Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The successful candidate will be supporting the department's sisters for all aspects of the role, including managing junior staff, managing and delivering individual patient care, and coordinating clinics and clinic allocations. Support cross-site service in both the Orthopaedic and Fracture clinics, with your primary base being Gloucester Royal Hospital. Part of the role will be to assess complex wounds, support ongoing staff and patient education, and take part in audits to help improve patient and staff experience.
Why us?
We are a busy Orthopaedic and fracture clinic; we manage a variety of orthopaedic conditions and fractures. Across both sites, we have 28 Consultants who specialize in hand, feet, shoulders, hips, spines, and knees. We are a friendly and professional team who work with a variety of other multi-disciplinary teams. We are always looking to improve our service and have undertaken several audits and studies surrounding patient-centered care and information. We welcome new ideas and staff innovations as well as training and developing our staff. There are opportunities to gain competencies in the care of the cast and learn how to apply casts and splints.
Main Duties of the Job
What we're looking for:
- NMC registered
- Educated to degree level
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Registered Nurse with a minimum of one year post-registration experience desirable but not essential
- Wide variety of general nursing skills relevant to the different clinic specialities
- Communication skills, e.g., negotiation & influencing skills, to manage challenging situations and people
- Ability to facilitate and support learning in practice
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Team worker and effective member of our multi-disciplinary team
- Able to cope under pressure
- Proactive / uses own initiative
- Able to work independently
- Excellent role model
- Motivated and enthusiastic
- BCC (British Casting Course)
- Ponseti Course
Job Responsibilities
- The ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care with the multidisciplinary team
- Communicate effectively, especially where patient ability to do so is compromised
- To deliver safe care within a challenging and changing clinical environment
- To administer medication and treatment within Procedure for the Ordering, Prescribing and Administration of Medication Guidelines
- To deliver and receive information which may cause emotional distress to all parties
- Participate in mentorship and educational programmes for students and other team members
- Adhere to all Trust policies and procedures and professional code of conduct
- Responsible for the supervision and mentorship of unqualified/qualified staff and students
- Input and retrieve patient information from a computer-based system and maintain accurate and contemporaneous patient records
- Support multi-professional within the department, advising patients on pre-operative and post-operative care including wound care
- Undertake specific delegated tasks following the appropriate training and competency level
- Undertake the British Orthopaedic Association Course (BOA)
- Undertake the Ponseti Course and work closely with the Lead physiotherapist
Most Challenging Part of the Job
- Motivating and engaging colleagues to ensure all of the multi-disciplinary team contributes to the divisional clinical governance agenda
- Working to tight internal or external deadlines
- Able to adapt quickly to changing priorities and time scales
- Overcoming scepticism, antagonism, hostility, and resistance to risk management principles
- Exposure to verbal aggression and resistance during incident investigation
- Dealing with difficult situations and people
- Keeping abreast of national recommendations and guidance and ensuring compliance in a timely manner
Person Specification
Qualifications
- NMC registered
- Post registration development (Teaching and Assessing qualification)
- Plaster Course
- Educated at degree level
- Ponseti
Experience
- Wide variety of general nursing skills relevant to the different clinic sub-specialties
- Registered nurse with appropriate experience
- Mentoring/facilitation/teaching/assessing and coaching
Knowledge/Skills
- Act as a role model and exemplary leader
- Promote quality improvement initiatives
- Orthopaedic and Trauma
- Working in a clinic
- Plaster Room Skills
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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