Main area theatres Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours
* Full time
* Part time
37.5 hours per week (Full time or part time) Job ref 205-7023174
Employer: University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Royal Stoke
Town: Stoke-On-Trent
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum, pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 20/03/2025 23:59
Perioperative Theatre Practitioner
Band 5
Job overview
We are the main general surgery and CEPOD Theatres for our patients from the North Midlands. Our existing services for upper GI, HPB, Bariatrics, colorectal, plastics surgery can offer a variety of specialities and fit alongside our excellent 24/7 CEPOD service. We have recently become renowned for our Colorectal Robot service which continues to develop and expand. This will ensure the successful candidates have a platform to develop skills and provide a passport to your future career development.
We are very keen to recruit Scrub & Anaesthetic Practitioners with existing skills; ODPs and Nurses are welcome to apply. Ideally, we are looking for experienced theatre team members, but we welcome applications from newly qualified staff or those new to theatres who can demonstrate a keen interest in joining our team. Any ODP or Nurse students who qualify in the next 3 to 6 months are encouraged to apply.
You will gain a wide range of experience and can expand your skills and knowledge in this challenging and rewarding environment.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for dynamic, enthusiastic candidates with the ability to work well within a challenging environment, and who can deliver high quality patient care from both an Anaesthetic and Scrub skill set. We promote a dual role workforce in our theatre department. In turn, we can offer you a structured preceptorship and induction programme for all new members of staff, plus access to ongoing continuing professional education and development, appraisal and clinical supervision.
We have vacancies for full time and part time members of staff. We have a wide range of shifts available, and we cover both elective and emergency sessions over 7 days a week / 24 hours a day (at Royal Stoke).
Working for our organisation
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.
All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.
UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return, we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by our staff, patients, and carers, that unite us as a Trust.
At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached JD & PS for further details around duties and main responsibilities or contact Sister Samantha Clewlow or Theatre Co-ordinator.
Person specification
QUALIFICATION/EDUCATION
* REGISTERED NURSE OR REGISTERED ODP
* DIPLOMA LEVEL STUDY OR ABOVE
EXPERIENCE
* THEATRE EXPERIENCE OR RETURN TO PRACTICE EXPERIENCE IN THEATRE
SKILLS/ABILITY/KNOWLEDGE
* GOOD COMMUNICATION SKILLS/EVIDENCE OF CONTINUING STUDY/KNOWLEDGE OF THEATRE PLAN, ASSESS, IMPLEMENT CARE/SUPERVISION OR LEADERSHIP SKILLS/ABILITY TO WORK WELL UNDER PRESSURE
* RESEARCH SKILLS
APTITUDES
* CODE OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT/PROFESSIONAL APTITUDES
* EVIDENCE BASED BEST PRACTICE/TEAM WORK
Important information about your application
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Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Samantha Clewlow
Job title: Theatre Sister, Theatres
Email address: samantha.clewlow@uhnm.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 01782 675603
For further details / informal visits contact:
Theatre Sister Samantha Clewlow
TEL: 01782 (6)75603
Vicky Johnson
Theatre Co-ordinator, Theatres 25-29, The Hub Theatres & ODP Professional Head
Tel: 01782 (6)75603
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