Junior Sister/ Charge Nurse inSlough inSlough PUBLISHED 10 JUL 2024

Job Overview


We have an exciting development opportunity for a qualified nurse to join our busy Ward 9 Team.

Ward 9 consists of General Medical and Respiratory patients and boasts a department that has expanded over the last year and we want you to join our team working in partnership with senior multi-professional colleagues to maintain and develop a flexible high dependency service, responding to trust requirements.

To be responsible for the development and leadership of the clinical nursing team to ensure the highest standard of care is met in line with local and national recommendations.

Main duties of the job


We Are Looking To Appoint a


  • dynamic individual with strong interpersonal skills
  • with experience in Respiratory, Acute Medicine
  • with some managerial and team leader experience or NIC experience
  • enthusiasm for caring for acutely ill medical patients.

Are you ready for this exciting opportunity? Are you ready for a new challenge in your own development and career?

If so apply now!

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.

We brought together Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to create Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust on 1 October 2.

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.


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

Facing the Future

Essential criteria

  • 6 months experience caring for patients within an acute care setting

Desirable criteria

  • Mentor preparation
  • experience in management and leadership of a team/shift

Commited to Excellence

Essential criteria

  • Registered on the NMC with Pin Number
  • Cannulation and venepuncture competent
  • Intravenous drug administration competent

Desirable criteria

  • Immediate Life Support

Working together

Essential criteria

  • Being supportive even when under pressure

Desirable criteria

  • Team Leader experience

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
Job Overview

We have an exciting development opportunity for a qualified nurse to join our busy Ward 9 Team.

Ward 9 consists of General Medical and Respiratory patients and boasts a department that has expanded over the last year and we want you to join our team working in partnership with senior multi-professional colleagues to maintain and develop a flexible high dependency service, responding to trust requirements.

To be responsible for the development and leadership of the clinical nursing team to ensure the highest standard of care is met in line with local and national recommendations.

Main duties of the job

We Are Looking To Appoint a

  • dynamic individual with strong interpersonal skills
  • with experience in Respiratory, Acute Medicine
  • with some managerial and team leader experience or NIC experience
  • enthusiasm for caring for acutely ill medical patients.

Are you ready for this exciting opportunity? Are you ready for a new challenge in your own development and career?

If so apply now!

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.

We brought together Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to create Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust on 1 October 2.

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.

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

Facing the Future

Essential criteria

  • 6 months experience caring for patients within an acute care setting

Desirable criteria

  • Mentor preparation
  • experience in management and leadership of a team/shift

Commited to Excellence

Essential criteria

  • Registered on the NMC with Pin Number
  • Cannulation and venepuncture competent
  • Intravenous drug administration competent

Desirable criteria

  • Immediate Life Support

Working together

Essential criteria

  • Being supportive even when under pressure

Desirable criteria

  • Team Leader experience

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


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