Job overview
Proposed interview date - Friday /
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Clinical site management team at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Applicants must be Registered Nurses with extensive and current experience in an acute hospital setting. They must be patient centred, have up to date clinical skills and an understanding of current acute hospital performance indicators.
ABOUT THE TEAM
The operations centre is often seen as the “hub” of the hospital where lots of decisions and plans are made in order to ensure the hospital is able to meet the demands of the emergency patients as well as the patients requiring an elective bed. The operations centre is also where the hospital runs its major incidents and Hospital internal management team meetings from. The team cover all the OUH sites, giving an amazing opportunity to expand clinical skills and knowledge.
Main duties of the job
WHAT YOU'LL DO
You will gain an invaluable insight into how the Trust responds to the ever growing demands of emergency and elective flow. You will be an integral part of the team that enables the Trust to function on a day to day basis which will involve being based in the operations centre and ensuring that patient flow and patient safety is maintained at all times. You will need to be a quick thinker and strong leader with excellent problem solving skills, able to negotiate sound operational decisions in rapidly changing situations, often under pressure so a calm and pleasant manner is essential.
WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU
As one of the largest acute teaching Trust’s in England, we can offer learning and development opportunities to help you achieve the career you aspire to. We believe you deserve the best possible surroundings in which to do your job and we want to support you in doing your job to the best of your ability.
As a Trust, we support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. You’ll have an opportunity to discuss this at interview.
Working for our organisation
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. For more information on OUH please view
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