Specialist Nurse

Oxford University Hospitals; Town of Oxford; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Part time

Job summary

A prominent NHS teaching trust is seeking a flexible and motivated part-time nurse to join their Haemoglobinopathy team in Oxford. This role involves providing support, education, and information to patients and families across both adult and pediatric services. Key responsibilities include acting as the named nurse for a cohort of patients, facilitating their care and ensuring they receive the necessary education and support. The position offers a dynamic work environment with flexible hours catered to both service needs and personal preferences.

Qualifications

• Experience in a dynamic healthcare environment.
• Superb interpersonal skills for patient interaction.
• Ability to work across both adult and pediatric services.

Responsibilities

• Support, educate and provide information to patients and families.
• Work collaboratively with healthcare staff in various settings.
• Act as the named nurse for a cohort of patients.

Skills

Caring and compassionate nature

Excellent communication skills

Flexibility

Motivated approach

Job description

Overview

We are looking for a flexible, motivated, and dynamic nurse to join our small, friendly, creative and forward thinking Haemoglobinopathy team in a part time role. Our well established Thames Valley Specialist Haemoglobinopathy Network cares for adults and children with rare inherited anaemias such as sickle cell disease, thalassaemia, and diamond blackfan. The network covers Oxford, Milton Keynes, Swindon, Wexham Park, Reading, Stoke Mandeville and High Wycombe.

The care of this group of patients and families is determined by national Haemoglobinopathy care standards (adult and paediatric guidelines) and our specialist network is peer reviewed to the Quality review service standards. Our network works to a ‘whole of life’ approach to care, so our paediatric and adult teams are closely linked with joint quality meetings. The specialist nurses have joint projects, such as transition and provide cross cover. We work closely with our adult and paediatric specialist nurses in Milton Keynes, as well as community services across the region. The teams have monthly MDTs, local and outreach clinics to the network hospitals.

Main duties of the job

This is a fantastic opportunity for a dynamic, motivated nurse, to work across both adult and paediatric services across the network. You will be part of our whole life service and will be an integral team member. The role is about providing support, education and information to patients, families and healthcare staff and can be as diverse as helping with social services applications to sexual health discussions, supporting transition or teaching nursing staff.

We will ensure you have the orientation and training required so that you can support our patients and their families. Ultimately, you will be the named nurse for a cohort of patients in one part of the network and support the local hospitals in the non-acute care of these patients. The contracted hours can be worked flexibly to meet both the needs of the service and yourself. Whilst the role is Oxford based, depending on where you live, we may be able to allocate local hospitals close to your home.

Requirements / Qualifications

• Caring and compassionate nature with superb interpersonal skills and resilience to work in a developing environment.
• Excellent communication skills to engage patients and their families in decision making and self-care and to support them in managing their health care needs.
• Flexible, motivated approach and ability to work across adult and paediatric services.
• Ability to provide support, education and information to patients, families and healthcare staff.

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. 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, focusing on the 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.

If you want to make a difference with us, come and join our team. Together, we will uphold the highest standards of care and professionalism.