Job summary
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Trauma Nurse Coordinator to join our Urgent and Emergency Care Division at Doncaster Royal Infirmary. This is a pivotal role within our trauma service, providing expert clinical leadership, coordination, and support to ensure high-quality, patient-centred care across the trauma pathway.
You will act as a specialist point of contact for patients, families, and healthcare professionals, facilitating timely discharge, rehabilitation planning, and service improvement through audit, education, and research.
Main duties of the job
- Coordinate trauma care pathways, ensuring safe and effective patient journeys.
- Act as a lead specialist, providing expert advice and education to staff and patients.
- Support trauma governance, including audit, adverse incident management, and TARN data oversight.
- Lead and participate in service development, policy creation, and multidisciplinary meetings.
- Mentor and train staff, contributing to the development of trauma competencies across the Trust.
- Represent DBTH at regional trauma network meetings and contribute to national initiatives.
About us
DBTH is one of Yorkshire's Leading acute trusts, serving a population of more than 440,000. Our services are based over three main hospital sites and several additional services employing over 7,000 colleagues.
At DBTH we have a comprehensive framework of behaviours that guide us in our daily working lives, these form the DBTH Way. We pride ourselves on our commitment to the values of We Care and now the DBTH Way builds upon these foundations, providing further clarity on what it means to embody these values in our everyday interactions.
As an organisation that supports flexible working, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applicants from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including those with disabilities, members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.
We offer a range of benefits to support our people including:o Extensive range of learning opportunitieso NHS Pension Schemeo Generous holiday entitlement in line with Terms & Conditionso Comprehensive health and wellbeing supporto NHS Car Lease schemes and a range of salary sacrifice schemeo Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping and finance through external providers.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached to the advert a job description and person specification for further details. Please ensure you read this document carefully.Please note, if your application is successful you will be required to present original certificates of qualifications that are listed in the person specification under essential.
Certificate of sponsorship
Applications from individuals who require a Skilled Worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applicants. For further information and to check your eligibility for this post please following the link UK Visas and Immigration - GOV.UK. Please note that from April 9th 2025, band 2 & 3 entry roles are no longer eligible for sponsorship.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached to the advert a job description and person specification for further details. Please ensure you read this document carefully.Please note, if your application is successful you will be required to present original certificates of qualifications that are listed in the person specification under essential.
Certificate of sponsorship
Applications from individuals who require a Skilled Worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applicants. For further information and to check your eligibility for this post please following the link UK Visas and Immigration - GOV.UK. Please note that from April 9th 2025, band 2 & 3 entry roles are no longer eligible for sponsorship.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- NMC Registered Nurse*
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Substantial relevant post graduate clinical experience within Major Trauma, Orthopaedics, ED and complex injury cases
- Relevant post registration course e.g. Emergency Nursing, Critical Care Nursing, Orthopaedic Nursing
- Relevant trauma training Level 2 course i.e. Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC)
- Teaching/mentoring course
- Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD)
- Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Ability to communicate effectively at all levels across the Department, Trust and Network
- Knowledge of clinical governance issues
Desirable
- Competent in paediatric advanced life support
- Competent in ALS
- Support and/or pre hospital life support
- Leadership training
- Experience working with audit and analysing data
- Experience working with TARN e.g. data input and data analysis
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Experience of staff management and coordination of a trauma environment
- Knowledge to provide both professional and clinical supervision
- Ability to actively participate in meetings as required
- Aware of budgetary issues and procurement constraints
Desirable
- Professional Nurse Advocate
Personal Attributes and Skills
Essential
- Experience of communication with a range of staff at differing levels
- Ability to communicate complex information using a variety of mediums
- Ability to demonstrate enthusiasm towards teaching and sharing knowledge
- Ability to communicate and present information, orally and in writing in a clear and logical manner
- Effective presentation skills
- Ability to articulate clearly treatment processes with patients and relatives
- IT competent, familiar with Microsoft packages Self-motivated
- Able to prioritise, organise and delegate
- Ability to self-reflect, carry out tasks of own job and identify what s/he needs to learn to be able to do current job more effectively
- Ability to take an active role in agreed learning activities and keeps a record of them
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- NMC Registered Nurse*
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Substantial relevant post graduate clinical experience within Major Trauma, Orthopaedics, ED and complex injury cases
- Relevant post registration course e.g. Emergency Nursing, Critical Care Nursing, Orthopaedic Nursing
- Relevant trauma training Level 2 course i.e. Trauma Nursing Core Course (TNCC)
- Teaching/mentoring course
- Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD)
- Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Ability to communicate effectively at all levels across the Department, Trust and Network
- Knowledge of clinical governance issues
Desirable
- Competent in paediatric advanced life support
- Competent in ALS
- Support and/or pre hospital life support
- Leadership training
- Experience working with audit and analysing data
- Experience working with TARN e.g. data input and data analysis
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Experience of staff management and coordination of a trauma environment
- Knowledge to provide both professional and clinical supervision
- Ability to actively participate in meetings as required
- Aware of budgetary issues and procurement constraints
Desirable
- Professional Nurse Advocate
Personal Attributes and Skills
Essential
- Experience of communication with a range of staff at differing levels
- Ability to communicate complex information using a variety of mediums
- Ability to demonstrate enthusiasm towards teaching and sharing knowledge
- Ability to communicate and present information, orally and in writing in a clear and logical manner
- Effective presentation skills
- Ability to articulate clearly treatment processes with patients and relatives
- IT competent, familiar with Microsoft packages Self-motivated
- Able to prioritise, organise and delegate
- Ability to self-reflect, carry out tasks of own job and identify what s/he needs to learn to be able to do current job more effectively
- Ability to take an active role in agreed learning activities and keeps a record of them
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).
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).
