Job Title: Theatre Scrub Practitioner - Nights
Hours per week: 37.5 hours per week (Unsocial hrs over 7 days working), part-time hours would be considered
Perm/Fixed Term: Permanent
Closing Date: 4th November 2024
Interview Date: TBC
This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly.
All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.
A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.
Main duties of the job
* An opportunity has arisen to join our team and work permanent nights covering our ncepod theatres. As per HCPC / NMC guidelines the successful applicant must work 2 weeks of day shifts per year.
* Responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care to patients in the perioperative environment.
* Takes charge of theatre as delegated by the Senior Team Leader for a specified period of time.
* Acts as leader, delegating tasks and supervising the standard of care delivered by more junior qualified theatre staff, support theatre staff and students within the perioperative teams.
* Assists the Senior Team Leader and Professional Development Team (theatre) in the management of preceptorship of newly qualified staff, return to practice staff and the mentorship of nursing /ODP students and health care support workers.
About us
Here at George Eliot our vision to 'excel at patient care' takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:
Effective Open Communication
Xcellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, extensive in-house course learning directory, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Job responsibilities
Deliver a high standard of perioperative care without direct supervision, based upon a sound evidence base.
To provide skilled clinical assistance to the surgical, anaesthetic and recovery teams.
Undertakes and documents a comprehensive, systematic and accurate perioperative care assessment of the physical social and spiritual needs of the patient where appropriate.
Creates and utilizes opportunities to promote health and wellbeing of patients in their care.
Leads a perioperative team to manage a group of patients throughout a shift.
Applicants are expected to have a wealth of experience covering the emergency footprint.
Person Specification
Experience and Knowledge
* Minimum of 12 months post registration within the Perioperative environment.
* Scrub Experience within emergency specialty, including general, gynae, urology and trauma.
* Recovery experience.
Qualification and Professional Training
* Registered General Nurse and/or Registered Operating Department Practitioner.
* Evidence of CPD.
Skills and Abilities
* Ability to have positive working relationships.
* Ability to work under pressure to meet demand.
* Experience of using evidence based practice.
* Able to demonstrate clinical knowledge, skills and expertise.
* Provide and receive complex and sensitive information, understanding the barriers to effective communication.
Personal Qualities
* Positive working relationships.
* Ability to motivate others.
* Good organizational skills.
Other
* A commitment to equal opportunities.
Trust Values
* Effective Open Communication.
* Excellence and safety in all that we do.
* Challenge but support.
* Expect respect and dignity.
* Local healthcare that inspires confidence.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£28,407 to £34,581 a year per annum pro rata
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