Clinical Coordinator

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., 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., 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.

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., You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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 - 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., 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. Find out more here www.ouh.nhs.uk

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