Registered Nurse, Band 5- Trauma & Orthopaedics

Job overview

Registered Nurse, Band 5 (37.5) hours per 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 e.g., 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.

Detailed job description and main 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 e.g.  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.

Staff nurse must complete the Ponsetti and Plaster course training.