Staff Nurse - Critical Care

Are you an experienced 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

Frimley Park Critical Care is looking to appoint a Band 5 staff nurse to join our Critical Care Team. We are seeking to appoint a motivated and dynamic Registered Nurse who wishes to pursue a structured Band 5 critical care development programme.

Frimley Park Critical Care Unit has 12 beds consisting of a mixture of ITU/HDU patients (Level 3 and Level 2). Our education programmes, supported by our practice education team, aim to provide staff of all grades with the essential knowledge and skills required to work on our busy, friendly unit.

You will have a minimum of 6 months relevant post registration experience in an acute hospital setting, and up-to-date knowledge, together with a willingness to develop acute care skills and the ability to integrate into our dynamic team.

We offer a flexible work pattern by offering both short and long shifts, all staff will be expected to rotate onto night duty.

Note: previous applicants need not apply.

Under the supervision of the nurse in charge, the post holder will be responsible for assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of individual patient care.

The post holder will work as part of a team and be accountable for the total provision, organization and direction of the nursing care for the patient in their care.

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

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. Frimley Health Intensive Care Unit work closely together to support staffing and education.

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

• Be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and

evaluation of patient care and in conjunction with specialist and senior clinical staff.

• Participate in the setting, monitoring and evaluating standards of patient care.
• To actively support in the promotion of health.
• Demonstrate a sound knowledge of infection control standards and promote these within unit environment.
• To participate in and set standards of patient care based on sound research findings.
• To participate and assist in the systematic monitoring and evaluation of nursing care.
• Provide legible and comprehensive patient records to agreed Trust and NMC standards and guidelines.
• To liaise with Team Leader on untoward incidents, complaints and Team/Staff issues.
• To act in accordance with trust policies and nursing procedures
• To maintain your own personal profile.

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.