Main area: Theatre Scrub Nurse/Operating Department Practitioner Band 5
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours:
* Full time
* Part time
37.5 hours per week (On Call Rota commitment required)
Job ref: 224-PA20240901993
Employer: The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital
Town: Oswestry
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 pa
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 09/10/2024 23:59
NHS AfC: Band 5
Here at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Trust, we are very proud of our reputation for providing outstanding care to our patients. Our continued success is accomplished through the skills and expertise of our staff, which is underpinned by our values: Friendly, Caring, Excellence, Professional and Respect. If your values align to ours, and you would like to join us in aspiring to deliver world class patient care, we would love to hear from you.
Job overview
Do you want to work for a Trust that is rated outstanding for its care and delivers the best patient experience in the NHS (according to the Adult Inpatient Survey)? Now is your chance, as we are recruiting for a range of exciting clinical roles. We would like to invite experienced theatre nurses and ODPs, newly-qualified nurses and ODP (who will be joining their professional register within the next 12 months) and experienced nurses wishing to pursue a career within the peri-operative environment, to come and join us at this exciting time at RJAH Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
We have vacancies available right now at our world leading specialist hospital, with rotational opportunities across anaesthetics, scrub and recovery. Our theatre practitioners provide high quality care within a friendly and supportive multi-disciplinary environment.
Main duties of the job
The Theatre Unit at RJAH comprises of 12 Theatres alongside a Recovery unit, a HDU and an on-site TSSU. We cover a wide spectrum of primarily elective Orthopaedic surgery including, but not exclusively, Revision & Primary Arthroplasty, Upper limb, Lower Limb, Sports Injuries, Spines, Tumour and Paediatrics.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To ensure safe quality care is provided for patients within the Unit as Trust and Unit policy.
Manage the team as a team leader, participating as an active member of the scrub and circulating team in a designated highly specialist area without supervision as appropriate using all forms of knowledge, skills and experience required in order to be able to undertake the duties competently such as check the instruments and implants for the list and any other equipment that is necessary.
To demonstrate a high level of communication and relationship skills promoting and maintaining effective liaison throughout the Unit team and with the wider multidisciplinary team.
Support the Co-ordinator in the effective and efficient management of the unit to include liaising with Recovery about amendments or changes to list (this will affect availability of instruments), informing all relevant members of the team and the Co-ordinator of the above.
To organise the multidisciplinary staff allocated to your control on a daily basis.
Be responsible for ensuring own Theatre list runs smoothly and safely; this involves extensive co-operation and communication with the whole multidisciplinary team.
Ensure the Health and Safety of all staff, patients and visitors, reporting all incidents/accidents/near misses to the Co-ordinator as a Team Leader. You will also be responsible for documenting and monitoring the safe use of all equipment (some of which is expensive and requires skill/training to use), and economic use of supplies.
To maintain an understanding of and adhere to all Trust and Unit policies and procedures and ensure attendance of mandatory annual training e.g. Fire, Manual Handling, CPR etc.
To have an understanding of Risk Management.
To enhance patient care by ensuring effective assessment of patients’ needs, this includes making complex decisions on issues surrounding surgical emergencies/problems requiring immediate action and co-ordinating the requirements of specialist surgery out of hours, using and developing extensive knowledge and skills underpinned by theoretical knowledge or relevant practical experience across all sub-specialisations of orthopaedic surgery, carried out within the Trust.
Be responsible for delivering personal patient programmes of care and for continual assessment, evaluation and updating of same.
To have communication and relationship skills to sensitively deal with patients and relatives who may be distressed, disorientated or anxious such as dignity of the unconscious patient, correct positioning of the patient and protection of pressure areas. Supporting and reassuring patients undergoing surgery with local and spinal anaesthesia and to be able to deliver highly sensitive or unwelcome information in an appropriate and empathetic manner; this may be required daily.
Be responsible for repair, maintenance and safe use of equipment ensuring competent knowledge and fault-finding skills. Responsible for ensuring correct provision of all cumulative parts of prosthesis implantation, pre-operatively, peri-operatively and post-operatively, involving auditing and adherence to protocol.
Daily liaise with and assist the appropriate clinical specialists in relation to individual patient care and evaluate the requirements for surgery to include both intrinsic and extrinsic requirements i.e. environment, lighting and peripheral requirements.
Ensure personally that all Nursing & Midwifery Council, Healthcare Professions Council and Continuing Professional Development requirements are met.
Take responsibility for developing the clinical skills of new and newly qualified staff within your area, acting as their mentor/preceptor and are trained to a competent level under appropriate supervision.
Ensure Trust policies and procedures are met in relation to personal professional responsibilities.
Ensure Unit policies and procedures are proposed and developed, documented and adhered to.
Ensure own mandatory training is completed annually as required.
Constantly act as a role model and resource for junior members of staff.
Be responsible for ordering, storing, dispensing and recording of drugs in accordance with Trust policy. Order by verbal, written and electronic means, record electronically or written as appropriate.
Daily input and retrieve patient information appropriate to the Unit from the Trust information technology systems including EPR, PAS Theatre Management System, TIMS, TIS and Fingerprint.
To participate in auditing, supporting and implementing necessary changes and service improvements in the Unit. Audits are carried out daily, weekly and monthly. Undertaking clinical trials on a regular basis i.e. new equipment/surgical procedures.
At all times to be responsible for appropriate control and management of resources.
Act as a link nurse, maintaining a learning environment for colleagues.
To communicate efficiently and effectively with the multidisciplinary team, other departments within the Trust.
Keep your Line Manager informed of changes in circumstances that may affect the delivery of safe high quality patient care. Responsible for the Department in the absence of your line manager. This may involve emergency work out of hours whatever the emergency may be.
Keep abreast of current and future nursing and peri-operative trends. Working within a highly specialised area, regularly exposed to new and unfamiliar surgical techniques and equipment, encompassing all knowledge, experience and skills.
Promote an environment of openness and support for all staff, patients and visitors.
Perform any job related duties not specifically enumerated in this job description which may be assigned by your Line Manager, but within accepted levels of accountability.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
* Registered Nurse with active NMC registration or ODP with HCPC
* Nursing Degree/Diploma or ODP qualification
* Mentorship or equivalent level of specialist skill
Experience
* Registered Nurse or ODP
* Experience in the theatre environment
* Specialist orthopaedics
Knowledge
* Prepared to update orthopaedic knowledge and undertake further professional education
Personal Qualities
* Works well under pressure
* Motivated, flexible
* Good team player
* Able to commit to the on call rota
* Good interpersonal and communication skills
* To exemplify the Trust Values: Friendly – patients, colleagues, public are always put at ease and made welcome; Excellence – ensure the care we deliver has great outcomes for patients; Caring - put the patient first and be considerate of their needs; Professional - apply high professional standards to your role; Respect - for patients and each other
Important
Your application form must include a complete record of your employment history. Please explain any gaps in your employment/education history and reasons for these gaps. The Trust maintains the right to withdraw an employment offer or terminate employment if it is later found that an application for employment contained false, misleading or inaccurate information. For the avoidance of doubt this would include omissions of previous periods of employment or reasons given for gaps in employment.
Please be aware that we reserve the right to close this job advert early where sufficient applications have been received.
For Information
The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHSFT embraces diversity, equality and inclusion and our aim is to be diverse in age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability and ethnicity.
We are committed to ensuring disabled workers aren’t disadvantaged when applying for and doing their jobs and offer an interview to all applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the advertised post. Reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010 will be considered upon request.
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