Registered Nurse Headington in Oxford

Are you ready for a new opportunity? Do you have an interest or experience in Plastic Surgery or Minor Operations procedures? Would you like to work in an Outpatient setting? An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our nursing team, within the Specialist Surgery Outpatient Nursing team working in the Plastic Surgery Minor Operations Service based at the NOC. We are looking for a Band 5 Registered Nurse, who has an interest in Outpatient / Theatre Nursing to join our team! If you have a passion for delivering high quality, compassionate care and working closely within a dynamic team this is the perfect role for you.

We are a friendly patient centred department delivering high quality compassionate care with integrity and respect within our variety of elective & Plastic surgery trauma Minor Ops service, working alongside consultants and the wider MDT. This post will focus and support the work within our Plastic surgery minor ops service, but will involve work in some of our other clinics too. We hold outpatient clinics for a wide variety of specialties, and no two days are the same. The Outpatient's Department is open 5 days a week, excluding bank holidays, opening hours from 7.30am until 6pm on weekdays. Informal visits are highly recommended and encouraged.

Main duties of the job

• To ensure excellent patient care by planning and implementing the relevant procedures to meet the individual needs of the patients attending the NOC MOPs service maintaining patient records accordingly.
• Be responsible for the assessment of care needs for the patients attending the Outpatients department, including the development, implementation and evaluation of care.
• To contribute to the effective running of our minor operations service, liaising with multidisciplinary teams to ensure continuity of patient care.
• Actively contribute to the continuing development of nursing practice and to act as a mentor for pre and post registration students.
• The post holder must be aware of the individuals responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work Act and identify and report, as necessary any untoward incident or accident or potentially hazardous environment.

About us

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is 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. 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.

In 2023 NHS England launched its first sexual safety charter, and our Trust proudly signed it. We pledge zero tolerance for inappropriate sexual behaviour and commit to the ten core principles Oxford University Hospitals promotes a safe, respectful hiring environment. If you want to make a difference with us, come and join our team. Together, we will uphold the highest standards of care and professionalism.

Job responsibilities

• The key activities/roles for this post in relation to the Minor operation service include, but are not limited to, supporting the effective running of the theatre lists both from the pre operative room and/or the clinic base.
• In terms of minor operations theatre room activity, the postholder will be expected to undertake and assist in the scrubbing and circulating, offer advice to colleagues (registered & non-registered) and patients regarding post operative instructions and advice, provide information surrounding the care of wounds, administer medications as necessary, give medication advice, be involved in the ordering of necessary consumables used in the service.
• Role activities in relation to other clinics include, but again are not limited to, chaperoning in clinic, undertaking and documenting physiological observations to aid the Doctors in the direct care of patients (such as height, weight, blood pressure), being actively involved in the care of unwell patients when necessary and supporting their colleagues in these events, carrying out investigations within the department such as phlebotomy or urinalysis/pregnancy testing or sign-posting patients to other department when the investigations are external to the department for example X-ray or ECG.
• The registered nurse, once competent, may also act as scrub nurse within the minor operation theatre and offer post-procedure care/advice to the patient once the procedure is complete.
• The Registered Nurse is also necessary to ensure staff staffing levels across the full working / operational times of the department.
• The post-holder will also be expected to support both medical and nursing students who may be on placement/education days in the department, helping them to have a positive experience of the Outpatient environment.
• Registered nurses within the outpatient department act as role models and are a source of support and leadership for their junior and/or non-registered colleagues, undertaking annual appraisals with a small number of junior colleagues, and being involved in wellbeing activity/tasks with the same small group of junior colleagues; it is expected that on occasion the registered nurse may co-ordinate the department as the senior nurse.

Person Specification

Essential Criteria

• Holds current UK NMC Registration, with evidence of continuing professional development.
• BSc Nursing Degree.
• Willing to undertake self-development activities to improve clinical knowledge & skills, such as training to apply plaster casts.
• Demonstrates the ability to deliver excellent patient care, highlighting with compassion, enthusiasm, and self-motivation.
• Demonstrates good command of written and spoken English, giving examples of excellent communication skills used in practice.
• Theatre scrub / circulating experience.

Desirable Criteria

• Have an interest, or experience, of Plastic surgery.
• Achieved or working towards peri-operative management course.

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.

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Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact: Matron Bernadette Mitchell Bernadette.mitchell@ouh.nhs.uk 01865231201