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Job summary

Main area
Orthopaedics
Grade
Band 5
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity cover secondment post for 12 months)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Both full & part time hours available)
Job ref
151-ZT088
Employer
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Frimley Park Hospital
Town
Frimley
Salary
£33,677 - £40,996 per annum inclusive of HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
27/08/2026 23:59

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Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust logo

Orthopaedic Staff Nurse (Open to Newly Qualified Nurses)

Band 5

Job overview

Trauma and Orthopaedics is recruiting! Working with us at Frimley Health will give you the chance to deliver care you can be proud of. We work closely as a Multi-disciplinary Team working alongside orthopaedic surgeons, our team of ward-based Ortho- geriatricians, Physiotherapists, Occupational therapists and trauma nurse practitioners, all striving to provide the highest standards of clinical excellence.

Once you are settled onto one of our orthopaedic wards there are a number of opportunities available that allow for development and exciting career progression. Our credited orthopaedic module provides the opportunity to develop further specialist skills such as the nurse-led facia iliac block service Frimley Park Hospital provides patients who have suffered fractured neck of femur. Whilst the opportunity to complete our Spinal Course at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital will set you up with skills to treat our most complex patients.

Open to newly qualified Nurses graduating in 2026.

Main duties of the job

There are plenty of opportunities to develop within orthopaedics, being supported in the completion of our ward based orthopaedic competency document. This guides you through your first few months on the ward, ensuring you have the right set of specialist skills to best care for our varied patient group. From learning how to care for spinal patients to those with complex fractures and everything in between, you will have the opportunity to shadow our trauma nurse practitioners as well as spend some time in other orthopaedic specialist areas such as theatres, fracture clinic and spinal injuries whilst becoming competent in delivering high quality care.

 

Working for our organisation

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 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.

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a complete overview of the role and main responsibilities, please see the attached job description.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered general nurse
  • Current (or pending) NMC registration
Desirable criteria
  • Undertaking or completed further academic study
  • Relevant specialist course
  • Mentorship qualification

Specific Competencies

Essential criteria
  • Effective written communication skills
Desirable criteria
  • Able to train and supervise junior staff

Professional Experience

Essential criteria
  • experience with working with multidisciplinary teams
Desirable criteria
  • Post registration Acute experience
  • Experience of caring for elderly patients with dementia

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyMenopause Friendly EmployerCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardWe offer Wagestream - A financial wellbeing benefit which lets you access your pay as you earn it.Disability confident employerWe Work Flexibly

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Bhawana Thapa
Job title
Senior Sister
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
03006136462
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