Main area Nursing Assistant Grade Band 2/3
Contract Permanent
Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Days, nights, weekends)
Job ref 349-MRI-6977254*
Employer Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Manchester Royal Infirmary
Town Manchester
Salary £24,169 - £25,674 Per annum (pro rata)
Salary period Yearly
Closing 15/04/2025 23:59
Nursing Assistant - Theatres
Band 2/3
Job overview
We’re looking for compassionate and caring Theatre Support Workers with a passion to be a key part of the patient care journey here at Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MFT). Our Nursing Assistants take great pride in the essential work we do in the Adult Theatres. That’s because we’re not just helping patients, we’re going the extra mile for them – day in, day out.
You’ll communicate in a sensitive and compassionate manner with patients and other members of the multi-disciplinary team, working flexibly across a range of day and night shifts over 7 days a week.
Previous Theatre experience is desirable but not essential. The advert may close early if there is high demand.
Main duties of the job
Theatres and Elective In Reach (TIER) is looking for Theatre Support Workers to work within our 18 theatre department, that covers a range of specialties such as Emergency, Trauma, vascular, renal, urology, head and neck and general surgery.
Your role will be that of a Nursing Assistant to support the qualified theatre practitioners. Your main responsibility will be inside Theatres supporting qualified practitioners to prepare the theatre and sterile equipment for surgery. This will include manual handling of surgical equipment and instruments, and assisting patient positioning. You will support the Scrub Practitioner and Surgical Team throughout the case, including setting up laparoscopic equipment, handling implants, and completing associated digital documentation.
Additional duties include collecting, escorting and reassuring patients to and from ward areas into the anaesthetic room and forward wait area where patients wait for their operative procedure.
The role also includes other duties such as waste management, stock rotation, cleaning and use of medical devices. You would also cover other roles such as housekeeping and theatre sterile services if required.
If you are new to working in healthcare, you’ll be supported to develop your knowledge and skills through our Support Worker Development Programme for Nursing Assistants. Upon completion of the Programme, it will give you the opportunity to progress to a Band 3 Nursing Assistant.
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn and is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health and social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals and community services from across Manchester, Trafford and beyond, we champion collaborative working and transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient and staff experience, operational effectiveness and driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre and Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
At Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MFT), our Nursing Assistants take great pride in the essential work we do. That’s because we’re not just helping patients, we’re going the extra mile for them – day in, day out. But more than that, our team’s commitment to work with empathy, consideration and dignity means that we’re among the best – and most compassionate – in our field.
On joining MFT, you’ll be supported to develop your knowledge and skills through our Support Worker Development Programme for Nursing Assistants that includes completion of the Care Certificate for candidates who have not completed this previously. The completion of the Support Worker Development Programme will give you the opportunity to progress into a Band 3 Nursing Assistant role.
If you’re a more experienced Nursing Assistant seeking a new opportunity in a Band 3 role, you’ll undertake a skills analysis when you start to identify any gaps in your clinical skills knowledge needed for your role. You’ll then be supported to access relevant modules from the clinical skills programme to support your progression to a Band 3 post on completion.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description and Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Person specification
Qualifications
* Holds National Care Certificate or be willing to undertake and complete within 12 weeks of starting.
* Will be required to undertake the Trust CSW Development programme and theatre competency-based programme.
Knowledge
* Experience working in a healthcare, social care organisation/setting or service industry requiring people contact.
* Experience of working within a theatre environment.
Skills
* Good communication skills and computer skills.
* Able to work as a team.
* Able to carry out well-defined routine tasks.
* Able to work on own initiative, following direction/supervision by a Registered Healthcare Practitioner.
* Able to relate well with patients/relatives/visitors/colleagues/the multi-disciplinary team and wider Trust staff.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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