Job summary
Are you an experienced and motivated nurse ready to take the next step in your career within a specialist plastics service?
We are seeking a dedicated Band 6 Junior Sister/Charge Nurse to join our Plastics team based at Wexham Park Hospital. This is an exciting opportunity to work within a forward-thinking service, delivering high-quality, patient-centred care across our Plastics Urgent Care Clinic and nurse-led Dressing Clinic.
You will play a key role in coordinating the care of plastics patients, ensuring a seamless patient journey and excellent clinical outcomes. Working closely with a skilled multidisciplinary team, you will provide specialist wound care, assist with minor procedures, manage referrals, and support the efficient running of clinics.
The role offers excellent opportunities to develop leadership skills, including supervising junior staff and students, contributing to audit and service improvement, and deputising for senior colleagues when required.
We are looking for an individual with strong clinical expertise, excellent organisational and communication skills, and a commitment to delivering compassionate care in line with Frimley Health's values: Committed to Excellence, Working Together, and Facing the Future.
In return, we offer a supportive environment, ongoing development opportunities, and the chance to be part of a respected plastics service. If you are passionate about making a difference, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will support the delivery of high-quality care within the Plastics service at Wexham Park Hospital, working as part of the multidisciplinary team (MDT) to ensure a safe, effective, and coordinated patient journey.
Key responsibilities include:
- Delivering excellent patient-centred care and coordinating plastics patient pathways
- Undertaking wound care, including post-operative and trauma dressings, from routine to complex
- Running nurse-led dressing clinics and supporting the Plastics Urgent Care Clinic with a high level of autonomy
- Making sound clinical decisions independently and in collaboration with the MDT
- Liaising with the trauma coordinator to support efficient patient flow and bookings
- Working closely with community teams, including GPs and district nurses, to ensure continuity of care
- Supporting minor procedures within the clinic setting
- Maintaining accurate documentation and contributing to audit and service improvement
- Promoting health education for patients and families
- Supervising and supporting junior staff and student nurses
- Taking charge in the absence of the senior nurse and supporting day-to-day service delivery
- Working flexibly across Trust sites where required
The role requires strong clinical skills, good organisational ability, and a commitment to delivering high standards of care.
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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Job description
Job responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to thisvacancy.
Person Specification
written
Essential
- wound care/skills and knowledge/evidence of wound management
Desirable
- tissue viability course/ undertake appriasals
certificate
Essential
- 1 yr experince and above/ relevent study and education gcse
Desirable
- tissue viability course/ undertake appriasals
qulifications /GSE/EXPRIENCE
Essential
- wound care/skills and knowledge
Desirable
- tissue viability course/ undertake appriasals
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Wexham Park hospital
Wexham street
Slough
SL24HL
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.fhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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