Staff Nurse - Ambulatory Emergency Care Unit
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Date: 1 week ago
City: Slough, England
Contract type: Full time
Job Overview
Exciting Opportunity: Band 5 Registered Nurse – Ambulatory Emergency Care Unit
We are looking for a dynamic and motivated Band 5 Adult Registered Nurse to join our Ambulatory Emergency Care Unit. If you have experience in acute medical care or emergency services and thrive in a fast-paced environment, this could be the perfect role for you.
This role offers an excellent opportunity to develop key skills, including triaging, history taking, physical assessment, and performing same-day emergency procedures for a diverse range of medical patients.
As part of our multidisciplinary team—including nurses, doctors, advanced nurse practitioners, medical technical assistants, and emergency healthcare assistants—you will play a vital role in providing timely assessments and management for acute medical patients. Our unit receives direct referrals from GPs and the Emergency Department, ensuring efficient patient pathways and helping to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions.
Working Hours
Monday to Friday: 8:00 AM – 9:00 PM
Saturday & Sunday: 9:00 AM – 9:00 PM
If you’re ready to take on a rewarding challenge and enhance your clinical expertise, we encourage you to apply!
Main duties of the job
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
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
Qualifications
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
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.
Apply online now
Exciting Opportunity: Band 5 Registered Nurse – Ambulatory Emergency Care Unit
We are looking for a dynamic and motivated Band 5 Adult Registered Nurse to join our Ambulatory Emergency Care Unit. If you have experience in acute medical care or emergency services and thrive in a fast-paced environment, this could be the perfect role for you.
This role offers an excellent opportunity to develop key skills, including triaging, history taking, physical assessment, and performing same-day emergency procedures for a diverse range of medical patients.
As part of our multidisciplinary team—including nurses, doctors, advanced nurse practitioners, medical technical assistants, and emergency healthcare assistants—you will play a vital role in providing timely assessments and management for acute medical patients. Our unit receives direct referrals from GPs and the Emergency Department, ensuring efficient patient pathways and helping to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions.
Working Hours
Monday to Friday: 8:00 AM – 9:00 PM
Saturday & Sunday: 9:00 AM – 9:00 PM
If you’re ready to take on a rewarding challenge and enhance your clinical expertise, we encourage you to apply!
Main duties of the job
- Triage acute medical referrals
- To be responsible for assessment planning and intervention in the management of acute medical patients
- To provide same -day emergency care, prompt safety and efficient management and discharge
- To work within a team that provides high quality care
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.
Frimley Health Trust benefits on Vimeo
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
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered General Nurse
- Current (or pending) NMC Registration
- Teaching certificate, Slip, Mentorship preparation for healthcare
Essential criteria
- Experience in caring for a variety of acute medical conditions
- Previous experience triaging emergency and acute medical patients
- Experience /placements in emergency care or acute medical departments
Essential criteria
- Awareness of current professional nursing issues
- Ability to manage change within the working environment
- Effective communication skills (written and verbal)
- Good interpersonal skills with the ability to manage difficult / stressful situations
- Able to train and supervise junior staff
- Able to manage a team in the absence of the team leader
Essential criteria
- To work in other areas of the department when required
- Able to work flexible shifts, weekends and bank holidays as required
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.
Apply online now
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