Nursing Associate (Band 4) - Orthopaedics - Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust – Frimley, Surrey
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 alongside orthopaedic surgeons, ward-based Ortho-geriatricians, Physiotherapists, Occupational therapists, 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 enhance further development and exciting career progression. We organise in-house ortho skills and spinal skills study sessions and a credited orthopaedic module that provides the opportunity to develop further specialist skills.
Applicants should be qualified and a registered nursing associate with NMC. You will have the opportunity to gain orthopaedic nursing skills and will be supported with a supernumerary period in the ward.
You will need to be enthusiastic, 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:
1. A full induction programme
2. A competency-based appraisal system
3. Opportunities to undertake formal study
4. Preceptorship Programme
If you would like to learn more about this role or arrange an informal visit, please contact: Suk Maya Tamang on 03006134469.
Responsibilities:
1. Provide excellent customer care skills to ensure patients come first.
2. Undertake a range of delegated clinical care duties (within level of competency) to deliver agreed plans of care, acting on own initiative.
3. Support the implementation and maintenance of Team Nursing within the clinical area, taking responsibility for allocated patients.
4. Reflect care in electronic patient record (EPIC).
5. Mentor and support new care assistants on the care certificate.
6. Ensure that patients receive high-quality clinical care and a good patient experience, having regard for their customs, religious beliefs, and doctrines.
7. Respond appropriately to clinical emergencies to ensure the patient receives appropriate care.
8. Participate in Quality Assurance initiatives within the unit. Improve compliance of KPIs and care pathways.
9. Safe handling and mobilization of patients and when necessary assist in the transportation of patients.
10. Participate in the assessment, admission, discharge, and handover of patients as per trust guidelines. Mandatory risk assessment compliance in EPIC update.
11. Provide reassurance and support to patients, carers, and family and communicate care plans efficiently.
12. Ensure own actions help to maintain quality care.
13. Establish and maintain communication with MDT efficiently.
14. Act always in a manner which promotes positive working relationships and maintains the professional image of the Trust. Adhere to trust values.
15. Caring for patients' property and clothing.
16. Answer telephone calls, bleeps, etc., and take messages informing appropriate persons of the call or bleep received.
For detailed duties, please see the attached Job description.
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.
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