Children's Staff Nurse - Emergency Department
This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to join our team. If you have an interest in emergency nursing and share our commitment to delivering high standards of care, we would love to hear from you.
We are looking for an experienced Children's Nurse who has either previously worked within an emergency care setting or has strong ward-based experience and is looking to develop their skills within this dynamic and rewarding environment.
We are seeking motivated and compassionate staff to join our friendly and supportive department. While this is a fast-paced clinical area, we offer excellent learning and development opportunities, along with the support needed to gain new skills and progress your career.
There is also the opportunity for this role to work across both the John Radcliffe Hospital and Horton General Hospital sites, providing a varied and enriching experience.
If you are looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to make a real difference to children, young people and their families, this could be the role for you.
Independently assess, plan, implement and evaluate the nursing care for a defined caseload of patients
Assume responsibility for individual clinical areas within the unit
Maintain and continually develop specialist knowledge of nursing practice relevant to individual clinical area
Contribute to the development of others through supervision, mentoring and teaching
Contribute toward the continuing development of professional nursing practice in the Emergency Department
To follow trust guidance in regards to safe guarding
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 www.ouh.nhs.uk
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 OUH YouTube channel .
The post holder will:
Deliver a patient centred style of practice that reflects and promotes the beliefs and values of professional nursing practice within the Emergency Department
Independently assess, deliver and evaluate care to a defined caseload of patients
Assume coordinating responsibility for individual clinical areas, proactively resolving problems identified within the individual clinical area
Set and maintain standards of practice, conduct or decision making in conjunction with Sister / Charge Nurse / Matron / Senior Nursing Team
Accurately document and report to other members of the nursing and multidisciplinary team information regarding the care given to patients, communicating changes as they occur
Supervise, mentor, support and educate pre-registration nurses, undergraduate nurses, and other members of the multidisciplinary team in the clinical practice setting
Liaise with other health care professionals with on-going responsibility for patient care
Adhere to the code: Standards of conduct, performance and ethics for nurses and midwives
Demonstrate a commitment to research based practice and clinical excellence. Play an active part in the introduction of research-based change to improve patient centred care
Demonstrate awareness and understanding of accountability, responsibility and duty of care. Support and educate junior staff of the implications for practice
