Sister/ Charge Nurse - Emergency Department inFrimley inFrimley PUBLISHED 20 JUL 2024

Job Overview


Are you an Emergency nurse looking for a new challenge?

We are looking for enthusiastic, forward thinking and highly motivated Band 6 nurses to join our Team. In this role you must be passionate about working in a caring environment with patients and be committed to delivering high quality patient care. You will be able to use your clinical skills as well as taking part in the day to day management of the department.

Main duties of the job

As a Senior Nurse, you will be expected to take charge of either the whole department with the support of the Manager or taking charge of an area of the department. You should be able to run your area with minimal supervision. Able to keep the flow of the department going, can plan early for safe discharge, keeping the area safe and able to support junior staff.

You are also expected to be a link Nurse and support your team leader by managing your team members. To act in a multi–disciplinary role with emphasis upon liaising, operational decision making and team building. The post holder will have responsibility for the assessment of development,

implementation and evaluation of care needs.

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 review JD / Person specification attached to this vacancy for additional information regarding roles and responsibilities.

Person specification


Qualifications


Essential criteria

• Registered Nurse
• Relevant Post Registration
• Emergency Course/In house band 5 development programme
• Mentor Prep
• ILS
  
  

Desirable criteria

• ALS
• ATNC
  
  

Experience


Essential criteria

• Minimum of 2 years experience as Senior Band 5 in Emergency Care
• Experience supervising in ED
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Shadow Nurse in charge role
  
  

Skills


Essential criteria

• Efficient in time management and in prioritizing workload effectively.
• Allocate staff appropriately to create a safe and efficient skill mix.
• Able to demonstrate communication skills both written and oral
• Management and influencing skills
• Ability to analyse problems, to think laterally and implement effective solutions
• Able to clinically provide nursing care in all areas
• Ability to manage complex situations
  
  

Special Requirements

Essential criteria

• Flexible approach to own working pattern
• Ability to work weekdays, weekends, bank holidays and nights
  
  

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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