Job overview
We are a friendly, supportive team, dedicated to delivering outstanding patient-centred care within our bedded unit based at the John Radcliffe Hospital. We are a nationally renowned centre for specialities in Trauma; Vascular; Spinal; Orthopaedics, Specialist Surgery, emergency acute surgery, medicine.
With the combination of a fantastic team and working environment, it is a wonderful place to develop, grow and contribute to delivering the best patient care.
We are now looking for two exceptional Band s to join our leadership team for an -month secondment, to cover a secondment and maternity leave. You will be experienced critical care nurses with experience of operational management/bed management and be able to make decisions and navigate problems when they arise. You will work clinically, maintaining excellent standards of patient care. You will have strong interpersonal skills and be able to develop sound professional relationships across the whole MDT. You will have a passion to drive change and confident in leading new quality improvement initiatives across the unit - one post is a Unit Manager, the second post is a Governance Lead.
As a Band you will effectively manage and lead a team, ensuring they are supported, developed and nurtured allowing the unit to ‘grow its own’.
If this sounds like you and you would like to find out more please contact Deputy Matron. Proposed Interview date th February .
Main duties of the job
The successful applicants will work as clinical band s on OCC, providing high standards of care to the critically ill patients of Oxfordshire, and daily operational management of the service, along with the Churchill ICU. The non-clinical work associated with the first post will involve daily staffing and roster management, health and safety, compliance, audit, recruitment and all other aspects of departmental management. The second post will involve incident and investigation management and action planning, teaching, supporting staff and working with departmental and Divisional governance teams. There will be teams of bands - to line manage, develop and support. Close collaboration with the rest of the senior nurse team will be required, to ensure best practice and care standards are met.
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 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 .