Job summary
Foundation/Senior Staff Nurse - Band 5 - multiple vacancies
Locations: Oxford, Banbury, Oxfordshire
Calling all Adult and Dual Trained Graduate Nurses due to qualify in 2025!
OUH is now recruiting graduate nurses due to qualify summer 2025!
Come and join the OUH team and become a part of our world-renowned teaching hospital and centre of clinical excellence!
As a newly qualified nurse, your first role is crucial. A supportive and friendly environment where you can thrive is key.
Joining the OUH team offers you the chance to receive support as you transition from student nurse to newly qualified, allowing you to excel and grow your career. We have a variety of specialty areas and tailored career pathways to help you achieve your ambitions and fulfil your potential.
Our nursing teams benefit from an excellent practice development framework, offering continuous professional growth. We empower our nurses with a strong sense of professional pride, ensuring the highest calibre of patient care.
For more information or to arrange an informal conversation or visit please contact nursing.careers@ouh.nhs.uk
NB for all critical care areas, paediatrics and theatres please apply directly to these areas.
Please note that this advert may close early if a high volume of applications are received.
Main duties of the job
Whether you want to work in one of our fast-paced surgical wards, our leading cancer centre, our neurology and neurosurgery departments, excellent heart centre or refurbished and expanded emergency department, play a part in our regional major trauma centre orjoin one of our specialist medical departments, we have a vast array of options to develop and grow you as a nurse.
We have sites in Oxford and Banbury and satellite sites across the Thames Valley region for you to choose from.
Start the conversation with us today about our opportunities - and continue your nursing journey by contacting one of our specialist leads to explore the many career options we have to offer you, or apply directly via the link below.
Please note that applicants must hold full NMC registration or are a graduate due to complete their Nursing degree this summer.
Please ensure you include in your supporting statement why you have chosen OUH/Oxford, and the three top areas where you would like to work.
Interview date: 25th February 2025
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 of four hospitals - theJohn Radcliffe Hospital,Churchill HospitalandNuffield Orthopaedic Centrein Headington and theHorton General Hospital in Banbury.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Demonstrate and promote a patient and family centred style of clinical practice.- Be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care from admission to discharge.- Accurately document and report to other members of the nursing team, multi-disciplinary team and family/carers regarding the care given to patients, and communicating changes as they occur.- Respond to emergency situations with composure, maintaining patient safety and seeking immediate support, and supporting the patient, family/carers and other staff as required- Identify and discuss patient needs with the team/staff, patients, carers and the multidisciplinary team. Be able to plan own workload.- Demonstrate a problem solving approach to effectively execute planning, implementation and evaluation of individualised plans of care based on a person centred model of care.- Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to patients, carers and other staff, overcoming barriers to understanding and providing support during distressing or emotional events.- Maintain patient dignity and confidentiality at all times.
Surgical Emergency Unit Triage:a fast paced and dynamic emergency assessment area, reviewing patients directly from ED, GP, paramedics etc. We see a variety of patients such as colorectal, upper GI and HPB. Nurses take part in rapid nurse assessments, cannulation, venepuncture, and various other extended nursing skills which we will help you develop. Many of our patients have complex needs with co-morbidities which require ongoing management. SEU ambulatory sits as part of triage, reviewing patients who return daily for consultant led care.
Osler Respiratory Unit -
''At Osler Respiratory Unit, we care for acutely unwell, high-dependency patients with dedication and pride.
Join a team that thrives on exceptional teamwork and continuous learning!''
For further details / informal visits contact:
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Demonstrate and promote a patient and family centred style of clinical practice.- Be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care from admission to discharge.- Accurately document and report to other members of the nursing team, multi-disciplinary team and family/carers regarding the care given to patients, and communicating changes as they occur.- Respond to emergency situations with composure, maintaining patient safety and seeking immediate support, and supporting the patient, family/carers and other staff as required- Identify and discuss patient needs with the team/staff, patients, carers and the multidisciplinary team. Be able to plan own workload.- Demonstrate a problem solving approach to effectively execute planning, implementation and evaluation of individualised plans of care based on a person centred model of care.- Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to patients, carers and other staff, overcoming barriers to understanding and providing support during distressing or emotional events.- Maintain patient dignity and confidentiality at all times.
Surgical Emergency Unit Triage:a fast paced and dynamic emergency assessment area, reviewing patients directly from ED, GP, paramedics etc. We see a variety of patients such as colorectal, upper GI and HPB. Nurses take part in rapid nurse assessments, cannulation, venepuncture, and various other extended nursing skills which we will help you develop. Many of our patients have complex needs with co-morbidities which require ongoing management. SEU ambulatory sits as part of triage, reviewing patients who return daily for consultant led care.
Osler Respiratory Unit -
''At Osler Respiratory Unit, we care for acutely unwell, high-dependency patients with dedication and pride.
Join a team that thrives on exceptional teamwork and continuous learning!''
For further details / informal visits contact:
Person Specification
application form
Essential
- NMC registered / Due to complete course
Desirable
- Previous Nursing experience
Person Specification
application form
Essential
- NMC registered / Due to complete course
Desirable
- Previous Nursing experience
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).
