Job overview
This role will work alongside the ED Matron in ensuring effective service delivery, maintaining high quality patient care, achieving key performance indicators and management of the large team.
Main duties of the job
Job Summary
To provide professional nursing leadership in the Emergency Department, leading a patient centred nursing service in collaboration with the Matron.
To practice as a senior clinical nurse for at least % of the role, with professionalism, authority and expertise, action as a role model for other nursing staff.
To undertake full strategic and operational responsibility on behalf of the Matron in their absence.
To facilitate the efficient and effective management of resources within the Emergency Department.
In conjunction with the matron, to ensure that the standards of the service meet the strategic aims and development of the Trust.
Ensure the efficient and effective operation of the unit on a day-to-day basis.
Supervise and directly manage the senior nursing term in collaboration with the Matron.
As part of the senior nurse group contribute to the strategic development for the unit including the utilisation of resources which impact on the budget such as staffing, equipment and consumables.
To lead areas of development and responsibility as dictated by the requirements of the unit.
Participate in Silver Rota external to ED and acting as the divisional representative on the working day rostered.
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. 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.
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