Band 6 Senior Nurse (COPE - Community Orthopaedic Team)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, experienced orthopaedic nurse to join our specialist multidisciplinary COPE Team. As part of the Trauma and Orthopaedic Unit this hospital-based community team supports early and same day discharge of patients from hospital, providing a continuation of hospital-based care and rehabilitation in their home environment.

The post also involves post-operative 6-week assessments of primary hip and knee replacement patients in their homes reducing the need for hospital visits. The team is both interdisciplinary as well as multidisciplinary and as such you will have the opportunity to extend your scope of practice following training and competencies.

The Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospital Trust is one of the busiest acute trusts in London and continually innovating to reduce the backlog of orthopaedic surgeries. The team is rising to meet the challenge of providing high quality modern services in line with our culture of continuous improvement and providing a seamless service from hospital to specialist community care., To provide specialist assessment, treatment and advice to patients within the community setting, facilitating and maximising patient potential following orthopaedic surgery.

Ensuring all care is provided in accordance with BHR trust policies and procedures whilst aiming to achieve high level care set by national and departmental guidelines.

To give specialised guidance to other members of the MDT and GPs to provide a seamless approach to patient care, aiming to support discharge from hospital and prevent re-admission.

Provide support for the rehabilitation team, in conjunction with the COPE Team Lead, in planning, coordinating, delivering, and evaluating the care provided to patients within your specialist area on a day-to-day basis.

We are looking for an innovative individual who has excellent communication, team working and clinical skills. Successful candidates must have relevant clinical background and ability to integrate well into a multidisciplinary team environment.

We're an organisation that is getting better and better. We were the most improved Trust in England for A&E performance in 2023/24; we're no longer in special measures; and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal. Our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and that our patients are happy with.

Many of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. More than 400 of them are on apprenticeship programmes and we're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We operate from two main sites - King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London - more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023.

Patients across north east London are benefitting from two new state of the art theatres at KGH and our Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub will significantly increase the number of scans that can be carried out.

We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record next year. This will mean the records of any patient visiting one of the seven hospitals run by BHRUT and Barts Health will be accessible to the clinical teams. It'll make things easier for staff and will be better for patients.