Emergency Nurse Practitioner - Oxford, United Kingdom - Oxford University Hospitals

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Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer the opportunity to join our team within Emergency Medicine as a Band Emergency Nurse Practitioner

We are looking for a motivated and innovative person who is an expert in Minor injury and illness management, to enhance our established service.

The successful candidate needs to have excellent communication skills, be able to manage themselves and others and be able to demonstrate their proficiency as an experienced ENP within the speciality of minor injury and illness management.

The successful candidate would be expected to provide a quality minor injury/ illness service to patients attending the Emergency Department as an independent and autonomous practitioner in line with the trust values.

The post holder will provide leadership to band six and student Emergency Nurse Practitioners, assist in their supervision, development, and management.

You will be responsible for monitoring and development of standards in the delivery of a minor injury / illness service, for the ENP, nursing and medical teams. This will include formal and informal teaching in the department and Oxford Brookes University .

You will assist in the development of research-based nursing practice within the Emergency Department, through the implementation of evidence-based practice.

The successful candidate will also be supported to enhance their own education through opportunities to pursue Master's level education.

This role covers a variety of shift times including weekdays, weekends and nights.

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 .