Job overview

Are you looking for a new challenge?

Do you want to make a difference? 

We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Staff members to join as a  Band 6 nurse on Treetops elective Orthopaedic ward.

As a Frimley Health Nurse, you can look forward to a career full of development opportunities, accessible management and the support from an excellent team of healthcare professionals – freeing up your time to concentrate on the most important priorities. Our Orthopaedic Ward gives you the chance to deliver care you can be proud of!

Treetops  is a 22  bedded elective Orthopaedic Unit that looks after a range of  elective patients for orthopaedic operations and plastics. 

It works very closely with the therapist and Consultants on the ward to provide a holistic service to the patients.  It’s a team of experienced nurses and mentors is well established, and ward uses the evidence based Enhanced Recovery programme to maximise its care of patients.

We are driven to give our patients a holistic approach to their care so you will be confident working with a passionate multi-disciplinary team, along with delivering excellent standards of patient care whilst ensuring patient dignity, safety and confidentiality.

 As a friendly, caring individual who is passionate about nursing you will be driven to continuously improve patient experience and assist in identifying improvements to drive our department.

Main duties of the job

Professional/Clinical Role

• To be responsible for the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care without supervision
• To pro-actively co-ordinate the patient’s discharge arrangements in accordance with Trust Policy

• Ensure that all nursing practice within the clinical area complies with Trust Nursing policies and procedures.
• To always comply with the NMC Code of Conduct (2015)
•  To communicate effectively and liaise with all health care staff as           appropriate.
• To demonstrate a collaborative approach to planning care through effective communication and decision making between the multi-disciplinary team, patients and significant others. 

• Consolidate and extend own clinical skills in all aspects of nursing, furthering own professional knowledge in a rapidly changing environment.
•  Provide clinical leadership and development support to the nursing team.
• Where issues of clinical competence are identified, work with the Ward Matron/ Senior Sister to address them.
• Contribute to the local resolution, investigation and follow action of any informal or formal complaints.
• To prioritise own work and others to ensure the ward/department is managed effectively.
• To provide specialist knowledge and expertise within ward/department.
• Participate in and lead quality initiatives to promote and ensure that nursing care is evidence and research based.

Working for our organisation

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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