Staff Nurse - Ambulatory Emergency Care Unit

Job Overview

An exciting opportunity has opened up in the Ambulatory Emergency Care Unit for a Band 5 Adult registered nurse who has experience in acute medical care and emergency services.

This is open to registered nurses who are interested in a fast paced working environment and would like to develop the skills of triaging, history taking, physical assessment and providing same day emergency procedures to a variety of medical patients.

You will be joining a team of nurses, doctors, advanced nurse practitioners, medical technical assistants, emergency health care assistants in providing timely assessments and management to our acute medical patients. We receive direct GP referrals , Emergency Department referrals and Urgent treatment Care referrals to facilitate quick care pathways, liaising with appropriate speciality inputs and prevent unnecessary admissions accordingly.

Main duties of the job

• Triage acute medical referral
• To be responsible for assessment planning and intervention in the management of acute medical patients
• To provide same -day emergency care, prompt safety and efficient management and discharge
• To work within a team that provides high quality care
  
  

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

• Registered General Nurse
• Current (or pending) NMC Registration
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience /placements in emergency care or acute medical departments
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience in caring for a variety of acute medical conditions
• Previous experience triaging emergency and acute medical patients
  
  

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Awareness of current professional nursing issues
• Ability to manage change within the working environment
• Effective communication skills (written and verbal)
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to manage difficult / stressful situations
• Able to train and supervise junior
• Able to manage a team in the absence of the team leader
  
  

Special Requirements

Essential criteria

• To work in other areas of the department when required
• 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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