Staff Nurse - Critical Care

Job overview

• If yes, then Frimley Health Foundation Trust is your choice of employer!
• We are one Trust with 3 hospital sites across Frimley, Ascot and Slough

Wexham Park Critical Care is looking to appoint a Band 5 staff nurse to join our Critical Care Team. We are seeking to appoint a motivated and dynamic Registered Nurse who wishes to pursue a structured Band 5 critical care development programme.

Wexham Park Critical Care Unit has 12 beds consisting of a mixture of ITU/HDU patients (Level 3 and Level 2). Our education programmes, supported by our practice education team, aim to provide staff of all grades with the essential knowledge and skills required to work on our busy, friendly unit.

Note: previous applicants need not apply.

Main duties of the job

Under the supervision of the nurse in charge the post holder will be responsible for assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of individual patient care.

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 2014.

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

• Be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and

• Participate in the setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of patient care.
• To actively support in the promotion of health.
• Demonstrate a sound knowledge of infection control standards and promote these within unit environment.
• To participate in and set standards of patient care based on sound research findings.
• To participate and assist in the systematic monitoring and evaluation of nursing care.
• Provide legible and comprehensive patient records to agreed Trust and NMC standards and guidelines.
• To liaise with Team Leader on untoward incidents, complaints and Team/Staff issues.
• To act in accordance with trust policies and nursing procedures.
• To maintain your own personal profile.

For a full list of responsibilities, please see the attached job description.

Person specification

Qualifications

• RGN level 1 or level 2
• Current NMC registration

• Mentorship qualification
• I.V training

Experience

• Relevant post-registration experience
• Current or previous experience in hospital based care environment

• Acute ward experience
• Working with multi-disciplinary teams

Skills

• Self motivated with the ability to motivate others
• Ability to adapt to change within the working environment
• Innovative and enthusiastic

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.