Job summary
- Main area
- Acute Medicine
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- 37.5 hours per week (Full time flexible)
- Job ref
- 151-KMU1
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Frimley Park Hospital
- Town
- Frimley
- Salary
- £29,828 - £36,311 Per annum inc. HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Staff Nurse - AMU
Band 5
Job overview
Are you an experienced or newly qualified Nurse looking to grow within your career?
If yes, then this is the opportunity for you!
An opportunity has arisen for you to join the Acute Medical Unit nursing team within the Emergency directorate at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, Frimley Park Hospital site. The post is for for 37.5 hours per week Permanent full time.
Main duties of the job
We have a strong sense of community in our teams and we are looking to recruit dynamic and motivated individuals who will become an essential part of our multidisciplinary team in an engaging and supportive environment.
Our units are rapidly developing unit, caring for patients with a range of acute medical conditions and fast paced patient turnover. The department takes admissions from our Emergency department and is now accepting direct GP referrals to the Unit.
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 medicine then this is the opportunity for you!
Within our Trust we have a positive flexible working approach in order to help our staff achieve a healthy work/life balance, an ethic that is strongly supported by our department.
Working for our organisation
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.
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 in UK
- Current (or pending) NMC Registration
Experience
Essential criteria
- Able to work as an effective team member
- Hospital experience in UK setting
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience managing patients with acute and chronic medical conditions.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Effective communication skills (written and verbal)
- Able to prioritise workload (self and others) and meet deadlines
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Marvin Putal
- Job title
- Senior Charge Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03006131214
- Additional information
Christina O'Garra Senior Sister, AMU 03006131214
Informal visits to the department are encouraged
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