Registered Nurse, Band 5- Trauma & Orthopaedics

The post-holder supports the department sisters in ensuring robust clinical practices amongst all staff.

Support cross county service in both of the counties Orthopaedic and fracture clinics.

You proactively promote staff education and development, ensuring its relevance to the practice area and individual needs

Actively promote robust infection control practices. Assist the department sisters to maintain high standards of cleanliness in the clinical area and for a well-maintained clinical environment.

You will act as a role model, demonstrating high levels of clinical expertise, managing and delivering individual patient care and co-ordinating clinic allocations.

Communication and interpersonal skills

Good communications are essential working with a multi-disciplinary team and our patients and their families.

Communication skills e.g., negotiation & influencing skills, in order to manage challenging situations and people.

Ability to facilitate and support learning in practice.

Excellent IT skills and the ability to use appropriate Trust IT systems (Trak, Health Roster etc.)

Sensitive, empathetic and compassionate

Leadership, management and team working

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust operates hospitals on our two main sites in Cheltenham and Gloucester, and we're one of the largest NHS trusts in the country.

Our workforce of almost 8,000 staff provides high quality emergency, elective and specialist care across a range of clinical areas, It is expected that all employees uphold the values of the organisation as our values underpin everything we do and describe the way we expect our staff to behave towards our patients, families and carers and between each other. We have the following three values