Orthopaedic Staff Nurse

at  Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Trauma and Orthopaedics is recruiting! Working with us at Frimley Health Trust 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 a number of opportunities available that allow for development and exciting career progression. Our credited orthopaedic module provides the opportunity to develop further orthopaedic skills.
There are plenty of opportunities to develop with other Nurses new to orthopaedics, being supported in the completion of our ward based orthopaedic competency document.
This guides you through your first few months on the ward, ensuring you have the right set of specialist skills to best care for our varied patient group.
From learning how to care for spinal patients to those with complex fractures and everything in between, you will have the opportunity to shadow our trauma nurse practitioners as well as spend some time in other orthopaedic specialist areas such as theatres, fracture clinic and spinal injuries whilst becoming competent in delivering high quality care.
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.

PURPOSE OF JOB:

To work as part of a team of nurses, health care assistants and care assistants and be responsible for the assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating of nursing care.

KEY TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES:

To implement and be responsible for maintaining high standards of patient care.
To act in accordance with policies and nursing procedures as per Trust policy.
To co-ordinate the team/ward in absence of the team leader or ward manager.
To ensure confidentiality of patient records and high standards of nursing documentation.
To be aware of the complaints procedure and be able to apply it as needed.
To escalate as appropriate any untoward incidents, complaints and ward/staff issues.
To participate in ongoing clinical supervision.
To maintain own personal portfolio/profile and to take responsibility for annual updates on current legislative/hospital issues.
To ensure all training undertaken is evaluated to determine it’s effectiveness in practice and to ensure all objectives have been met.
To assist in teaching programmes for student nurses/new staff and newly qualified nurses and contribute towards a positive learning environment.
To promote good working relationships and to support the ward manager to achieve high morale within the team.
To assist in the auditing of patient care and service delivery.
To use all resources efficiently and effectively maintaining an awareness of budgetary implications.
To carry out all administrative and nursing duties as delegated by the team leader and ward manager