Orthopaedic Staff Nurse (Open to Newly Qualified Nurses)

Job summary

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.

About us

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.

Job responsibilities

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

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered general nurse
• Current (or pending) NMC registration

Desirable

• Undertaking or completed further academic study
• Relevant specialist course
• Mentorship qualification

Specific Competencies

Essential

• Effective written communication skills

Desirable

• Able to train and supervise junior staff

Professional Experience

Essential

• experience with working with multidisciplinary teams

Desirable

• Post registration Acute experience
• Experience of caring for elderly patients with dementia