Trauma Co-ordinator

Wwl; Wigan; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the trauma team at a leading NHS Foundation Trust as a Band 6 Nurse. You'll work closely with multidisciplinary teams to ensure trauma patients receive timely and appropriate care. Ideal candidates will have trauma nursing experience, but training is available. This role offers flexibility and the potential for permanent placement.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with evidence of continuing professional development.
• Experience in Trauma and patient flow.
• Flexible and positive approach to work.

Responsibilities

• Act as a role model and mentor to staff.
• Provide support within the Trauma Service.
• Attend daily trauma meetings and communicate effectively with the medical teams.

Skills

Verbal communication skills

Written communication skills

Interpersonal communication skills

Ability to maintain and improve standards of care

Computer skills

Education

1st Level Registered Nurse (relevant branch)

Degree / Diploma Studies

Teaching and Assessing Course

Job description

This post is only open to internal applicants.

NHS AfC: Band 6

Main area Specialist Services - Trauma Team Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Secondment: 12 months (maternity leave cover) Hours

• Full time
• Part time
• Job share
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week Job ref 302-25-7241725SS

Site RAEI Town Wigan Salary £37,338 - £44,962 per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 25/06/2025 23:59

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Job overview

We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Band 6 who would like to join the trauma team at the Royal Albert Edward Infirmary.

The role involves working close with the MDT to ensure trauma patients receive appropriate care and timely interventions in accordance with appropriate pathways.

The successful candidate would ideally have experience in nursing trauma patients and have an understanding of emergency care pathways and patient flow on the acute site. However, training will be given if needed

Please note this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of suitable applications are received.

Please note that although this post is advertised as maternity leave cover, there is a chance it may become permanent in the future.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide support and leadership within the Trauma Service contributing to service development and redesign to improve the patient’s pathway and experience.

Working for our organisation

Working for your organisation

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that ‘happy staff, makes for happy patients’. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement, and living our values ‘the WWL Way’.

WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The successful post holder will-

• Act as a role model and mentor to staff, supporting the ward and OPD managers, with the clinical governance
• Attend the daily trauma meeting to discuss with the Orthopaedic consultant and medical teams the admissions from the previous day/night.
• Effectively communicate with the Orthopaedic consultant and all staff present at the meeting, the number of cases that are waiting for surgery, their treatment plans and current health status (eg. fit/unfit).
• Attend the daily post on-call consultant ward round in order to enable formal assessment of the recent trauma
• Regularly communicate with the trauma theatre personnel in order to maintain effective communication
• Trauma/Orthopaedic outliers
• Create adequate communication links with the staff from other surgical/medical specialties when trauma patients are on out-lying wards in order to provide advice and training on Orthopaedic/trauma nursing issues and to disseminate information from the Orthopaedic consultant and their
• Maintain effective communication with the duty bed manager in order to identify and prioritise those patients who need to be admitted or repatriated to the trauma ward.

Person specification

Qualifications

• 1st Level Registered Nurse (relevant branch)
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Teaching and Assessing Course
• Degree /Diploma Studies Specialists Skills Course

Experience

• Experience of working on own and as a member of a team
• Experience in Trauma and patient flow

Skills

• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
• Ability to maintain and improve standards of care
• Computer skills and database management

Knowledge

• Up to date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues
• Knowledge of evidence based practice.
• Understanding of research/audit
• Experience of audit
• Understanding of NOF pathway
• Research
• Understanding of resource management
• Understanding of education/student Requirements

Additional

• Able to work day/evening/night duty over a 7 day week
• Flexible and positive approach to work
• • Speak English to an appropriate standard relevant to their role, i.e. with confidence and accuracy, using correct sentence

Our Trust prefers candidates to submit applications online. Please contact the Recruitment Team on 01942 244000 if you have difficulty applying online.

The Trust reserves the right to close adverts earlier than the stated closing date if there is a high volume of applications.

We endeavour to inform all applicants of the outcome of their application by email or SMS text message.

Guidance on Completing Your Application

Applications are scored against the person specification, therefore we recommend that you use the supporting information section of your application form to demonstrate how you meet the essential and desirable criteria for the role, providing illustrative examples where possible.

On-Call

Please note that some roles may require you to participate in an on-call rota, if the role is predominantly operational.

WWL has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. and will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester Local Authority or NHS organisation, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority; giving you access to our service-related benefits.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Name David Patterson Job title Therapy Lead for Trauma and Ortho Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 01257 256534

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