Job summary
New exciting opportunity for a band 4 Assistant Practitioner position in the Orthopaedic Outpatient Department within the Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital, allowing a dynamic working environment and development opportunities.
Main duties of the job
As a Band 4 Nursing Associate you will have a great opportunity to build upon your existing knowledge and skills. Being welcomed as part of our dynamic team you will assist the Doctors and Nurses running clinics for adults and children from Monday to Friday. In addition, you will develop skills in orthopaedics and rheumatology allowing you to work within a multidisciplinary setting.
About us
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trustis one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more herewww.ouh.nhs.uk
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Be responsible for assessing the health care needs of the patients. Communicating any concerns to the medical/nursing team which maybe detrimental to the patient care.
- To accept responsibility and be professionally accountable for co-ordinating the total nursing care for named patients, throughout their stay.
- To promote, and act as role model when communicating with all members of the multidisciplinary team to ensure the best possible care for the patients.
- Planning, implementing and evaluating the nursing care for a named group of patients based on sound knowledge and experience- and to actively support the effective implementation of Named Nursing
- To assist in orientation of new staff and provide support for other team members, gaining support by participating in / or leading clinical supervision to act as a mentor.
- To take an active role in team and department meetings, participate in department and trust teaching programmes thereby contributing to nursing development.
- To ensure the NMC, ward and trust policies are known, understood, and implemented, including sickness (Goodshape) and annual leave policies.
- Attend mandatory training sessions as required by the Trust and keep an accurate, up to date record.
- To act as a facilitator / link nurse for the department in an area of special interest and feedback to the team and ward.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Be responsible for assessing the health care needs of the patients. Communicating any concerns to the medical/nursing team which maybe detrimental to the patient care.
- To accept responsibility and be professionally accountable for co-ordinating the total nursing care for named patients, throughout their stay.
- To promote, and act as role model when communicating with all members of the multidisciplinary team to ensure the best possible care for the patients.
- Planning, implementing and evaluating the nursing care for a named group of patients based on sound knowledge and experience- and to actively support the effective implementation of Named Nursing
- To assist in orientation of new staff and provide support for other team members, gaining support by participating in / or leading clinical supervision to act as a mentor.
- To take an active role in team and department meetings, participate in department and trust teaching programmes thereby contributing to nursing development.
- To ensure the NMC, ward and trust policies are known, understood, and implemented, including sickness (Goodshape) and annual leave policies.
- Attend mandatory training sessions as required by the Trust and keep an accurate, up to date record.
- To act as a facilitator / link nurse for the department in an area of special interest and feedback to the team and ward.
Person Specification
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Essential
Desirable
education
Essential
Experience
Essential
Desirable
- phlebotomy
- previous outpatient experience
- IM injections
- ECG
- EPR
Person Specification
.
Essential
Desirable
education
Essential
Experience
Essential
Desirable
- phlebotomy
- previous outpatient experience
- IM injections
- ECG
- EPR
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.
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.
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
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Orthopaedic Outpatient Department, Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital
Windmill Road, Headington
Oxford
OX3 7HE
Employer's website
https://www.ouh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
