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Job OverviewThe discharge lounge offers a safe comfortable environment for patients whilst waiting to be discharged from hospital to their home. Patients are discharged through the Lounge to maintain and facilitate capacity and flow of the hospital, freeing up much needed beds for emergency and elective patients on a day to day basis. As a Staff Nurse working in the team you will work within the discharge team alongside site managers and ward team to ensure seamless discharges.
Main duties of the job
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and forward thinking staff nurse to join the team in the Discharge Lounge at Wexham Park Hospital.
Working with a well established team, the post holder will be able to work independently to work with the ward teams to move patients to the discharge lounge to support with capacity and patient flow.
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
The Discharge Lounge nurse will assist patients with:
- The prescribed medications required to take home on discharge. These will be explained by the trained member of staff.
- Follow up District nurse referrals if needed.
- Administer any medications as needed and indicated.
- Liaise Site Managers and Discharge Coordinators and care providers.
- Liaise with transport.
- Liaise with pharmacy.
- Contact next of kin.
- Check observations when needed.
- Health education on Discharge.
- Any support you in all matters relating to your discharge.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Current (or pending) NMC Registration
- Dementia course or study days
Experience
Essential criteria
- Self-motivated and uses own initiative
- Awareness of current professional nursing issues
- Able to work as an effective team member
- Own professional development.
- Experience in caring for elderly patients who have dementia
- Previous experience managing patients with chronic medical conditions.
Essential criteria
- Effective communication skills (written and verbal)
- Good interpersonal skills with the ability to manage difficult / stressful situations
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
The discharge lounge offers a safe comfortable environment for patients whilst waiting to be discharged from hospital to their home. Patients are discharged through the Lounge to maintain and facilitate capacity and flow of the hospital, freeing up much needed beds for emergency and elective patients on a day to day basis. As a Staff Nurse working in the team you will work within the discharge team alongside site managers and ward team to ensure seamless discharges.
Main duties of the job
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and forward thinking staff nurse to join the team in the Discharge Lounge at Wexham Park Hospital.
Working with a well established team, the post holder will be able to work independently to work with the ward teams to move patients to the discharge lounge to support with capacity and patient flow.
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
The Discharge Lounge nurse will assist patients with:
Qualifications
Essential criteria
Experience
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
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
The discharge lounge offers a safe comfortable environment for patients whilst waiting to be discharged from hospital to their home. Patients are discharged through the Lounge to maintain and facilitate capacity and flow of the hospital, freeing up much needed beds for emergency and elective patients on a day to day basis. As a Staff Nurse working in the team you will work within the discharge team alongside site managers and ward team to ensure seamless discharges.
Main duties of the job
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and forward thinking staff nurse to join the team in the Discharge Lounge at Wexham Park Hospital.
Working with a well established team, the post holder will be able to work independently to work with the ward teams to move patients to the discharge lounge to support with capacity and patient flow.
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
The Discharge Lounge nurse will assist patients with:
- The prescribed medications required to take home on discharge. These will be explained by the trained member of staff.
- Follow up District nurse referrals if needed.
- Administer any medications as needed and indicated.
- Liaise Site Managers and Discharge Coordinators and care providers.
- Liaise with transport.
- Liaise with pharmacy.
- Contact next of kin.
- Check observations when needed.
- Health education on Discharge.
- Any support you in all matters relating to your discharge.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Current (or pending) NMC Registration
- Dementia course or study days
Experience
Essential criteria
- Self-motivated and uses own initiative
- Awareness of current professional nursing issues
- Able to work as an effective team member
- Own professional development.
- Experience in caring for elderly patients who have dementia
- Previous experience managing patients with chronic medical conditions.
Essential criteria
- Effective communication skills (written and verbal)
- Good interpersonal skills with the ability to manage difficult / stressful situations
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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