Staff Nurse

Job Overview

The post holder will play a pivotal role in coordinating specific Outpatient Department (OPD) areas, ensuring a consistent and visible clinical presence to support the senior team in the day-to-day operational management of the departments.

Key responsibilities include delivering high-quality, patient-focused clinical care, mentoring and supporting students, learners, junior, and temporary staff, and upholding the standards set by the Frimley Health Strategy, Vision, and Values.

The position requires flexibility, with a typical working pattern of four shifts per week between 08:00 and 18:00. The service currently operates Monday to Saturday, with Sunday opening planned in the near future.

Main duties of the job

You will provide focused, integrated clinical care under the direction of Registered Nurses (RNs), the Nurse in Charge (NiC), and the Senior Team, supporting the daily running of the Outpatient Department (OPD). A visible clinical presence is essential, working within the Frimley Health competency framework to deliver high standards of evidence-based care, treatment, and procedures aligned with patient needs and scope of practice.

You will support students, junior, and temporary staff, promoting learning while maintaining patient safety and care quality. A strong understanding of infection control principles is required, including participation in hand hygiene audits, adherence to aseptic technique, and compliance with all Frimley Health infection prevention policies.

You will ensure all activity complies with Trust and OPD guidelines, including policies on consent, chaperoning, the WHO surgical safety checklist, COSHH, and Information Governance. Working collaboratively with the RN, NiC, and multidisciplinary team, you will help coordinate safe and timely discharges following procedures and maintain excellent communication to support seamless patient care.

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

Please refer to attached Job Description and Person Specification for main responsibilities.

For any enquires in regards to this role please contact

Lina Batirashvili

Senior Sister

07786250444

Person specification

Special Requirements

Essential criteria

• Able and willing to work flexible shifts across sites including weekends and Bank Holidays.
  
  

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• RGN with current UK NMC registration
• Supporting Learners in Practice (SLIP) or similar recognised qualification
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Level 6 leadership course (E.G Mary Seacole
• Educated to Nursing Degree level or working towards degree pathway
• White Belt Training (Lean Competency System)
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Recent experience within an acute NHS healthcare setting.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience within Outpatients
• Minor Ops experience
  
  

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Effective communication skills (written and verbal).
• Ability to manage difficult/ stressful situations, working calmly and effectively under pressure.
• Able to prioritise workload and manage a specific clinical area.
• Effective time management, prioritisation, and delegation skills.
• Able to supervise and assess learners and junior staff.
• Effective team leader skills.
• Innovative, enthusiastic, self-motivated and ability to use own initiative.
• Awareness of current professional nursing issues.
• Ability to manage change within the working environment.
• Evidence of Band 5 generic clinical competencies.
• Excellent Computer skills, Teams, SharePoint, Excel, Word.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience supporting junior staff, students
• Evidence of proven leadership experience.
  
  

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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