritise workload.
• Ability to organise, along with good communication skills, both written and oral.
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to manage difficult/stressful situations effectively
• Able to work as an effective team member
  
  

Special Requirements

Essential criteria

• 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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