Staff Nurse - Private Patients

Job Overview

The Parkside Suite Heatherwood is a Private Patient Unit situated within Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust. It offers high standards of care with 10 in-patient rooms.

We are currently seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic Staff nurse, who is looking for a stimulating and challenging environment to join our supportive and friendly team for a 12 month Secondment.

You should enjoy working as part of a team and demonstrate excellent customer care and communication skills. We are a mixed speciality ward therefore can offer excellent learning opportunities.

• Responsible for the assessment of patient care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care without supervision.
• To participate and assist in systematic monitoring and evaluation of nursing practice.
• To participate and assist in setting standards of patient care based on sound evidence-based findings, implementing these into practice.
• Ensure that the nursing practices of the area comply with the Trust’s Nursing policies and procedures and maintain high standards of nursing practice.
• To comply at all times with the NMC Code of Conduct.
• Communicate effectively and liaise with all health care staff as appropriate.
• To encourage and maintain good relationship with Medical Staff and other members of the Primary Care and Social Services teams in order to provide the best care.
• To support the implementation and maintenance of Team Nursing within the clinical area, taking responsibility for a designated caseload of patients. Within this system of case management, co‑ordinate and monitor the progress of patients along their critical pathway, reporting any variance from the pathway.
• Take responsibility for co‑ordinating individual patient’s journey from admission to discharge.
• To maintain an excellent working knowledge of the equipment used within the department, ensuring that it is in safe working order.
• Day to day you will be assisting patients, providing support to areas with high demand, and providing quality nursing.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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For further information regarding the detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the attached job description and person specification documents.

Essential criteria

• Current first or second-level NMC Registration.
• Evidence of continuous Professional Development.

Desirable criteria

• Teaching certificate.
• Post basic certificate.

Essential criteria

• General medical/or surgical experience either as qualified or student nurse

Desirable criteria

• Experience working within a private patient setting.

Essential criteria

• Effective Communication skills
• Effective verbal skills
• Able to assess, plan and implement high quality nursing care

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) is proud of its strong reputation, record of achievement and ambition for the future. We serve a population of over 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and South Buckinghamshire, and remain committed to improving the health and wellbeing of our communities.

Our new organisational strategy – FHFT 2030 – sets out our ambition to be the best place to receive care and the best place to work in the NHS. Underpinned by our Trust values –
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