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.
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.
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. For more information on OUH please viewOUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu
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 this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and 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.
To provide and maintain high quality clinical care for patients, providing specialist advice, support and expertise to ward teams as required, especially out of hours. This will include participation in the Trust Emergency Response Team to cardiac arrest and other
emergencies.
Provide professional, advanced clinical support to junior doctors, nursing staff and members of the multi-disciplinary team working within the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust across all sites.
To coordinate the clinical handover process as per Trust guidance and operational protocol.
To effectively manage the Trust’s bed capacity over a 24-hour period, ensuring all emergency and elective admission processes meet both related national targets, local and national patient pathways and quality standards.
To liaise with clinical services and senior clinicians to expedite the admissions and discharge of patients, in accordance with Trust Policy.
Please refer to the Job Description for further information.
This advert closes on Sunday 2 Feb 2025
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