Registered Nurse Headington

Closing date: 17 August 2026

Are you ready for a new opportunity?

Do you have an interest or experience in Plastic Surgery or Minor Operations procedures?

Would you like to work in an Outpatient setting?

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our nursing team, within the Specialist Surgery Outpatient Nursing team working in the Plastic Surgery Minor Operations Service based at the NOC.

We are looking for a Band 5 Registered Nurse, who has an interest in Outpatient / Theatre Nursing to join our team!

If you have a passion for delivering high quality, compassionate care and working closely within a dynamic team this is the perfect role for you.

We are a friendly patient centred department delivering high quality compassionate care with integrity and respect within our variety of elective & Plastic surgery trauma Minor Ops service, working alongside consultants and the wider MDT.

This post will focused and support the work within our Plastic surgery minor ops service, but will involve work in some of our other clinics too. We hold outpatient clinics for a wide variety of specialties, and no two days are the same.

The Outpatient's Department is open 5 days a week, excluding bank holidays, opening hours from 7.30am until 6pm on weekdays.

Informal visits are highly recommended and encouraged.

To ensure excellent patient care by planning and implementing the relevant procedures to meet the individual needs of the patients attending the NOC MOPs service maintaining patient records accordingly.

Be responsible for the assessment of care needs for the patients attending the Outpatients department, including the development, implementation and evaluation of care.

To contribute to the effective running of our minor operations service, liaising with multidisciplinary teams to ensure continuity of patient care.

Actively contribute to the continuing development of nursing practice and to act as a mentor for pre and post registration students.

The post holder must be aware of the individuals responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work Act and identify and report, as necessary any untoward incident or accident or potentially hazardous environment.

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 You Tube channel.

In 2023

NHS England launched its first sexual safety charter, and our Trust proudly signed it. We pledge zero tolerance for inappropriate sexual behaviour and commit to the ten core principles

Oxford University Hospitals promotes a safe, respectful hiring environment.

If you want to make a difference with us, come and join our team. Together, we will uphold the highest standards of care and professionalism.

Date posted: 03 August 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 5

Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year Pro-rata

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Part-time

Reference number: 321-NOTSS-7802230-B5

Job locations: NOC, Windmill Road, Headington, OX3 7LD
, United Kingdom

The key activities/roles for this post in relation to the Minor operation service include, but are not limited to, supporting the effective running of the theatre lists both from the pre operative room and/or the clinic base. In terms of minor operations theatre room activity, the postholder will be expected to undertake and assist in the scrubbing and circulating , offer advice to colleagues (registered & non-registered) and patients regarding post operative instructions and advice,provide information surrounding the care of wounds, administer medications as necessary, give medication advice), be involved in the ordering of necessary consumables used in the service.

Role activities in relation to other clinics include, but again are not limited to, chaperoning in clinic, undertaking and documenting physiological observations to aid the Doctors in the direct care of patients (such as height, weight, blood pressure), being actively involved in the care of unwell patients when necessary and supporting their colleagues in these events, carrying out investigations within the department such as phlebotomy or…