Elective Orthopaedic Staff Nurse

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Orthopaedic Directorate at Frimley Health Foundation Trust based at Frimley Park Hospital. We are looking to recruit Band 5 Staff Nurses to join our new Elective Orthopaedic Unit.
The Unit is a brand new ward which will run a service 7 days a week. All 13 bed spaces are isolated side rooms. It is a fast paced department catering for patients having a range of orthopaedic surgical procedures.
The successful individual should be a dynamic, enthusiastic, and motivated Staff Nurse who will efficiently deliver a high standard of evidence-based nursing care.
The post holder will carry continuing responsibility for the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care and setting of standards of care.
The successful individual should drive the GIRFT principles enabling capacity and efficient flow liaising with all MDTs and reporting to NIC/ Senior Sister.
The post holder must be a committed and compassionate nurse with exemplary communication and interpersonal skills. You will be supported with speciality specific training and skills update. There are a number of opportunities available that allow for your career progression., To be responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care without direct supervision.
There are plenty of opportunities to develop within Orthopaedics, being supported in the completion of our ward based Orthopaedic competency document. This guides you through your first few months on the ward, ensuring you have the right set of specialist skills to provide the best care to our varied patient group.
For main duties of the job please refer to attached Job Description., + To implement and be responsible for maintaining high standards of patient care.
+ To act in accordance with policies and nursing procedures as per Trust policy.
+ To co-ordinate the team/ward in absence of the team leader or ward manager.
+ To ensure confidentiality of patient records and high standards of nursing documentation.
+ To participate in ongoing clinical supervision.
+ To ensure all training undertaken is evaluated to determine it's effectiveness in practice and to ensure all objectives have been met.
+ To assist in teaching programmes for student nurses/new staff and newly qualified nurses and contribute towards a positive learning environment.
+ To promote good working relationships and to support the ward manager to achieve high morale within the team.
+ To assist in the auditing of patient care and service delivery.
This job description is an indication of the type and range of tasks that are expected of the post holder, and other duties may be required in line with the role and the banding. It will be reviewed and amended from time to time in consultation with the post holder to take account of changing organisational need.
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.

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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