Job Responsibilities
1. Provide specialist nursing expertise, facilitating evidence-based patient-centred care and assessment for a defined caseload of pre-assessment patients.
2. Co-ordinate patients throughout their pre-assessment pathway, with a high level of input into the management and care of patients prior to admission for specified procedures.
3. Act as a resource and provide education for patients and health care professionals.
4. Carry out relevant forms of care without direct supervision, working effectively within the multi-disciplinary team.
5. Support all members of staff within endoscopy, including nursing students and visiting healthcare professionals.
6. Suggest improvements in care provision, recognizing and challenging poor practice, raising concerns to the relevant agencies where appropriate.
7. Ensure that the nursing philosophy of care for Endoscopy is reflected in practice.
Main Duties of the Job
1. Ensure provision of a high standard of nursing care to patients attending the Endoscopy Unit, working within agreed policies and procedures.
2. Act as a liaison link with Specialist nurses and contribute to work involved in clinical trials, such as data collection.
3. Collaborate and consult with the multi-professional health care team and the patient, communicating sensitive, complex information.
4. Use highly developed communication skills to provide guidance, advice, and support to the patient.
5. Identify and overcome barriers to patient understanding while communicating complex, sensitive, sometimes distressing information.
6. Provide verbal and written information to patients to enable them to give informed consent for treatment, using specialist knowledge.
7. Establish partnerships with patients/carers and communicate with them in highly distressing or emotional circumstances.
8. Provide, receive, interpret, and communicate complex information with a range of health care personnel.
9. Act as patients' advocate, ensuring that informed consent, privacy, and dignity are maintained (NMC).
10. Carry out health promotion within the job role utilizing information leaflets and networking with other specialist healthcare staff around the Trust where necessary.
11. Critically reflect on own performance through supervision/action learning.
12. Maintain active status on the NMC register.
About Us
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country, providing a wide range of general and specialist clinical services. The Trust comprises four hospitals: the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, and the Horton General Hospital. For more information on OUH, please view OUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu.
Our values, standards, and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we maintain with our patients, colleagues, and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence, focusing 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.
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