Employer: King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: King's College Hospital
Town: London
Salary: £44,806 - £53,134 Per annum including High Cost Area
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 22/11/2024 23:59
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1.7 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated Band 6 Staff Nurse/Operational Department Practitioner (OPD) to join our Day Surgery Theatres Scrub team at King's College Hospital, to provide the highest standard of intra-operative care to patients.
We are seeking an experienced scrub practitioner to join our team. Our ideal candidate will have Maxillo-Facial scrub experience but we welcome applications from anyone with a variety of extensive scrub skills across several specialities, especially Orthopaedic and Ophthalmology. We care for both adult and paediatric patients in the department.
Please note that we undertake terminations of pregnancy and that this is a job requirement within the unit. Any successful candidate will be expected to work within these lists.
Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for a clinical speciality, manage your clinical workload and resources effectively. You will maintain a high standard of clinical work and expert holistic care to both perioperative patients and their relatives within their care. This role also requires a reassuring manner and the understanding of the rights, dignity and safeguarding of all patients. You will also act as a clinical resource within the unit and across Care Group as necessary and have excellent and efficient scrub skills.
Your role will include ensuring compliance with our clinical governance framework, motivating colleagues, championing service user safety and dignity and driving continuous improvement. The candidate will take direct managerial responsibility for the clinical area in the absence of or as delegated by the Lead Nurse or Service manager.
Furthermore, you will act as a positive role model to junior staff members, will have a team of staff to manage and contribute to developing their skills and competence in theatre.
Person specification
Education and Qualification
* 1st level Registered General Nurse
* Mentorship programme or equivalent teaching qualification
* Further professional studies relevant to the clinical area
Experience and Skills
* Demonstrable clinical expertise, relevant to the area.
* Communication skills – able to relate and communicate with patients and staff at all levels and from different professions. Adapts communication style as necessary and is able to work with and through others.
* Team building and working skills – able to lead a team to achieve results
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus.
This job description is intended as a guide to the general scope of duties and is not intended to be definitive or restrictive. It is expected that some of the duties will change over time and this description will be subject to review in consultation with the post holder.
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