Staff Nurse - Ward 9 Respiratory Medicine

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

Job summary

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust seeks a dedicated Nurse for Ward 9 specializing in respiratory care. The role involves providing crucial nursing care, working within a multi-disciplinary team, and benefitting from extensive professional development opportunities. Join a supportive environment committed to excellence in patient care and professional growth.

Qualifications

• Recent experience in acute respiratory or acute medical nursing.
• Competent in IV administration and life support.
• Able to work flexible shifts and manage stressful situations.

Responsibilities

• Provision of nursing care for patients with acute conditions.
• Co-ordinating care with multi-disciplinary team.
• Assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating patient care.

Skills

Effective communication skills

Competent in basic life support

Ability to prioritise workload

Good interpersonal skills

Education

NMC Registration

Degree level registration

Job description

Job Overview

Are you an experienced Nurse looking for an opportunity to grow, develop, or take your career in a new direction?

We are excited to offer a position within Ward 9 – Respiratory Medicine at Wexham Park Hospital, part of the Medicine Directorate.

Ward 9 has 38 beds specialising in the care of patients with respiratory conditions, including COPD, asthma, interstitial lung disease (ILD), and more. Our team also provides expert care for patients with tracheostomies, laryngectomies, home NIV machines, and chest drains.

At Wexham Park Hospital, we are committed to professional growth and development. With the support of our dedicated Practice Development Nurse, you will have access to ongoing training and skill enhancement through the nationally recognized Skills Competency Framework.

If you are passionate about respiratory care and eager to advance your nursing career in a supportive and dynamic environment, we would love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

• Provision of nursing care for patients with a variety of acute conditions
• Co-ordinating the care of patients across the multi-disciplinary team
• Responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of individual patient care with minimal supervision
• To work as part of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure that treatments are correctly carried out in accordance with given policy
  
  

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

• NMC Registration
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Degree level registration
• Basic Life Support
• Respiratory Course/Acute Care Courses
• Mentorship/SLIP course
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Recent experience within an acute respiratory or acute medical nursing environment
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Post qualification experience
  
  

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Competent in basic life support and IV administration
• Able to prioritise workload (self and others) and meet deadlines
• Effective communication skills (written and verbal)
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to manage difficult/ stressful situations
• Effective working with multidisciplinary teams
  
  

Special Requirements

Essential criteria

• Able to work flexible shifts, weekends and bank holidays as required
• To work in other areas of the department when 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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