Staff Nurse - Emergency Department

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust; Slough; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic Emergency Department at Wexham Park Hospital as a Staff Nurse. This role offers diverse clinical experiences and opportunities for career progression in emergency care. Enjoy flexible shifts and a supportive environment while making a difference in patient care.

Benefits

Flexible shifts

Career progression opportunities

Professional development training

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care.
• Providing safe care per local and national guidelines.

Skills

Communication

Teamwork

Time Management

Education

Current NMC registration

Tools

EPR

Job description

Job Overview

Staff Nurse – Emergency Department (Band 5)

Wexham Park Hospital

Are you a passionate and dynamic nurse looking for an exciting opportunity in emergency care? Wexham Park Hospital’s Emergency Department is expanding, and we are seeking experienced Band 5 nurses and newly qualified nurses to join our dedicated team.

Why Join Us?

A fast-paced, vibrant Emergency Department treating over 350 patients daily

Diverse Clinical Experience With

8-bedded Resuscitation area

30-bed Majors unit

10-bed Purple Assessment area

Separate Paediatric Department

Minor injuries & illness Green Zone

Opportunities for career progression in emergency and acute nursing

Modernised facilities to support exceptional patient care

Flexible, family-friendly shifts – long days and short shifts available

What We’re Looking For

We Are Seeking Motivated And Professional Nurses With

• Strong communication and teamwork skills
• A passion for emergency care and acute clinical practice
• Commitment to high-quality patient care
  
  

Whether you are newly qualified or an experienced Band 5 nurse looking to advance in emergency nursing, this is your opportunity to make a difference in a dynamic and supportive environment!

Apply today and become part of our dedicated Emergency Care team!

Main duties of the job

To work as part of a team of nurses and health care assistants and be responsible for the assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating of nursing care. To offer safe care in accordance with up to date local and national guidelines.

The emergency department look after a wide variety of patients with various illness and injuries from cardiac arrests, traumas, acutely unwell medical and surgical patients to minor injuries and illnesses.

For newly qualified nurses our Emergency Department is an ideal environment to underpin and put into practice their knowledge and skills. For our nursing colleagues who already have some experience in acute nursing ED can provide an environment in which to develop. We are well supported by our practice development team with opportunities for to gain experience in emergency care skills such as suturing and plastering and other training along with further education at our local universities.

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 detailed job description and main responsibilities for the band 5 please refer to the relevant job descriptions attached.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Current NMC registration
  
  

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 care for a group of patients using an A to E assessment framework, able to escalate concerns
• Ability to organise, along with good communication skills, both written and oral
• IT literate- used to working with EPR
• Up to date with local and national guidelines and best practice
  
  

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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