Trauma Co-ordinator - Lincoln, United Kingdom - United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
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An opportunity has arisen within the trauma and orthopaedic department for an experienced, enthusiastic nurse to become a band 6 Trauma Co-ordinator working at Pilgrim Hospital.


The aim is to provide cover 7 days a week to new trauma patients and ensure they are managed and treated within a timely manner.


The role demands that you work alongside the orthopaedic nursing team and support the on-call orthopaedic surgical team in the assessment and admission of orthopaedic trauma patients includes planning a programme of care for patients from admission to theatre and beyond.


The post holder will ideally have a minimum of two years orthopaedic experience at band 5 within a trauma or orthopaedic environment.

Extended roles such as ECG, cannulation and venepuncture are desirable.


It is essential that the applicant have management and organisational skills, with a calm and professional manner when dealing with the often stressful service demands.

They should be proactively managing and helping to develop the orthopaedic trauma services.

Applicants are expected to be flexible in working long days and early shifts including weekends but not nights.

Please note this position will not commence until April 1st or after.

  • To be responsible for the coordination of the multidisciplinary team input surrounding patients admitted under the care of the oncall orthopaedic team.
  • Ensure patients receive appropriate treatment in a timely manner in line with trust policy and guidelines of best practice.
  • To provide and maintain high standards of clinical and nursing care within the orthopaedic speciality and lead in the audit of evidence based outcomes.
  • To support the trauma ward, A&E, theatres and fracture clinic in the successful management of patients between the departments.
  • To undertake specialist investigations and analyse the results to support the examining clinicians.
  • To ensure patients on the virtual fracture clinic are followed up appropriately and complete telephone calls for patients that do not require face to face appointments
  • To support and work closely with the nursing team in the Trauma assessment unit


Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people.

We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (20/21) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.


Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement - "Outstanding Care Personally Delivered" - stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.


We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from 'Requires Improvement' to 'Good'. Our rating for caring remained as 'Good'.


This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.


We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.

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