Job summary
- Main area
- Trauma & Orthopaedic
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent: weekdays
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (weekdays (No weekends and Night shifts))
- Job ref
- 151-ES98
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Frimley Park Hospital
- Town
- Frimley
- Salary
- £28,859 - £31,670 per annum incl HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/01/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Nurse Associate
Band 4
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Nurse Associate to join our dedicated and compassionate nursing team in Trauma & Orthopaedics as permanent and secondment post. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual who is committed to delivering safe, high-quality, and person-centred care.
As a valued member of our team, you will play a key role in supporting the implementation of Team Nursing, taking responsibility for your allocated patients and ensuring care is delivered to the highest standard.
About you:
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You will be a Registered Nurse Associate (NMC registered).
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You will have excellent communication and organisational skills.
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You will be a team player, flexible in your approach, and able to work effectively in a busy environment.
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You will have a passion for delivering exceptional care and supporting others to achieve the same.
If you are committed to making a difference to patient care and would like to develop your skills within a supportive and forward-thinking team, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
- Providing excellent patient care and ensuring that patients always come first.
- Undertaking a range of delegated clinical care duties within your level of competency, acting on your own initiative to deliver agreed care plans.
- Supporting the implementation and maintenance of Team Nursing within the clinical area.
- Accurately recording and reflecting care provided in the electronic patient record system (EPIC).
- Mentoring and supporting new care assistants as they complete the Care Certificate.
- Ensuring patients receive compassionate, high-quality care and an excellent patient experience, with respect for their customs, religious beliefs, and personal preferences.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more information on the main responsibilities of this role please see the attached job description and person specification
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered nursing associate on the NMC register
- GCSE grade A- C
Desirable criteria
- Level 3 Health related qualificaction
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in teams under appropriate supervision as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Experience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive information
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of involvement in support / development of less experienced staff
Skills
Essential criteria
- IT knowledge e.g word and excel
- Communication skills
- Ability to organise and prioritise
- Ability to support, supervise, assess and act as a role model to nursing associate students, other learners and health care support workers as required within the clinical setting.
- Understanding of the scope of the role of the Nursing Associate in context of the nursing and interdisciplinary team and the organisation
- Ability to deal with nonroutine and unpredictable nature of workload and individual patient contact
Desirable criteria
- Practice Supervisor and Assessor Preparation
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Suk Maya Tamang
- Job title
- Senior Sister
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03006133388
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