Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
The successful candidate will be supporting the departments sisters for all aspects of the role, including managing junior staff, managing and delivering individual patient care, and co-ordinating clinics and clinic allocations. Support cross site service in both of the Orthopaedic and Fracture clinics, with your primary base being Gloucester Royal Hospital. Part of the role will be to assess complex wounds, supporting ongoing staff and patient education, and taking 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 patient information. We welcome new ideas and staff's innovations, as well as training and developing our staff. There are opportunities to gain competencies in 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 specialties
- Excellent communication skills, including negotiation and influencing skills
- Ability to facilitate and support learning in practice
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Team worker and effective member of a multi-disciplinary team
- Able to cope under pressure
- Proactive and 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
- Deliver safe care within a challenging and changing clinical environment
- Administer medication and treatment within guidelines
- Deliver and receive information which may cause emotional distress
- Participate in mentorship and educational programmes for students and other team members
- Adhere to all Trust policies and procedures and professional code of conduct
- Supervise and mentor unqualified/qualified staff and students
- Input and retrieve patient information from computer-based systems and maintain accurate and contemporaneous patient records
- Support multi-professional teams within the department
- Undertake specific delegated tasks following appropriate training and competency level
- Undertake all aspects of the role expectations and requirements
Most Challenging Part of the Job
- Motivating and engaging colleagues to ensure contributions to the divisional clinical governance agenda
- Working to tight internal or external deadlines
- Adapting quickly to changing priorities and time scales
- Overcoming scepticism and resistance to risk management principles
- Exposure to verbal aggression and resistance during incident investigation
- Dealing with difficult situations and people
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 knowledge
- Experience 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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