Staff Nurse - MADU

Are you a nurse looking to either change direction, or develop and grow within your career?

• If yes, then Frimley Health Foundation Trust is your choice of employer!
• We are one Trust with 3 hospital sites across Frimley, Ascot and Slough
An opportunity has arisen for you to join the Medical Acute Dependency Unit (MADU) nursing team within the Medicine directorate at Frimley NHS Foundation Trust,FrimleyPark site. We also consider newly qualified nurses nearing the end of their training wishing to join our team also and will ensure they will have the appropriate training and support they need. We positively promote staff development with the support of our Respiratory specialist Practice Development nurse, and you will have the opportunity to develop your skills with the aid of the nationally recognised Skills competency Framework We offer:
• Comprehensive Competency pack to support your learning and development
• Opportunities to undertake both degree/masters courses including our own inhouse accredited respiratory module
• Bespoke study days/event for tracheostomy care, NIV and many other topics
• Support of our in house specialist practice development nursing team to support your own professional development
As a department we take extreme pride in our staff, ensuring that individual development is paramount. If you wish to broaden your clinical skill set or gain further knowledge in the field of acute medicine then this is the opportunity for you!, Our MADU is a 12 bedded unit and has facilities for full cardiac monitoring and non-invasive ventilation. We provide level one and two care to patients with a variety of conditions from GI bleeds, DKA, type 1 and type 2 respiratory failure requiring non-invasive ventilation, CPAP, Oxygen Therapy, Heart failure, severe electrolyte imbalance, central lines and arterial lines monitoring, amongst others.

We are looking to appoint a dynamic individual with strong interpersonal skills and an enthusiasm for caring for acutely ill medical patients.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire. We brought together Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to create Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust on 1 October 2014. 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 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.