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Main area: Anaesthetics Theatres Grade: NHS AfC: Band 5 Contract: Permanent Hours:
* Full time
* Part time
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (out of hours and weekend working) Job ref: 284-24-6839311-DSRG
Site: Birmingham Children's Hospital Town: Birmingham Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum / pro rata Salary period: Yearly Closing: 24/12/2024 23:59
Flexible working arrangements may be considered and discussions with the recruiting manager regarding this are encouraged.
Job overview
We are looking to recruit Band 5 Anaesthetic Practitioners to join our dedicated theatre team here at Birmingham Children’s Hospital. This is an exciting opportunity to develop core skills and gain valuable experiences, working in a specialised centre for paediatric surgery. You will be working within a large multidisciplinary team, across any of our different specialties that we offer here, ranging from complex cardiac surgery to day case procedures. The successful candidate will need to be empathetic, professional and respectful, adhering to our trust values in order to deliver the best possible care to our patients.
If you are seeking a new challenge within your career, then this exciting opportunity could be the one for you!
Main duties of the job
The Children's Hospital theatres are an exciting place to work; full of challenges, development opportunities and delivers great job satisfaction within a supportive and enjoyable environment.
With any role within the Children's Hospital, all practitioners are supported by our Theatre Leads, Managers and the Education team on their journey. This is in addition to The Birmingham Children's Hospital dedicated Education team. The successful potholder will have exciting opportunities for career growth and development, and our focus is on providing a supportive environment as part of your continuing professional development.
Working for our organisation
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.
Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.
Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.
Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.
Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.
When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).
Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Person specification
Qualifications
* NMC Registered Nurse OR HCPC Registered ODP
* BSc or Diploma in Nursing or Operating Department Practice or Equivalent
Knowledge and Nature of Experience
* Experience of post-registration operating department practice or current clinical nursing experience
* Evidence of supervising and assessing students
Analytical and Judgement Skills
* Able to think quickly in a rapidly changing acute environment
* Able to use own professional judgement to make clinical decisions about Patient’s condition and the level of care required.
* Able to appropriately analyse patient’s condition to ensure smooth transfer of care back to the ward.
Professional / Managerial / Specialist Knowledge
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills
* Able to work well independently and as part of a team
* Able to engage with IT programmes that support patient care
* Able to work flexibly to meet service including weekend and late shifts
* Participate in specialty on calls as required
Other Requirements
* Demonstrate an understanding of the practices of equality and inclusion
* Demonstrate conduct and behaviors in keeping with the NMC Code/ HCPC regulations
Our current Mental Health Services division may be transferring the provision of its services to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust (BSMHFT). Whilst at present you are applying for a position within Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation should you be successful in gaining a position within Mental Health Services, your employment may in the future be transferred over to BSMHFT. Should any new information become available, you will be kept informed of this throughout your recruitment process.
As a Trust employee you are required to comply with all legislation and guidance relating to safeguarding children and adults with care and support needs, and promoting their health and welfare. You are required to inform the Head of Safeguarding of any safeguarding concerns about your own children or children you live with. This information will be treated in a confidential manner.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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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