Site Practitioner/ Trauma Co-ordinator

Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Date: 3 days ago
City: East Grinstead, England
Contract type: Full time

An exciting opportunity to join the Site Practitioner team at the QVH in East Grinstead.

  • Management of the Trust site 24/7 ensuring Trust policy and procedures are adhered to, dealing with any incidents and issues as and when they occur, liaising with the on-call manager as necessary.
  • Receive, triage and record all trauma referral calls and actively manage the trauma theatre list.
  • Part of Outreach team and Medical Emergency Team.
  • At night lead and co-ordinate the Hospital at Night Team. Provide first line clinical input for all areas where patient issues arise, liaising with clinical staff during normal working hours or other members of the Hospital at Night team at night.
  • Take responsibility for ensuring high standards of patient care, cleanliness and hygiene.

The Role Is Comprised Of Two Parts

  • Site Practitioner - Have responsibility for the management of the Trust site 24/7 ensuring Trust policy and procedures are adhered to, dealing with any incidents and issues as and when they occur, liaising with the on-call manager as necessary.
  • Trauma Co-ordinator - Receive, triage and record all Maxillary Facial and Plastics trauma referral calls into the organisation and actively manage the trauma theatre list.

Both roles take responsibility for ensuring high standards of patient care, cleanliness and hygiene and for promoting a culture of caring, kindness and compassion, providing support to all staff members 24/7.

Rated GOOD overall with outstanding care by the CQC. A specialist NHS hospital providing life-changing reconstructive surgery, burns care and rehabilitation services across the South of England and beyond.

A centre of excellence, with an international reputation for pioneering advanced techniques and treatments. Everything we do is informed by our passion for providing the highest quality care and the best clinical outcomes.

At QVH we are proud of our achievements and our specialist services continue to record excellent clinical outcomes for patients. We regularly receive excellent results from patient satisfaction surveys and on average 98% of inpatients say they would recommend the hospital to their family or friends.

Our success is underpinned by the skills and enthusiasm of our staff and a strong culture of partnership. We are fully committed to training and development of the workforce with support for continuing education and learning.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Richard Barratt Job title: Team Lead Email address: Telephone number: 01342404000

For further information please contact Richard Barratt, Team Lead

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