IVAS Staff Nurse

Job Overview

Exciting Opportunity in a Specialist Infusion Unit!

Are you a dedicated nurse looking for a full-time role in a dynamic and supportive specialist environment? Join our team at the IVAS (Intravenous Assessment and Support) Unit at Frimley Park Hospital as a Band 5 Staff Nurse.

We are currently recruiting enthusiastic and compassionate nurses to deliver high-quality care within our outpatient infusion service.

This is a full-time position working four days a week, Monday to Friday, from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm.

Main duties of the job

The IVAS infusion unit is a new concept in integrated Intravenous and vascular access services care for day case patients who can have infusion therapy to avoid admission or facilitate early discharge.

The IVAS unit also includes the vascular access service and the HIMS service and as such all member of the team will become competent in ultrasound guided cannulation and midline insertion, competency in using all types of vascular access devices and working with HIMS patients.

You will support and work in conjunction with the IVAS team in the delivery of outpatient and ambulatory care IV services.

Our IVAS Nursing team benefit from a strong support framework and a positive approach to flexible working in order to help our staff achieve a healthy work/ life balance.

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

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Venepuncture and cannulation skills
• Competent to deliver IV therapy
• Demonstrates excellent communication and verbal skills
• Computer Literacy skills including familiarity with Microsoft and EPIC
• Ability to work independently and as a member of multidisciplinary team
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Accessing and managing vascular access devices
  
  

Special Requirements

Essential criteria

• Willingness to undertake further education and training to acquire additional skills and qualifications necessary to carry out the role
  
  

Qualifcations

Essential criteria

• Registered General Nurse
• Current NMC Registration
• Evidence of continuing professional development
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Teaching and assessing qualification (Mentorship)
• Immediate Life support
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Recent clinical experience working in an acute setting
• Newly qualified staff nurses considered
  
  

Desirable criteria

• IV therapies nursing
  
  

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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