Discharge Lounge Staff Nurse | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

To promote and identify patients that are suitable to transfer to our new Discharge Lounge and support and encourage ward staff to utilise the Lounge and ensure patients safety and care is adhered too through the discharge planning process. Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire. As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area. We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough. Our threecore 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.

• To deliver high quality patient care to patients and relatives.
• To communicate effectively with patients and their relatives.
• To demonstrate the ability to asses, monitor & implement care. Developing techniques & skills.
• To have a working knowledge of Health and safety regulations.
• To participate in departmental meetings, helping initiate new ideas.
• To work well as part of a team and also work using own initiative, building new working relationships.
  
  An exciting opportunity has arisen for a enthusiastic, self motivated and forward thinking Staff nurse to join our team in the Discharge Lounge based at Frimley Park Hospital.
Working with a well established team , which are currently in the process of expanding the post holder will be able to work independently, also with other team members to transfer patients to the Discharge Lounge to support with capacity and flow.