Endoscopy Staff Nurse - Oxford, United Kingdom - Oxford University Hospitals

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Job overview

The Oxford Upper Gastro-Intestinal Centre is a bedded ward caring for patients having undergone elective surgery for Oesophagogastric, Hepatobiliary and Endocrine surgery across the Thames Valley. This includes an acute care area within the ward for those patients with greater needs post operatively. The department provides an excellent range of services delivered by our multidisciplinary team and works with a wide spectrum of patients with unusual and complex conditions. We also have many patients on the ERAS (Enhanced Recovery After Surgery) pathway.

Working as Deputy sister within our team, will ensure an exciting opportunity to enhance your leadership skills, along-side improving your clinical expertise. The role will also help you develop a better understanding of managing a team and HR whilst providing support to the Ward Sister. The position allows individuals to develop complex skills through work experience, training, and educational opportunities.

The department is looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic, and experienced senior registered nurse to work within our team. We strongly believe in role modelling the Trust Values and use them to steer our behaviour in professional life, hence we are keen to recruit people who abide by the trust values of "Delivering Compassionate Excellence"

For more details or Informal visit please contact the Ward Sister,

Sarah Rapple,

Clinical Practice

To practice and promote professionalism with authority and expertise, acting as a role model and supporting, developing and supervising your team of staff

To provide a high level of clinical competence in the care of patients with complex Specialist Surgery conditions

To provide expert advice on nursing issues to members of the multidisciplinary team

To facilitate the use of excellent communication skills to support patients and their families in stressful situations and manage conflict promptly and effectively within the ward / department.

To ensure the appropriate undertaking and completion of audits, protocols and policies within the ward /department.

To ensure that all staff within your ward / department are supervised and supported in accordance with local and Trust policy and unit new starter pathways.

To ensure the effective and efficient use of resources, including the maintenance of stock levels of drugs and disposables within the ward/department.

To ensure the maintenance of accurate and legible patient records within the ward / department area whilst maintaining patient confidentiality according to Trust policy.

To support and facilitate professional practice development, research and project work.

To ensure that all nurses within the ward / department adhere to the NMC Code of Conduct.

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. 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 .