Job overview

The Discharge Lounge is a fast paced and dynamic department at the John Radcliffe Hospital, caring for patients from a wide variety of wards, continuing the patient pathway between inpatient area and discharge destination.  

Nursing and Midwifery at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has a rich tradition of developing nursing and midwifery practice and of delivering excellence in patient care. Whilst proud of our heritage, our focus is the future and central to our vision is providing evidence-based individualised care to the people we support.
Nursing and Midwifery at Oxford is an exciting and dynamic place to be a clinician, researcher,  educator and leader but is only as innovative as the people in our amazing teams. Whilst providing evidence-based individualised care is core to everything we do, we are also deeply committed to caring for and developing each through staff being encouraged to undertake further study within their speciality area.
Our aim is to be the best at what we do through our research and innovation initiatives and partnerships; rather than just say we're the best, be able to prove it! The Trust is a founding member of The Oxford Institute for Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Research (OxINMAHR)

Main duties of the job

To undertake routine care for patients of all genders and to assist them with their personal care needs. (This may involve maintaining hygiene needs for individuals such as helping patients to wash and dress themselves and assisting with toileting needs, maintaining privacy and dignity at all times).
 To assess and monitor the patients skin integrity and to report and document immediately any changes or concerns in their condition.
 To perform (following appropriate assessment of competence) accurately recording using agreed electronic National Early Warning Signals such as SEND and report and escalate any concerns appropriately by reporting to the registered nurse immediately.
 To assist patients to meet their food and fluid intake giving attention to special diets, supplements and cultural requirements.  To contribute to the patient’s malnutrition universal screening tool (MUST) risk assessment.
 To actively encourage all patients to share the responsibility for the maintenance of their health and to promote healthy living.
 Assist the ward team to serve meals and drinks to patients as required.
 Assist patients to mobilise safely, using equipment and techniques as prescribed and recorded in plan of care.
 To participate in handover process to ensure continuity of care and to accurately feedback to a registered practitioner, the care given to patients during the shift and of any changes in the patient’s condition.

Working for our organisation

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is 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. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please view OUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu

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 this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and 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 the OUH YouTube channel.