Job summary
Coordinate the clinical in-patient management of plastic trauma in order to improve the quality of the patient's journey and patient outcomes through best practice. The plastics trauma coordinator will achieve this by working alongside clinical experts within the plastics department. The plastics trauma coordinator will also provide clinical support to the plastics urgent care clinic, being responsible for the assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care for plastics trauma patients (mostly open wounds to hands, legs and face and soft tissue infections). The post-holder will be working in a team and will need to coordinate efficiently with the nursing team, administrative staff, and surgical team.
Main duties of the job
KEY TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Work as part of the plastic surgery multidisciplinary team to coordinate and deliver high quality individual patient management plans.
- Attend the morning handover and ward round to review planned activity and ensure work is allocated appropriately and safely.
- Liaise with the surgical team to anticipate and organise extra theatre capacity to meet clinical demand.
- Work closely with the on-call plastic surgery team to ensure forthcoming theatre lists are appropriately booked.
- Reassess daily those patients unfit for surgery in liaison with the appropriate specialist teams to ensure that surgery is performed at the earliest and safest opportunities.
- Organize for specialist equipment to be available as required for surgical procedures.
- Work with the junior doctors to coordinate investigations, treatments and arrangements for patients receiving care in own speciality in accordance with established protocols and procedures.
- Ensure that trauma patients are fully informed of when and where they need to attend for their operation.
- Ensure trauma patients are given nil by mouth instructions as per the Trust guidelines. Inform patients and staff if these need to be changed owing to theatre availability to avoid inappropriate starvation of patients.
- Be a point of contact for the trauma coordinators at peripheral hospitals, in particular the orthopaedic coordinators at Frimley Park Hospital to ensure the safe and timely transfer of patients.
About us
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 threecore 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Plastics Urgent Care Clinic responsibilities:
- To be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of patient care with minimal supervision.
- To undertake basic wound dressing.
- To undertake complex wound dressings under the guidance of the plastics dressing sister and Advanced Nurse Practitioner for plastics.
- To assist the surgical team with minor procedures in the PUC e.g. exploring and suturing wounds.
- Liaise with the trauma coordinator in the booking of the PUC.
- Assist the trauma coordinator in taking telephone trauma referrals when necessary.
- Lead the Closed Hand Injury Clinic (CHIC) on Monday and Thursday afternoons including assessing patients under consultant supervision, writing in medical notes, booking x-rays, organising theatre slots, and referring to hand therapy.
- To implement and be responsible for maintaining high standards of patient care. 3
- To carry out all administrative and nursing duties as delegated by the Advanced Nurse Practitioner for plastics.
- To take charge in the absence of the advanced nurse practitioner
- To work as part of a multidisciplinary team
- To demonstrate a sound knowledge of infection control standards and promote these within the clinical environment.
- To assist in promotion of health.
- To act in accordance with policies and nursing procedures as per Trust policy
- To ensure confidentiality of patient records and high standards of nursing documentation.
- To ensure all training undertaken is evaluated to determine its effectiveness in practice and to ensure all objectives have been met.
- To assist in the auditing of patient care and service delivery.
- To use all resources efficiently and effectively maintaining an awareness of budgetary implications.
- To be responsible with the ordering of consumables and pharmacy
- Maintain accurate records, ensuring relevant information and outcomes are documented in the appropriate manner and in accordance with the trust policy.
- To provide supervision to student nurses and other learners within the scope of practice of the role. To educate patients, staff and families how to undertake basic wound dressings.
- To carry our appraisals for the admin staff within the team
- To assist in providing support and advice to the ward nurses where necessary in the management of wounds and vac therapy
Job description
Job responsibilities
Plastics Urgent Care Clinic responsibilities:
- To be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of patient care with minimal supervision.
- To undertake basic wound dressing.
- To undertake complex wound dressings under the guidance of the plastics dressing sister and Advanced Nurse Practitioner for plastics.
- To assist the surgical team with minor procedures in the PUC e.g. exploring and suturing wounds.
- Liaise with the trauma coordinator in the booking of the PUC.
- Assist the trauma coordinator in taking telephone trauma referrals when necessary.
- Lead the Closed Hand Injury Clinic (CHIC) on Monday and Thursday afternoons including assessing patients under consultant supervision, writing in medical notes, booking x-rays, organising theatre slots, and referring to hand therapy.
- To implement and be responsible for maintaining high standards of patient care. 3
- To carry out all administrative and nursing duties as delegated by the Advanced Nurse Practitioner for plastics.
- To take charge in the absence of the advanced nurse practitioner
- To work as part of a multidisciplinary team
- To demonstrate a sound knowledge of infection control standards and promote these within the clinical environment.
- To assist in promotion of health.
- To act in accordance with policies and nursing procedures as per Trust policy
- To ensure confidentiality of patient records and high standards of nursing documentation.
- To ensure all training undertaken is evaluated to determine its effectiveness in practice and to ensure all objectives have been met.
- To assist in the auditing of patient care and service delivery.
- To use all resources efficiently and effectively maintaining an awareness of budgetary implications.
- To be responsible with the ordering of consumables and pharmacy
- Maintain accurate records, ensuring relevant information and outcomes are documented in the appropriate manner and in accordance with the trust policy.
- To provide supervision to student nurses and other learners within the scope of practice of the role. To educate patients, staff and families how to undertake basic wound dressings.
- To carry our appraisals for the admin staff within the team
- To assist in providing support and advice to the ward nurses where necessary in the management of wounds and vac therapy
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
- Undertaking or completed further academic study
- Relevant specialist course
- Mentorship qualification
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of experience of providing high quality patient focused care in an acute or none acute setting.
- Previous experience in plastic surgery or surgical nursing.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
- Undertaking or completed further academic study
- Relevant specialist course
- Mentorship qualification
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of experience of providing high quality patient focused care in an acute or none acute setting.
- Previous experience in plastic surgery or surgical nursing.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
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Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
