Clinical Specialist Nurse-ERAS | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 16 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £35,392 - £42,618 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 15 June 2024 |
| Location: | Headington, OX3 7LE |
| Company: | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6310854/321-SWR-6310854-B6 |
Summary
Do you have experience of managing Quality improvement projects?
Enhanced recovery approach aims to improve elective surgical care experience and outcomes for both patients and clinicians. The ERAS nurse collaborates with multidisciplinary team of surgical, anaesthetic, and nursing team, physiotherapist, Cancer specialist nurses, clinical support services, health, and wellbeing specialists. ERAS approach focuses on involving patients actively in their own recovery and ensure patients are better prepared ahead of their planned treatment and to manage recovery following discharge.
We are looking for passionate, dynamic individuals who can adapt, prioritise, and manage changing demands and own workload. You will be a confident, self-motivated, and autonomous practitioner with good problem-solving skills, enjoys working autonomously as part of a multi-disciplinary team and have an interest in own professional development as well as service development. Experience in elective surgery or acute surgical nursing is essential to the role, and you will work closely with other members of wider surgical team and key stakeholders.
If you are passionate about quality improvement and have experience of delivering quality improvement projects in your area and see yourself as the best person for this job, let us know more about you!
The ERAS service operates Monday to Friday from 8:00am to 4:00pm.
1. Monitor all patients planned for admission on the ERAS pathway pre-admission to ensure that all necessary preparation has been completed.
2. Review patients in the post operative inpatient phase through clinical notes, liaison with professional staff responsible for the patients care, and discuss with the patient directly to identify that treatment is following expected pathway.
3. Undertake regular staff surveys and reviews, to ensure that all staff groups are fully conversant with ERAS process, aware of their own and others responsibilities, and that staff can raise any issues, concerns or suggestions.
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.
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 the OUH YouTube channel.
1. Undertake continuous patient centred review of the ERAS pathway, exploring patient experience, communication, information and planning.
2. Analyse responses to reviews, identify trends, and work with relevant teams to resolve issues.
3. Provide written reports of outcomes of reviews as required.
4. Undertake practice hours in the clinical area where appropriate in order to inform the development of the project and the role and to maintain expertise.
5. Work with surgical speciality to identify how ERAS can be applied to their patient group and develop an implementation strategy
6. Discuss knowledge and experiences with other teams from within or outside the trust to share good practice and celebrate success
7. Represent the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as required at national and regional events.
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This advert closes on Thursday 30 May 2024