An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the small nursing team delivering care to patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD: Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis).
This is an interesting and varied post involving face to face as well as remote care, primarily in the coordination of IBD nurse interventions. Your input will be in specialist immunological treatments, managing the home testing programme, surgical pathways, patient information materials and other projects that give additional breadth to the role.
You will have support from the IBD Nursing team and, where needed training can be discussed around skills such as venepuncture, cannulation, and following agreed plans of care.
Personal attributes you will need are excellent organisational and communication skills. You must also be proactive and confident in discussions with patients and the multidisciplinary team to ensure safe and compassionate patient care. From a practical perspective this job would suit someone who is able to work within school hours each day and spread the 22.5 hours over the Monday – Friday week.
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• Work across departmental boundaries to coordinate with day case, pharmacy, surgery and administration to ensure patients follow appropriate pathways
• Ensure clinical areas are resourced and work alongside the IBD nursing and day case teams to deliver advanced therapies; cannulating, monitoring and taking blood tests
• Coordinate care through key transition points such as surgery, paediatric to adult care, home and hospital and between different treatments
• Manage home testing services; processing referrals, results for faecal home calprotectin and ensuring completeness of communication
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trustis 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.
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We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
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IBD Clinical Coordinator will be able to;
1. Maintain, advance and develop personal theoretical knowledge, high standards of clinical competence and professional development through self-education and attendance at relevant courses of study.
2. Contribute to the development of the service and presentation of the service to the multidisciplinary team with the IBD nursing team.
3. Ensure key educational resources are available as needed to the nursing team.
4. Identify educational needs of patients, families, carers and staff involved in the delivery of the IBD service and refer to the IBD nursing team as needed. Significant example points for education and support for patients and families are:
• • Patients going through transition from paediatric to adult services
• Patients with questions about the advanced therapy treatments
• Patients wanting to access their results
Service Improvement:
IBD Clinical Coordinator will;
1. Developing and delivering key pathways alongside the IBD nurse team will be key to this role
2. Assist in the evaluation of the IBD service and patient care, including monitoring of patient experience.
3. Identify areas of risk and poor quality, and address these through appropriate governance structures and forums.
4. Actively participate in projects that develop staff and unit profile.
5. Participate in and support research projects within the area on an adhoc basis.
6. Develop management skills in self and to teach these to junior staff commensurate with their grade.
7. Have responsibility to ensure annual appraisal, agree objectives which reflect local and national service needs and develop personal development plans.
8. Ensure statutory and mandatory training updates, as well as role /speciality updates are completed and necessary records maintained.
This advert closes on Thursday 19 Dec 2024
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