Staff Nurse - General Surgical

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust; Frimley; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job description

Job Overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic band 5 who is interested in working in an exciting area providing a high level of specialist care.

You will have the opportunity to gain a great understanding in the care of a variety of acute patients. Key areas will include pre and post-operative care, meeting rehab needs, post-operative pain management and establishing working relationships with the multidisciplinary team.

F8 is a great place to learn a whole new speciality as the unit features a completely specific patient dynamic. Because of this, you will build great working relationships within the teams.

Main duties of the job

To work as part of a team of nurses, health care assistants and care assistants and be responsible for the assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating of nursing care.

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 implement and be responsible for maintaining high standards of patient care.
• To act in accordance with policies and nursing procedures as per Trust policy.
• To co-ordinate the team/ward in absence of the team leader or ward manager.
• To ensure confidentiality of patient records and high standards of nursing documentation.
• To be aware of the complaints procedure and be able to apply it as needed.
• To escalate as appropriate any untoward incidents, complaints and ward/staff issues.
• To participate in ongoing clinical supervision.
• To maintain own personal portfolio/profile and to take responsibility for annual updates on current legislative/hospital issues.
• To ensure all training undertaken is evaluated to determine its effectiveness in practice and to ensure all objectives have been met.
• To assist in teaching programmes for student nurses/new staff and newly qualified nurses and contribute towards a positive learning environment.
• To promote good working relationships and to support the ward manager to achieve high morale within the team.
• To assist in the auditing of patient care and service delivery.
• To use all resources efficiently and effectively maintaining an awareness of budgetary implications.
• To carry out all administrative and nursing duties as delegated by the team leader and ward manager.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered general nurse

Desirable criteria

• Surgical Experience
• Mentorship
• Evidence of Further Academic Studies

Experience

Essential criteria

• Manage Small group of patients

Desirable criteria

• Previous experience working in healthcare setting
• Post registration Acute experience

Clinical skills

Essential criteria

• Able to work to deadlines to complete day to day task
• Able to manage conflicting priorities

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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