Job overview

Are you a dynamic forward thinking professional, with a passion for trauma care? Do you want to experience everything that a multi site acute organisation has to offer, whilst leading on the coordination of the trauma service within Newham University Hospital?  We are able to offer the  opportunity to work within a highly specialised team of professionals,  managing a caseload of Trauma patients with varying diagnoses and complex needs. Interested? Then this job could be for you!

This role is for a band 7 registered Nurse .

You will need to utilise evidence based/ client centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions in a defined clinical area, ensuring the delivery of highest quality patient centred care possible.

 Ensure development of junior staff through supervision, training, and annual appraisal.

Contribution to the maintenance and development of the service and divisional objectives

Take a lead for information management to ensure high quality data, which is recorded, evaluated & reported in a timely manner.

 Participate in the planning, development and evaluation of clinical practice & service development within area.

Maintain professional standards, aligned to trust standards and values at all times.

Main duties of the job

Be professionally and  accountable for all aspects of own work and management of clinical risk within own clinical caseload.

1. Carry a clinical caseload of highly complex patients, providing advanced therapeutic assessment, evaluation and coordination.
2. Provide detailed written treatment plans with patient centred goals.
3. To work autonomously as a member of the multidisciplinary team, contributing to team discussions and influencing decisions about patient care programs.
4. Work collaboratively with the wider MDT to help coordinate patient pathways, including repatriation, complex discharge, referrals to complex rehabilitation and ensure timely completion of rehabilitation prescriptions
5. Support all aspects of service, leading on reporting and assurance for the service locally, also contributing to network and divisional reporting requirements.

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.  

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.  

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.  

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.