Job overview
Foundation/Senior Staff Nurse – Band - NOC Discharge Lounge
Locations: Oxford, Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital (NOC)
We would like to welcome you to join our team and be part of our world-renowned teaching hospital and centre of clinical excellence!
Our nursing teams are supported by an excellent framework of practice development, offering ongoing professional development where our nurses are empowered and instilled with a strong sense of professional pride, ensuring that we deliver the highest calibre of care to our patients!
Joining our team provides an opportunity for you to grow your career. Whether you are starting as a newly qualified or an experienced registered nurse, we have a variety of specialty areas for you to choose from, and career pathways tailored to you so you can achieve your ambitions and fulfil your potential.
Please note that applicants must hold full NMC registration.
This advert may close early if a sufficient amount of applications are received.
Main duties of the job
We are currently seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, problem-solving, organised Band experienced nurse.
-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.
- Respond to emergencies with composure, maintaining patient safety and seeking immediate support, and supporting the patient, family/carers and other staff as required
-to maintain patient flow throughout the hospital
- Be able to plan one's own workload.
- Demonstrate a problem-solving approach to effectively execute planning, implementation and evaluation of individualised plans 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.
Working for our organisation
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. Find out more here
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.