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We are a friendly, supportive team, dedicated to delivering outstanding patient-centred care within our 22 bedded unit based at the John Radcliffe Hospital. We are a nationally renowned centre for specialities in Trauma; Vascular; Spinal; Orthopaedics, Specialist Surgery, emergency acute surgery, medicine.

With the combination of a fantastic team and working environment, it is a wonderful place to develop, grow and contribute to delivering the best patient care.

We are now looking for two exceptional Band 7s to join our leadership team for an 18-month secondment, to cover secondment and maternity leave. You will be experienced critical care nurses with experience of operational management/bed management and be able to make decisions and navigate problems when they arise. You will work clinically, maintaining excellent standards of patient care. You will have strong interpersonal skills and be able to develop sound professional relationships across the whole MDT. You will have a passion to drive change and confident in leading new quality improvement initiatives across the unit - one post has a Renal Lead focus, the second post has a HCID and Major Incident Lead focus.

As a Band 7 you will effectively manage and lead a team, ensuring they are supported, developed and nurtured allowing the unit to 'grow its own'., The successful applicants will work as clinical band 7s on OCC, providing high standards of care to the critically ill patients of Oxfordshire, and daily operational management of the service, along with the Churchill ICU. The non-clinical work associated with the first post will involve quality improvement projects for Renal, and for the second post, for HCID/Major Incident and Business Continuity planning. There will be teams of bands 2-6 to line manage, develop and support. Close collaboration with the rest of the senior nurse team will be required, to ensure best practice and care standards are met.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trustis 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 herewww.ouh.nhs.uk

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 thisDelivering Compassionate Excellenceand 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 theOUH YouTube channel.