Children's Staff Nurse

Melanie's Ward cares for older children and teenage patients from all specialties within Children's services at the Children's Hospital Oxford. It is a diverse and interesting ward to work on and never dull! The age range is our specialty but we take acute medical, acute surgical, orthopaedic, respiratory, spinal, ENT, psycho-social, trauma, plastics, neurosurgery, gastro, urology, endocrine, mental health, and neuro sciences patients regularly.

You will be responsible for assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating nursing care, administering medications and therapies safely, monitoring patients' conditions, and responding to changes in clinical status.

The role involves working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, providing education and support to patients and their families, maintaining accurate documentation, and adhering to professional standards and trust policies.

You will also engage in continuous professional development to enhance your clinical skills and contribute to the delivery of specialist care on the ward., The main role of band 5 Registered Nurse will be:

1. Provide exceptional patient care which is underpinned by the best evidence based practice

2.Maintain and develop high standards of nursing care, reflecting the professional nursing practice and patient care

3. Supports the Senior Band 5 and 6s and 7s

4. delegate, supervise and support unregistered workforce and students with day to day duties

5. be self aware and responsible for their own training needs, skill enhancement and registration renewal

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 of four hospitals - theJohn Radcliffe Hospital,Churchill HospitalandNuffield Orthopaedic Centrein Headington and theHorton 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 thisDelivering Compassionate Excellenceand its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

Many of our recruitment programmes useValue Based Interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.