Job overview
SEU Triage Unit
Locations: Oxford
Come and join the OUH team and become a part of our world-renowned teaching hospital and centre of clinical excellence!
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
NB This advert is specifically for SEU Triage and will close early if a high volume of applications are received.
Main duties of the job
We have a fantastic opportunity for the right candidate, in our fast-paced Surgical Emergency Unit - Triage (SEU Triage): We are 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. SEU ambulatory sits as part of triage, reviewing patients who return daily for consultant led care.
For further details / informal visits contact: Emma Berry - Ward Manager SEU Triage
To succeed in this role, you will be a skilled and competent nurse with experience in an acute or Triage setting in the last months. You will have excellent communication skills to thrive in a busy team. You will be keen and capable to make positive impact in the care of patients requiring Emergency Surgical assessments and interventions.
An informal visit is good way to find out more about the unit
Please ensure you include in your supporting statement your motivation for moving to a SEU Triage are and what transfereable skills you will contribute in this fast paced envirionment
Interview date: April,
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.