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 coordinating 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 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 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
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. An ability to disseminate contentious and delicate information appropriately.
To deliver safe care within a challenging and changing clinical environment, using equipment and resources safely and as appropriate throughout the cross-county service provision.
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 members of the team.
To adhere to all Trust policies and procedures and professional code of conduct. To assist the department sisters in the implementation of policy and service.
Responsible for the supervision and mentorship for unqualified/qualified staff and students.
To input and retrieve patient information from computer-based systems and maintain accurate and contemporaneous patient records.
Supports 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 e.g. application of simple off-the-shelf splints and braces, remove plaster casts, record ECG, MRSA screening and venepuncture, arranging admission of patients to wards from clinic.
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 within the department
- 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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