Registered Nurse, Band 5- Trauma

2 weeks ago


Gloucester, United Kingdom Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

Registered Nurse, Band 5 (25 hours a week)

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust operates hospitals on our two main sites in Cheltenham and Gloucester, and we're one of the largest NHS trusts in the country.

Our workforce of almost 8,000 staff provides high quality emergency, elective and specialist care across a range of clinical areas

Main duties of the job

Professional values

You will act as a role model, demonstrating high levels of clinical expertise, managing and delivering individual patient care and co-ordinating clinic allocations.

Communication and interpersonal skills

Good communications are essential working with a multi-disciplinary team and our patients and their families.

Communication skills , negotiation & influencing skills, in order to manage challenging situations and people.

Ability to facilitate and support learning in practice.

Excellent IT skills and the ability to use appropriate Trust IT systems (Trak, Health Roster etc.)

Sensitive, empathetic and compassionate

Leadership, management and team working

The post-holder supports the department sisters in ensuring robust clinical practices amongst all staff.

Support cross county service in both of the counties Orthopaedic and fracture clinics.

You proactively promote staff education and development, ensuring its relevance to the practice area and individual needs

Actively promote robust infection control practices. Assist the department sisters to maintain high standards of cleanliness in the clinical area and for a well-maintained clinical environment.

About us

It is expected that all employees uphold the values of the organisation as our values underpin everything we do and describe the way we expect our staff to behave towards our patients, families and carers and between each other. We have the following three values:

Caring

Patients said: "Show me that you care about me as an individual. Talk to me, not about me.

Look at me when you talk to me."

Listening

Patients said: "Please acknowledge me, even if you can't help me right now. Show me that you know that I'm here."

Excelling

Patients said: "Don't just do what you have to, take the next step and go the extra mile."

Job description

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. 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 system 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 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, Experience and Skills

Essential

Educated at degree level NMC registered Post registration development (Teaching and Assessing qualification) Plaster Course Ponsetti Act as a role model and exemplary leader

Desirable

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 Plaster Room experience Promote quality improvement initiative Orthopaedic and Trauma Working in clinic Plaster Room Skills

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