Staff Nurse - Outpatients
The closing date is 23 October 2025
Job summary
We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for a Band 5 Staff Nurse to join our friendly and dynamic team on a 2-year secondment (37.5 hours per week) at the Main Outpatient Department, Heatherwood Hospital.
Our department delivers high-quality care to both adult and paediatric patients, providing a wide range of outpatient services seven days a week (Monday to Sunday, 08:00 - 18:00). The department is made up of five zones, each with a variety of clinical consultation and procedure rooms designed to support diverse patient needs.
Our dedicated team is committed to delivering high-quality, evidence-based, and patient-centred care, ensuring the best possible outcomes and experiences for all who use our services. We foster an environment that supports professional development and encourages clinical excellence within a collaborative and supportive setting.
*Please note, this role is suitable for Newly Qualified Nurses, including those due to qualify in the coming months*
Main duties of the job
- To assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care working as a member of team under the direction of the NIC.
- To be responsible for the organising and co-ordination of nursing services in the department in the absence of senior staff on a regular basis.
- To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
- To be responsible for all nursing care standards and to maintain high clinical standards.
- To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which.
- Engages, enables, and empowers others.
- Uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
- To be accountable as a prominent role model, leading by example, demonstrating diverse expert clinical skills, clear professional and organisational values while overseeing the OPD areas.
- Taking responsibility for the planning, practice and evaluation of nursing care ensuring that the highest standard and quality of nursing care is delivered.
- To work with the clinical nurse specialists and wider MDT in developing and providing specialised nursing care programmes to a diverse range of patients and to ensure support to carers.
- Ensure the highest standard and quality of nursing care is delivered.
- Participate in clinical activity.
About us
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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Details
Date posted
16 October 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 5
Salary
£32,602 to £39,686 a year per annum incl HCAS
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
2 years
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
151-JLM543
Job locations
Heatherwood Hospital
Brook Avenue
Ascot
SL5 7GB
Employer details
Employer name
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Heatherwood Hospital
Brook Avenue
Ascot
SL5 7GB
Employer's website
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