Nursing Associate | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 09 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £26,405 - £28,976 per annum incl HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 May 2024 |
| Location: | Windsor, SL4 3PD |
| Company: | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6215422/151-JB030-HO |
Summary
Be part of our award-winning teams, find your passion working in Respiratory Services.
A sensational opportunity has arisen forB4 Nursing Associatepractitionersto join the well-establish, innovative, and dynamic Respiratory Services as we expand our successful teams to provide Acute Respiratory Virtual Ward.
The Virtual Ward is an exciting new service offering home based care to patients who would otherwise be admitted to hospital. The successful candidate will play an integral part in delivering care to complex respiratory patients and will be expected to understand the management of multiple respiratory conditions and be aware of local and national guidelines related to these.
The award-winning team is based in the Chest Clinic at King Edward VII Hospital in Windsor, but we see patients as hospital in-patients, in clinic and in their own homes in the East Berkshire area.
The role is a predominantly Monday – Friday with the hours being 9-5, although if the service demands you’ll be expected to work 8-4, unsocial hours and weekends.
• Be responsible for delivering high quality, patient centered, compassionate care under the direction of a Registered Nurse (or other registered care professional dependent on setting) with a focus on promoting health and independence
• Work as part of a designated clinical and care team delivering care that focuses on the direct needs of the individual
• Carry out specific clinical and care tasks and responsibilities to a high standard and competency, under the direction of a registered nurse or other registered care professionals dependent on setting
• Have the ability to work without direct supervision, at times delivering care independently in line with the individual’s defined plan of care, within the parameters of practice of the Nursing Associate role, accessing clinical and care advice when needed. The post holder will demonstrate a level of underpinning knowledge to practice and educated to foundation degree level.
• The post holder will support the registered nurses, medical staff and allied health professionals within the clinical environment. The role is flexible and adaptable to the changing needs of the care setting, and it is expected that the responsibilities will be developed, and be agreed as services evolve.
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.
• Support the Specialist Nursing and Allied Health Care professionals to provide advice and support to respiratory patients in the community but will also assist the respiratory team at the acute hospital sites to facilitate early discharge onto the respiratory virtual ward.
• In conjunction with the clinical Nurse Specialist and medical colleagues assist in the education required by patients prior to discharge, including the completion of appropriate bundles.
• Work with other team members embracing the long-term conditions and virtual ward agenda thus preventing avoidable hospital admissions.
This advert closes on Tuesday 16 Apr 2024
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