Sister/Charge Nurse

Job Overview

Sister / Charge Nurse – Heathlands Intermediate Care Unit

We are looking to appoint a dynamic and compassionate Sister or Charge Nurse to join the Heathlands Intermediate Care team.

This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated and experienced nurse with a passion for elderly care and a strong belief in the ethos that “rehabilitation is everyone’s business.” You will play a key role in supporting patients to regain independence and confidence, enabling a safe and timely return home.

About You

• Registered Nurse (NMC).
• Substantial post-registration experience, ideally within a medical or elderly care setting.
• Confident in leading a team, managing shifts, and making autonomous decisions.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with a patient-focused approach.
  
  

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities

• Take charge of shifts, ensuring high standards of patient care and safety.
• Work closely with the Unit Manager, Matron, and medical staff in planning care and coordinating effective discharge pathways.
• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team including therapists, a Consultant Geriatrician, and community services to provide seamless, patient-centred care.
• Lead on liaison with patients and their families to ensure clear communication and a positive care experience.
  
  

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Successful applicant will be working in a very diverse culture and dementia friendly ward.

Please See Attached Job Description And Person Specification.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Current first or second-level NMC Registration
• Evidence of recent Continuous Professional Development
• Working towards gaining a teaching certificate
• Mentorship Course/ENB 998
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Teaching certificate
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Discharge planning
• Evidence of high standards of clinical practice
• Previous recent experience as a nurse
• Cannulation and Phlebotomy
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of supervision
  
  

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Effective communication skills (written and verbal)
• Teaching experience
• Ability to work without supervision
• Computer literate
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Ability to adapt to change within working situations
  
  

Special requirements

Essential criteria

• Flexible approach - able to work flexible shifts
• Interest in Named/Primary Nursing, Nursing Research and Health Promotion.
  
  

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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