Employer: Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: North Tyneside General Hospital
Town: North Shields
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 26/11/2024 23:59
Theatre Nurse/Operating Department Practitioner
Band 5
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients. You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep.
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
* Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
* Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
* A range of flexible working opportunities
* Generous annual leave and pension scheme
* Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
* Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
* On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
* Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England.
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a Registered Nurse or Operating Department Practitioners to work as part of our highly motivated and dynamic General Surgery Team. The vacancy will be within the General surgery scrub team at North Tyneside General Hospital.
You can build your career further when you join our team. Part of our Northumbria Way is a commitment to supporting you to develop your clinical skills, as well as any career or leadership aspirations you may have. To enhance and broaden your career, we offer several schemes and training opportunities to maximise your personal development.
Main duties of the job
We are looking to hire keen and enthusiastic practitioners skilled and experienced in General Surgery scrub to join our high performing teams delivering safe, high-quality patient care. The successful post holder must be able to role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the Trust.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care under the direction of the senior nurse/SODP.
To assist in the provision of nursing care and maintain high clinical standards.
To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
Develop over time and contribute to the management of a clinical area and take charge in the absence of Senior Nurse/ODP.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered Mentor. Mentorship Qualification or relevant equivalent qualification (essential requirement for post)
* Evidence of ongoing practice development
* Recognised teaching qualification
* Diploma/degree in nursing/or health related topic
* Recognised post graduate theatre/anaesthetic qualification
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware.
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post.
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