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To work as a member of the Outpatient Team as a competent practitioner. To facilitate a high standard, efficient and friendly service for patients attending Clinics and Procedures in the Outpatient department.
To meet service objectives and work within the operational policy. To maintain a safe working environment.
On a regular basis, accept the responsibility for the management/leadership of the department in the absence of the senior nurse. To participate in the supervision and teaching of staff and students.
To ensure that all duties required to assist the clinician performing the clinic are completed in a timely manner to ensure the best patients experience possible. To be mindful at all times of the impact on patients of own actions.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Outpatients Team at Wye Valley NHS Trust. The successful candidate will rotate within the outpatient departments to enable multi-disciplinary team working, and be expected to gain competence in many clinical skills to support the wide variety of specialities within the department.
The job will involve leading the teams and areas on a daily basis as the nurse in charge, managing admission, providing complex wound care, application of orthotics, scrub for minor procedures, venepuncture, ECG's and administrative roles required in Outpatient Clinics.
To participate in and ensure that staff within the clinical area deliver evidence based nursing care in line with Trust policies, procedures and guidelines.
To take charge of the team in the absence of senior nurses and ensure the smooth running of the department.
To be an effective team member, participating in the process of positively encouraging and supporting colleagues to maintain and improve standards of quality practice.
To receive patients into the unit, complete first line clinical assessments verification of the patients ID, height, weight, BMI, venepuncture, basic observations NEWS2, Specimen Collection, ECGs, Sigmoidoscopy Assistant, Application of Orthotics, Aseptic Non-Touch Technique (ANTT), Removal of clips and sutures, Outpatient Procedure Room Scrub and circulating skills.
To practice as a named nurse/team leader taking responsibility for a defined clinic and or caseload of patients on a continuing basis.
Participates in teaching in the clinical areas as required.
To promote collaborative working partnership and effective communication between all members of the multi-disciplinary team.
To coordinate the patient flow through clinic, calling the patients through and escorting them to the clinicians room in a timely manner.
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT, the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care wed want for our family and friends.
More than 3,500 people work for the Trust they tell us its a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.
Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right timeall the time.
To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view supporting documents linked to this vacancy.
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