Job summary
- Main area
- Practice Development & Education Lead (RN/ODP) Operating Theatres
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (days/evenings/weekends)
- Job ref
- 321-NOTSS-6297808-B7
- Employer
- Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- West Wing Operating Theatres, John Radcliffe Hospital
- Town
- Headington, Oxford.
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/07/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 25/07/2024
Employer heading
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Practice Development & Education Lead (RN/ODP) Operating Theatres
NHS AfC: Band 7
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.
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
Are you an experienced theatre practitioner with enthusiasm for education? We are currently looking for a Practice Development & Education Lead (RN/ODP) who is credible, dynamic, motivated and well organised to lead the provision of high quality clinical practice and education in theatres.
This is a great opportunity to join our diverse and dynamic teams. We have 19 theatres in two departments where you can gain a wide variety of experience. The John Radcliffe Main Operating Theatre Department has five theatres where routine and emergency surgery takes place. The West Wing Operating Theatre Department has 14 theatres and provides specialist surgery for adults and children. Specialties include E.N.T., Ophthalmology, Neurology, Children’s (Orthopaedics & General), Plastics and Max Fax’s surgery. You will have overall responsibility for one area but work across other theatre departments as required.
We have a dedicated Education team in place with a comprehensive education strategy, to underpin the development of all grades of staff within theatres, facilitating career development and progression. We provide a supportive learning for staff working solo, an in-house perioperative course, support with revalidation, leadership and career development. Experienced staff are encouraged and supported to further develop using the educational and experiential learning opportunities available.
Main duties of the job
You will share clinical skills and knowledge in collaboration with educational plans, to ensure on-going clinical competency validation, alongside core skills and essential education for clinical staff. The role will focus on improving quality and efficiency in clinical care, through education, to enhance positive patient care outcomes. In addition to delivering classroom based education, there is an expectation that the successful candidate will work with clinical staff in the operating theatre department to ensure that competency assessments are carried out in a timely manner to improve patient care. A key role will be supporting and facilitating placements for a variety of healthcare students and their supervisors/assessors in co-operation with Oxford Brookes University and Bucks New University. Experience of teaching, supervising and assessing healthcare students in the practice setting and excellent communication skills are essential for this role. Willingness to pursue a Master’s level qualification in education will also be expected if the applicant is not already working towards this qualification.
Working for our organisation
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 of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will work in partnership with team leaders, link educators, practice assessors, practice supervisors and university link lecturers. This will include being responsible for proactively developing new staff, student Operating Department Practitioner and student nurses. You will be expected to lead on theatre practice development and education in the operating theatres of the OUH NHS Foundation Trust.
Person specification
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Essential criteria
- First degree (Nursing/ODP/Perioperative)
- Practice Assessor Course
- Minimum 3 to 4 years recent clinical experience in theatres
- Experience supporting students in the clinical area
- Qualification for theatre speciality
Desirable criteria
- PG Cert/Dip/Masters Education
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Valerie McAvoy
- Job title
- Lead Nurse: practice Education & Recruitment
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 231539
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