Registered Nurse

Job overview

Staff Nurse – Band 5 - multiple vacancies

Locations: Oxford, Banbury, Oxfordshire

Come and join the OUH team and become a part of our world-renowned teaching hospital and centre of clinical excellence!

Joining the OUH team offers you the chance to receive support as you transition from student nurse to newly qualified, allowing you to excel and grow your career. We have a variety of specialty areas and tailored career pathways to help you achieve your ambitions and fulfil your potential.

Our nursing teams benefit from an excellent practice development framework, offering continuous professional growth. We empower our nurses with a strong sense of professional pride, ensuring the highest calibre of patient care.

For more information or to arrange an informal conversation or visit please contact [email protected]

NB for all critical care areas, paediatrics and theatres please apply directly to these areas.

Please note that this advert may close early if a high volume of applications are received.

Main duties of the job

Whether you want to work in one of our fast-paced surgical wards, our leading cancer centre, our neurology and neurosurgery departments, excellent heart centre or refurbished and expanded emergency department, play a part in our regional major trauma centre or join one of our specialist medical departments, we have a vast array of options to develop and grow you as a nurse.

We have sites in Oxford and Banbury and satellite sites across the Thames Valley region for you to choose from.

Start the conversation with us today about our opportunities – and continue your nursing journey by contacting one of our specialist leads to explore the many career options we have to offer you, or apply directly via the link below.

Please note that applicants must hold full NMC registration or are a graduate due to complete their Nursing degree this summer.

Please ensure you include in your supporting statement why you have chosen OUH/Oxford, and the three top areas where you would like to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

- Demonstrate and promote a patient and family centred style of clinical practice. - Be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care from admission to discharge. - Accurately document and report to other members of the nursing team, multi-disciplinary team and family/carers regarding the care given to patients, and communicating changes as they occur. - Respond to emergency situations with composure, maintaining patient safety and seeking immediate support, and supporting the patient, family/carers and other staff as required - Identify and discuss patient needs with the team/staff, patients, carers and the multidisciplinary team. Be able to plan own workload. - Demonstrate a problem solving approach to effectively execute planning, implementation and evaluation of individualised plans of care based on a person centred model of care. - Communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to patients, carers and other staff, overcoming barriers to understanding and providing support during distressing or emotional events. - Maintain patient dignity and confidentiality at all times.