Staff Nurse - Eden Ward • Slough Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
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{"interviewQueryText":"What are some good interview questions in British English for the job description below?\n\n-------------------------------------------\n\nStaff Nurse - Eden Ward with Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust in Slough, England, United Kingdom\n\n Job Overview On Eden Ward we care principally for haematology patients and patients undergoing investigations and treatment of disorders affecting the blood or bone marrow. We also care for patients with different types of cancer. We provide high standard of care to patients receiving intensive chemotherapy treatments on a daily basis. This is an exciting time as we are planning on starting a new autologous stem cell transplant service at Wexham Park Hospital as a spoke for Oxford University Hospital. Driven to provide nursing led care you will be working with a dedicated patient list to provide holistic care to our patients and as part of the multi-disciplinary team ensure their safe and timely discharge. We are excited to be using an E-prescribing system and provide full training on this. You will also work closely with the Eden Day Unit. We have a dedicated practice development team to drive your professional development so wherever you are in your career journey we can help you grow. Once experience and knowledge are built, you will be offered chemotherapy training to ensure safe administration. Chemotherapy training will be provided, however, there will be a waiting list so will not be immediate 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. Administration of Haematology and oncology treatments 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. Responsible for the assessment of complex care needs of chemotherapy patients and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care. Lead and monitor the performance and standards of care within the Nursing Team in absence of band 6 Work collaboratively with the other members of cancer services team to facilitate the development of the service. 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 Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for main responsibilities of this role. Person specification Qualifications Essential criteria RGN Level 1 Current NMC Registration Desirable criteria Trained in the administration of chemotherapy Experienced in working on haematology/oncology ward Experience and Knowledge Essential criteria Competent in basic life support and IV administration Acute Medical Nursing Environment Teaching and supervising of junior staff Effective working with multi-disciplinary teams Working with electronic medical record Personal Attributes Essential criteria Effective communication skills (written and verbal) Good interpersonal skills with the ability to manage difficult / stressful situations Time management and delegation skills Able to train and supervise junior staff Ability to lead team in absence of leader Desirable criteria Competent to administer chemotherapy 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 . Apply online now"}