Emergency Medicine Lecturer Practitioner

Job overview

This a month fixed term contract to cover maternity leave. 

We are looking for a high calibre and driven individual to join our senior nurse team in the Emergency Departments at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as a Lecturer Practitioner.

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated professional who has a passion for both education and clinical practice. You will be seconded to Oxford Brookes University to work within the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences. Working across three sites, the John Radcliffe Hospital, the Horton General Hospital and Oxford Brookes University, you will deliver an ambitious education strategy, ensuring all members of the team are accessing the appropriate education and supervision and fulfilling their potential. Proven clinical credibility is essential.

The Trust and Oxford Brookes are considered innovative with a reputation for high standards and high performance. The Trust is committed to personal and professional development and to developing new methods of learning and development which are flexible and accessible; this is also a corner stone of the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences.

Within the Emergency Department the successful candidate will be expected to function as an autonomous practitioner and be adept to work in all of the clinical areas. Alongside this clinical practice, will provide practice education, support, guidance and advice to other members of the team. The successful post holder will also have senior nurse responsibilities relating to the business of the Emergency Departments and the maintenance of standards and quality.

The post holder will be responsible for delivery of teaching within the Advanced and Specialist Practice cluster, including delivery of Advanced Clinical Practice Postgraduate modules and support of students and practice supervisors within clinical practice.

The Faculty has a vibrant CPD unit within health care and has a developing nursing research culture. The post holder will be supported to undertake the programme, that provides knowledge and skill development to support HE teaching practice, teaching scholarship, leadership and research, knowledge exchange and innovation.

The role of the Lecturer Practitioner is fundamental in the delivery of postgraduate provision and the alignment of clinical practice and education delivery between the two organisations.

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. Find out more here

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 .