Clinical Specialist Nurse-ERAS

2 weeks ago


Headington Quarry, United Kingdom Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

Do you have experience of managing Quality improvement projects?

Enhanced recovery approach aims to improve elective surgical care experience and outcomes for both patients and clinicians. The ERAS nurse collaborates with multidisciplinary team of surgical, anaesthetic, and nursing team, physiotherapist, Cancer specialist nurses, clinical support services, health, and wellbeing specialists. ERAS approach focuses on involving patients actively in their own recovery and ensure patients are better prepared ahead of their planned treatment and to manage recovery following discharge.

We are looking for passionate, dynamic individuals who can adapt, prioritise, and manage changing demands and own workload. You will be a confident, self-motivated, and autonomous practitioner with good problem-solving skills, enjoys working autonomously as part of a multi-disciplinary team and have an interest in own professional development as well as service development. Experience in elective surgery or acute surgical nursing is essential to the role, and you will work closely with other members of wider surgical team and key stakeholders.

If you are passionate about quality improvement and have experience of delivering quality improvement projects in your area and see yourself as the best person for this job, let us know more about you

The ERAS service operates Monday to Friday from 8:00am to 4:00pm.

Main duties of the job

Monitor all patients planned for admission on the ERAS pathway pre-admission to ensure that all necessary preparation has been completed. Review patients in the post operative inpatient phase through clinical notes, liaison with professional staff responsible for the patients care, and discuss with the patient directly to identify that treatment is following expected pathway. Undertake regular staff surveys and reviews, to ensure that all staff groups are fully conversant with ERAS process, aware of their own and others responsibilities, and that staff can raise any issues, concerns or suggestions.

About us

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 thisDelivering Compassionate Excellenceand 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 theOUH YouTube channel.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Undertake continuous patient centred review of the ERAS pathway, exploring patient experience, communication, information and planning. Analyse responses to reviews, identify trends, and work with relevant teams to resolve issues. Provide written reports of outcomes of reviews as required. Undertake practice hours in the clinical area where appropriate in order to inform the development of the project and the role and to maintain expertise. Work with surgical speciality to identify how ERAS can be applied to their patient group and develop an implementation strategy Discuss knowledge and experiences with other teams from within or outside the trust to share good practice and celebrate success Represent the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as required at national and regional events. Person Specification

Cancer care or acute surgical nursing experience

Essential

Minimum 2 years experience

Communication (presentation and public speaking)

Desirable

Presentation and Public Speaking skills

Project Management

Essential

Experience delivering projects/ change management

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