Job overview

 Staff Nurse – Orthopaedic Outpatients Band 5 

Hello my name is Mohammed Khan,and I am part of an amazing, diverse, inclusive team, who are looking forward to recruit 1 full time and 1 part time staff nurses to join our team. 

Come and join us at the Royal United Hospital, Bath, Orthopaedic Outpatients for a Staff nurse role where a fantastic journey and exciting opportunities awaits you. We are looking to recruit enthusiastic, motivated nurses with excellent communication skills and a passion in providing exceptional care to our patients in our Trauma and Orthopaedic team. Recruiting caring, capable and committed staff is the key to maintaining our high standards of quality, safety and patient experience.

We are a fast paced outpatients departments run by a multidisciplinary service including clinicians, nurses, physiotherapists and orthopaedic practitioners working together to provide a patient centred, trust and community wide service.

We provide multiple interlinked services through the department, which are the Elective orthopaedic clinics, the Trauma and fracture clinics and the plaster room service working parallel and along with each other to provide highly skilled orthopaedic service.

As a staff nurse in this team, you will be looking forward be part of a very specialized and skilled service, we look for good communication skills as we are a large department with high patient flow. Ideally we are looking for nurses with orthopaedic experience to join our team. 

Main duties of the job

Patient Care Responsibilities

• Acting as a Named Nurse, to maintain accountability for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating programmes of care within the framework of team nursing
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Professional Development and Education Responsibilities

• To develop own teaching skills and participate in staff/student education programmes
• To help maintain a suitable learning environment for staff and act as a facilitator in the supervision and teaching of less experienced staff

Research and Development Responsibilities

• To assist in promoting nursing practice in line with relevant research
• To be aware of personal responsibilities in relation to the maintenance of a safe environment and identification of potential risks for all personnel, patients and visitors, taking action as and when required

Resource Management Responsibilities

• To develop and maintain an awareness of budgeting, exercising care and economy in the ordering and use of equipment

FLEXIBILITY

This job description is intended to provide a broad outline of the main responsibilities only. The post holder is required to be flexible in developing their role in agreement with their designated manager. In addition they may be required by their manager to carry out any other duty commensurate with their banding and expertise.

Working for our organisation

At the RUH we’re proud to put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone’s contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.

We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks – celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.

A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.

We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing. We’ve even got a pool.

We are committed to supporting you and hope you want to join our team. In the meantime, find out more about living, and working the beautiful historic city of Bath, learn about our extensive package of staff benefits, and read about how we’re providing healthcare fit for the future with