Bank Staff Nurse- ED

Job Overview

Are you a dynamic and passionate Emergency Nurse dedicated to contribute to our high standards of nursing care who is looking for a new challenge?

Are you also looking for flexible shifts to suit your lifestyle.

Our Temporary Staffing service is looking to recruit bank ED Nurses to join the multi-disciplinary teams at both Frimley and Wexham Park Hospital in the Emergency Department.

We are offering versatility to work flexibly whist benefitting from being part of the ED team with access to a range of training and staff benefits.

Main duties of the job

You will be a member of the multi-disciplinary team and be encouraged to take responsibility for various areas of clinical practice to ensure that the department delivers a high quality service.

Our ED departments are extremely busy so we are looking for individuals with strong ED clinical skills, great communication with patients and their relatives to promote wellbeing and is able to work closely with the ambulance service, police, and other supporting agencies.

Working for our organisation

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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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

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Current NMC registration
• Registered Nurse
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Mentor /Preceptor course
• Module in emergency care nursing
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Post qualification experience in an acute setting
• Evidence of dealing with difficult situations in an appropriate manner
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Emergency nursing experience
  
  

Skills

Essential criteria

• Able to manage time effectively and priorities workload.
• Ability to organize, along with good communication skills, both written and oral.
  
  

Special Requirements

Essential criteria

• Able to work flexible shifts weekends and bank holidays as required
  
  

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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