Job summary
- Main area
- Orthopaedics
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Weekdays and Weekends (No Night shifts))
- Job ref
- 151-NH140
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Frimley Park Hospital
- Town
- Frimley
- Salary
- £27,857 - £30,570 pa incl HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/11/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Nursing Associate
Band 4
Job overview
Trauma and Orthopaedics is recruiting! Working with us at Frimley Health will give you the chance to deliver care you can be proud of! We work closely as a Multi-disciplinary Team working alongside orthopaedic surgeons, our team of ward-based Ortho- geriatricians, Physiotherapists, Occupational therapist, and trauma nurse practitioners, all striving to provide the highest standards of clinical excellence.
Once you are settled onto one of our orthopaedic wards there are several opportunities available that enhances further development and exciting career progression. We organise in house ortho skills and spinal skills study sessions and credited orthopaedic module that provides the opportunity to develop further specialist skill.
Applicant should be qualified and a registered nursing associate with NMC. You will have the opportunity to gain orthopaedics nursing skills and you will be supported with supernumerary period in the ward.
You will need to be enthusiastic, be able to use your own initiative, and have well developed time-management and communication skills. You will need to have the flexibility to work a variable shift pattern between 07.00- 19.30.
You can enjoy:
A full induction programme
A competency-based appraisal system
Opportunities to undertake formal study
Preceptorship Programme
If you would like to learn more about this role or arrange an informal visit, please contact: Suk Maya Tamang on 03006134469
Main duties of the job
§ Provide excellent customer care skills to ensure patients come first.
§ Undertakes a range of delegated clinical care duties (within level of competency) to deliver agreed plans of care, acting on own initiative.
§ To support the implementation and maintenance of Team Nursing within the clinical area,
§ taking responsibility for allocated patients. Reflection of care in electronic patient record (EPIC).
§ Mentor and support new care assistants on the care certificate.
§ To ensure that patients receive high quality clinical care and a good patient experience, having regard for their customs, religious beliefs, and doctrines.
For detailed duties, please see attached Job description.
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.
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.
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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
§ To respond appropriately to clinical emergencies to ensure the patient receives appropriate care.
§ To participate in Quality Assurance initiatives within the unit. Improve compliance of KPIs and care pathways.
§ Safe handling and mobilization of patients and when necessary to assist in the transportation of patients.
§ Participate in the assessment, admission, discharge, and handover of patients as per trust guidelines. Mandatory risk assessment compliance in EPIC update.
§ Provide reassurance, support to patients, carers and family and communicate care plan efficiently.
§ Ensure own actions help to maintain quality care.
§ Establish and maintain communication with MDT efficiently.
§ To act always in a manner which, promotes positive working relationships and maintains the professional image of the Trust. Adhere trust values.
§ Caring for patient's property and clothing
§ Answer telephone calls, bleeps etc. and to take messages informing appropriate persons of the call or bleep received.
For detailed Job description, please see attached Job description.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered with the NMC and valid Pin.
- Nursing Associate foundation degree UK qualification
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of Further Education
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in care setting
- Experience working with MDTs
- Utilizing own initiative in prioritizing and decision making
Desirable criteria
- Experienced in Orthopaedics Nursing
- Evidence of involvement in support/development of junior staff
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent Communication skills i.e. verbal and written
- Basic IT skills
- Ability to work in fast paced work environment
Desirable criteria
- Practice Supervisor and Assessor Experience
- Advanced IT skills
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
- Suk Maya Tamang
- Job title
- Senior Sister
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03006134469
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