Job overview

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced and dedicated individual to join our team at Heatherwood Hospital Elective Centre.

The post holder will act as a Arthroplasty Lead Nurse  for joint replacements procedures as well as a lead on the GIRFT Programme for HWD Elective Centre , fitting into an already well-established multidisciplinary team.  She / He will be responsible for maintaining on-going communication with patients as well as setting up patient support and discharge pathways. She/ he  will coordinate the team including the running of  MDTs, ward rounds,  complex case clinics, virtual projects and lead on new projects and pathways, They will need clinical orthopaedic skills and leadership skills, a knowledge of complex arthroplasty as well as wound management solutions, antibiotics and a drive to improve the care for this group of patients. They will also be leading on compliance with national standards as well as data upload to the National Joint Registry and Bone and Joint Infection Registry,  involvement with PROMs data and national audits relevant to Orthopaedic Department.

HWD Elective Centre has six operating theatres,  32  in-patient beds, 22 day-case procedure rooms or ‘pods’ , two endoscopy rooms, three minor procedure facilities  providing operations, diagnostics and outpatient care to both NHS and Private patients across Berkshire, Hampshire and Surrey.

Main duties of the job

• Work as a high-level practitioner with enhanced clinical skills within an interdepartmental and / or multidisciplinary team primarily to ensure that patients within their sphere of clinical expertise receive holistic, timely and quality clinical care
• Exercise enhanced clinical expertise, levels of judgement, discretion and decision making in clinical care, whilst maintaining a professional portfolio that supports their scope of practice
• Working autonomously in conducting clinical examination, formulating a working diagnosis and providing timely treatment interventions in accordance with their scope of practice
• Provides expert professional advice to patients, carers and colleagues
• Monitor and lead improvements of standards of care through; supervision of practice, clinical audit, implementation of evidence-based practice, teaching and support of colleagues and the provision of professional leadership
• Lead the implementation of new evidence-based practice and contribute to the development of the evidence through research, audit and collaboration with clinical or academic staff
• Contribute to clinical governance by leading quality improvement, audit and research projects as part of the multidisciplinary service-wide performance and quality agenda

Working for our organisation

There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. 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 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.

If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.