Outpatient Sister/Charge Nurse | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 29 Gorffennaf 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £40,617 - £48,778 per annum incl HCAS |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 28 Awst 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Windsor, SL4 3DP |
| Cwmni: | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7364839/151-JLM512 |
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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic, enthusiastic, and highly motivated registered nurse with a varied clinical experience to join the senior Outpatient team.
The Outpatient team are passionate about constantly improving our service and delivering high quality care to our patients. W
e are looking for committed individuals with excellent organisational and leadership skills. Excellent interpersonal skills are required to lead and support the team and to undertake a wide range of administrative duties in tandem with clinical duties.
The successful candidate will demonstrate criteria set out in the Job Description and Person Specification. Experience working in an outpatient clinic setting would be an advantage but not essential.
The candidate will be based in King Edward VII Hospital. Frimley North Outpatients has three main sites, King Edward VII, Parapet Breast Unit, St Mark’s Hospital and Wexham Park Hospital. Sites are operational between 0800 -1830 hrs Monday to Saturday.
The Outpatient team support multiple speciality clinics such as Oncology, ENT, Rheumatology, Breast, Orthopaedics, Allergy, Gastroenterology and Colorectal clinics.
You will act as an advocate for the patients, nursing and medical colleagues and actively participate in further developments and expansion of the outpatient’s service to help deliver the FHFT Future Strategy.
The post will also involve providing mentoring and supporting junior and new staff and all types of learners working in the department. You can enjoy:
· A full induction programme.
· A competency-based appraisal system
· Opportunities to undertake formal study and inhouse training courses.
• You will be expected to demonstrate high standards, displaying a variety of expert clinical competence, role modelling clear professional and organisational values inleading OPD areas, additionally managing service requirements and supporting the Senior team.
• In conjunction with Practice Development, you will assess and actively support the Registered Nurses and Care Support Workers to practice competently and develop within their roles to ensure a high standard of care and patient experience are maintained in line with the Frimley Health Strategy, vision and Values.
• Displaying clear professional and organisational values.).
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 threecore 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
• To lead and monitor the quality, performance and standards of care within the departments and nursing team.
• To ensure the implementation of the clinical governance agenda. This includes, but is not limited to, maintaining and reviewing standards of care on a regular basis, implementing changes to improve the service and ensuring systems are in place to manage all risk and to regulate professional practice.
• Carry out appraisals for bands 5, 4 and 2.
• To work with practice development lead and senior OPD team in facilitating the review and updating of SOP's policies, risk assessments and guidelines.
• Support students.
• Where issues of clinical competence and capability are identified, work with the Practice Development Lead and department manager to develop an action plan to support and overcome these.
• To lead, in conjunction with the senior sister, matron and practice development lead, the outpatient departmental meeting and educational half days, keeping up to date with the wider NHS and nursing agenda and initiative
• Pro-actively respond to complaints, follow these through and cascade information and learning to the wider team.
• To lead on projects as appropriate.
• To work with in conjunction with the Senior and multi-disciplinary teams ensuring excellent and effective communication is maintained.
• To liaise with Matron and Senior Sister with regard to untoward incidents, complaints and staffing concerns, reporting these via the RL system.
• To actively lead and embed local and national initiatives, models of working and service development into practice.
• To work with Practice Development Lead and Senior OPD team in facilitating the review and updating of SOP’s, policies and guidelines.
• To assist the Senior Sister / Charge Nurse in:
The recruitment and selection of nursing staff.
The Induction of bank/agency and new staff to the clinical area.
• To ensure compliance with all FH and OPD policies and guidelines, e.g. (but not limited to) consent, chaperoning, WHO checklist, COSHH, Information Governance.
This advert closes on Tuesday 12 Aug 2025