Our client a leading healthcare provider is looking for the following Theatre Practitioners with to join their experienced and dynamic team:
- Scrub Theatre Practitioner
- Recovery Theatre Practitioner x 2
- Endoscopy Theatre Practitioner
Package
Salary: Up to £36,500 per annum
Full time permanent role
37.5 hrs pw
Job Purpose:
To provide exemplary planned care for patients within the perioperative and assist in the management and organisation of care provision in the operating theatre.
Accountabilities
Assess patient’s health and well-being across a complex and changing caseload.
Assist in the delivery of care to meet patient’s health and wellbeing.
Provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information.
Develop own knowledge and skills and that of others.
Promotes best practice in health and safety and security.
Assist in maintaining and developing services.
Contribute to quality improvement.
Promote people’s equality, diversity and rights
Apply technology for measurement, monitoring and treatment.
Acknowledge the risk of Healthcare Associated Infections (HCAI) and understand own responsibility as agreed with line manager in the prevention and control of HCAI.
PERSON PROFILE
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Registered Nurse/Operating Department Practitioner
Desirable
- Working towards post registration qualification in perioperative practice (nurse)
- Working towards post registration qualification in clinical specialism (ODP)
Experience
Essential
- Working in teams and with minimum supervision
- Experience in a caring role
Desirable
- Experience of applying clinical reasoning skills to a range of complex and varied patient case mixes
Knowledge and Technical Ability
Essential
- Competence across a range of skills, supported by professional and clinical knowledge acquired through state registration/practitioner qualification and additional training.
- Possess the mandatory training requirements for role including infection control and health and safety competencies.
- Demonstrate principles of accountable practice
- Possess Equipment and Medical Devices Competences
- English language to IELTS 7.0
Desirable
- Competence across a range of perioperative skills supported by professional and clinical knowledge
- Continuing professional development.
- Trained on MS Office and other relevant packages
- Root cause analysis
Skills and Behaviours
Essential
- Passion for Customers
- Planning and Organisation
- Problem Solving and Continuous Improvement
- Communication and Influencing
- Working Collaboratively
- Concern for Standards
- Business Focus
- Demonstrate your scope of practice underpins the six fundamental values of the 6 C’s (Care, Compassion, Competence, Communication, Courage and Commitment) and the care they deliver to the patient at the point of contact treats them with respect and dignity.
- Demonstrate our Values:
- Caring is our passion
- Succeeding together
- Driving excellence
- Doing the right thing
- Delivering on our promises
- Keeping it simple
- NMC or HPC registration and regulation
- Willing to participate in flexible working pattern
- Empathy for vulnerable and sick patients
- Empathy for principles and importance of EO and dignity at work
- Willingness to participate in on call duties
- Lives within 20 minutes travelling time of hospital
Duties and Responsibilities
- Assist in Consultant led surgeries that vary in complexity and specialism.
- Assess patient’s health and well-being across a complex and changing caseload, and develop care plans that are appropriate to the patient, taking into consideration the care pathway, perioperative risks and their wellbeing.
- On call commitment
