Job Overview
We're currently looking to welcome a Band 2 Theatre Healthcare Assistant to our Frimley Health family in Main Theatres for the Surgical and Emergency Team.
The team offers a variety of surgical specialties including Obstetrics and Gynaecology, General Surgery, Emergencies, Robotics and Vascular.
We welcome applications from enthusiastic applicants who are committed to providing excellent patient care.
Frimley Health NHS Trust is committed to the ongoing training and development of Healthcare Assistants with exciting opportunities to participate in further development. Options to study to become Theatre Practitioner, Registered Nurse, and Operating Department Practitioner after a qualifying period.
This vacancy is linked to a Level 2 Apprenticeship. This will support you to gain relevant knowledge, skills and experience that will help you achieve your potential in this role. This is a great opportunity to gain a national recognised qualification while you are working and earning, which will support you in both this role and in your future career at Frimley Health.
You will not be required to undertake an apprenticeship if you have previously completed a relevant apprenticeship, NVQ or similar qualification.
Theatre operates 24 hours, 7 days a week with our shift patterns varying from a Long Day (07.30-19.30) or Night (19.00-07.30) including weekends and bank holidays.
Main duties of the job
A Healthcare Assistant (HCA) in operating theatres works as part of the multidisciplinary team. The HCA assists the Theatre Practitioners and Surgical team during surgical procedures with equipment, instruments and patient care.
1. To support the Theatre in establishing a good working atmosphere and participate in effective/efficient use of staff, supplies and services.
2. To provide support to the perioperative team in the delivery of quality patient care, within the theatre area.
3. To provide physical and psychological support to the patient ensuring their privacy and dignity.
4. To assist in effective communication channels between team members, medical staff, wards, and departments.
5. To accurately document intraoperative patient information on the trust's Electronic Medical Record system adhering to policies regarding confidentiality.
6. To prepare theatres by maintaining proper stock levels of consumables and checking that all equipment and instruments are in good, working order.
7. To ensure all equipment is regularly checked and maintained in a safe manner.
8. To participate in achieving the stated Clinical Governance, Quality Assurance and Risk Management objectives set by the organisation.
9. To support staff deployment to other areas of the Trust or to one of our sister hospitals when situations arise.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
The role of the Healthcare Assistant in the operating theatres is vital and full training will be given.
Good communication skills and the ability to work within a multidisciplinary team are essential. The ability to work in a fast paced busy environment is a requirement. Experience within an Operating Theatre or hospital environment is desirable but not essential.
Your Role Will Include
1. Preparation of operating theatres for surgery. Setting up equipment, instruments, inputting data onto computers.
2. Cleaning and maintaining the theatres and store areas.
3. Assisting the Theatre Practitioners during theatre lists.
4. Assisting in the anaesthetic room prior to surgery.
For a full list of responsibilities, please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Educated to GCSE level.
Desirable criteria
1. Completion of a care award NVQ.
Experience
Essential criteria
1. Experience of working in a team, undertaking duties as requested.
Desirable criteria
1. Experience in a healthcare setting.
2. Experience of working in theatres.
Skills
Essential criteria
1. Good communication skills, both written and verbal.
2. Physical ability to carry out activities required e.g. manual handling loads, transferring patients and pushing beds.
3. Good interpersonal and teamworking skills under sometimes difficult conditions.
4. Manual dexterity to assist within the theatre environment e.g. opening sterile supplies.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other: Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
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