Job description
Job Overview

Are you ready to take the next step in your career?

If so, we could have the ideal role for you as part of our friendly and dynamic Cardiac Cath Labs. We have 2 labs and a recovery area. We offer a variety of interventional PCI , non-interventional procedure DC cardioversion TOE reveal implant and explant, pacing and EP procedures. We also offer a 24/7 PPCI service, and work closely with the Coronary care Unit and the Cardiology ward.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for promoting a high standard of nursing care and multi-disciplinary working and will be expected to adopt a team approach to problem-solving, therefore good communication, organisational and leadership skills are essential. We are therefore looking for an enthusiastic and proactive qualified nurse with good interpersonal skills.

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

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

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria
• Self-motivated and uses own initiative
• Able to work as an effective team member
• Awareness of current professional nursing issues
• Own professional development
• Ability to manage change within the working environment

Desirable criteria
• Time management and delegation skills
• Able to train junior staff
• Good interpersonal skills with ability to manage stressful situations

Skills

Essential criteria
• * IV trained
• * Venepuncture
• * Cannulation
• * Computer literate

Special Requirements

Essential criteria
• To work in other areas of the department when required
• Able to work flexible shifts, weekends and bank holidays as required
• To be able to work on call after appropriate training
• To be available to cover on calls or be prepared to stay on site for weekend and weekday on calls

Qualifications

Essential criteria
• Current NMC registration
• Post Registration cardiac module

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

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.

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