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Job overview

Do you have a keen interest in Critical Care Research? In Oxford Critical Care we have a unique opportunity for an enthusiastic staff nurse!

Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) is a world-renowned centre of clinical excellence and one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the UK. Providing the highest quality of healthcare, we employ up to12,500 staff, including over 4,000 nurses and 2,000 doctors. The Trust is made up of four hospitals – the John Radcliffe Hospital (which includes the Children's Hospital, West Wing, Eye Hospital, Heart Centre, and Women's Centre), the Churchill Hospital and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, all located in Oxford, and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury, North Oxfordshire.

We are proud to have an extensive range of collaborations which underpin the quality of care we provide to our patients – with partners including the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University.

At OUH we offer

•    an exceptional opportunity to work in a nationally renowned centre for specialties such as Trauma, Vascular surgery; Cancer & Haematology; Maxillofacial surgery and one of the largest transplant centres in Europe

•    A newly built, state of the art critical care building featuring 48 Level 3 beds across three floors providing a patient-centred holistic model of care and a truly outstanding environment to work in.  The clinical areas are bright, airy, and modern.

Main duties of the job

• Maintain clinical expertise in Oxford Critical Care and further develop new skills relating to research. Would require 50% researcher and 50% clinical shifts.
• To facilitate research projects and to work collaboratively with research colleagues within the service, Trust, University, regionally, nationally, and internationally to help develop a high-quality research portfolio.
• To contribute to quality improvement, audit and service evaluation within clinical practice and evidence base of service and trust.
• Collaborating closely with Jody Ede, clinical academic nurse researcher.
• Link in with the Clinical Research Network (CRN) team to become familiar with processes surrounding large study trials such as consenting and randomisation.
• To collaborate closely with the MDT, Clinical Governance team, CRN, Divisional Research Leads and Education Team in identifying research opportunities within OCC
• To become familiar with foundational skills required to undertake research such as data collection, case report form designs, study protocol development, data management, data analysis (Quant and Qual), manuscript writing and development and presentations.
• To understand how research works in OUH and what infrastructure there is to support this.

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.

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.