Job summary
- Main area
- Plastic Surgery / Burns / Ambulatory Care
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Sunday, Bank Holidays incl.)
- Job ref
- 321-NOTSS-7170027-B6
- Employer
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- John Radcliffe Hospital
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Hands and Plastic Injury Specialist Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 6
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.
Many of our recruitment programmes use Value 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. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values
Job overview
A new and exciting opportunity has arisen within the Plastics Trauma Service for a Specialist Nurse based in the Hands and Plastic Injury (HAPI) Clinic. The HAPI Clinic is an urgent care facility at the John Radcliffe Hospital, providing specialist Plastic Surgery assessment, treatment, including minor operations, and ambulatory care to patients across Oxfordshire. HAPI Clinic operates daily from 07:30 to 18:00, including weekends and bank holidays, with the Ambulatory Care service provided until 20:00 each day.
As a Specialist Nurse in the HAPI Clinic, you will be responsible for coordinating the care of patients referred to the emergency Plastic Surgery service and oversee the day-to-day running of the clinic. You will assess and provide specialist care to patients with acute hand and soft tissue injuries, including burns, and assist with minor operations in our designated procedure suite. In addition, the post holder will act as the key point of contact within the Hands and Plastic Trauma Service, actively coordinating care.
We are seeking an enthusiastic and flexible individual with a genuine interest in Plastic Surgery and urgent care. The role requires strong problem-solving skills and initiative to ensure high standards of care. Further specialist training and professional development opportunities will be provided as part of the role.
Main duties of the job
- Coordinate and supervise the daily running of the Hands and Plastics Injuries (HAPI) Clinic, which includes the ambulatory care service and minor operations (HAPI MOPS).
- Work at an enhanced level as a Specialist Nurse in Plastic Surgery, undertaking comprehensive assessments and delivering specialist care to patients with hand and soft tissue injuries, including children.
- Act as a role model and key point of contact within the Plastic Surgery Trauma Service, consistently promoting the Trust values.
- Coordinate and manage referrals to the Plastic Trauma Service in close collaboration with the on-call Plastic Surgery team
Working for our organisation
Over a thousand patients and colleagues assisted us in developing a set of values that will help us achieve our ambition of delivering compassionate excellence. To help us live out those values in our work, we have defined the types of behaviours that will either ensure we met the high standards we have set.
These are the values that should characterise all that we do and our behaviours with our patients and families and each other. Our values and expected behaviours are:
- Compassion: Putting patients at the heart of what we do and recognising different needs
- Respect: Encouraging a spirit of support, integrity, respect and teamwork
- Excellence: Taking pride in the quality of care we provide for our patients and customers
- Learning: Learning from successes and setbacks
- Delivery: Delivering high standards of health care for our patients and customers
- Improvement: Striving to improve what we do through change and innovation
These values and behaviours are extremely important to us and we expect everyone who works with us in any capacity, including employees, bank staff, contractors, agency staff, students and volunteers to share and uphold these values and behaviours.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care for patients and their families/carers attending the HAPI Clinic and Ambulatory Care Service. This includes the provision of care to children and young adults.
- Undertake daily clinical reviews of Plastic Surgery patients, delivering specialist wound care and treatments in collaboration with the Hands and Plastic Surgery team.
- Coordinate and provide ambulatory care within the HAPI service, including venepuncture, cannulation and patient assessment.
- Assist the Plastic Surgery team with minor surgical procedures in HAPI, including the preparation of surgical equipment, intraoperative assistance, documentation and delivery of post-operative care for patients having a minor plastics procedure under local anaesthetic.
- Facilitate daily meetings to review referrals to the Plastic Trauma Service, actively discussing and managing referrals with the on-call Consultant, in line with established care pathways.
- Act as a key point of contact for the Plastic Trauma Service, which includes the co-ordination, scheduling and communication of patient appointments, diagnostic tests and surgical procedures.
- Participate in local clinical governance activities, including audits, research activities, staff teaching/training and quality improvement initiatives with support from the Lead Nurse.
- Confidently utilise a range of IT systems, including (but not limited to) the Oxford Acute Referral System (OARS), theatre scheduler and Electronic Patient Records (EPR).
- Adhere to local and Trust-wide protocols, policies and guidelines, consistently acting in accordance with the OUH Trust values.·
Person specification
Essential and desirable
Essential criteria
- 6 month post registratation experience in ward/urgent care/acute setting
- Active registration with the NMC
- Competency in venepuncture/cannulation
- Experience in basic wound care
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience/training in Plastic Surgery
- Evidence of working as a specialist nurse
- Evidence of mentorship qualification / supporting students
- Previous experience/training in emergency or urgent care
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Bipanjit Puar
- Job title
- Lead Nurse for HAPI clinic
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 220 967
- Additional information
Please do not hesistate to email Bipanjit Puar, Eleni Fragkouli ([email protected]) or Claudio Ferreira ([email protected]) for more information about the service.
List jobs with Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Nursing and Midwifery or all sectors