Employer: Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: The Royal Surrey Hospital
Town: Guildford
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum including HCAS, add 15% retention & recruitment premia
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 11/03/2025 23:59
Band 5
Job overview
Registered Anaesthetic Practitioner - Band 5
Registered Operating Department Practitioner/Nurse
Operating Theatre Department - Main Theatres & Day Surgery
Band 5 - Permanent - Full-Time (37.5 hours pw)
If you are ready for a change and want to be part of a great team then come and work here! We are looking for dynamic, flexible and highly motivated individuals who enjoy working in a team and are seeking a new challenge. The theatre suites here at the RSCH are busy, multi-specialty units committed to delivering a high standard of care.
Your enthusiasm and organisation skills along with your ability to prioritise and remain calm under pressure in a busy team environment will ensure you are able to demonstrate your excellent communication skills and drive to succeed.
We are leaders in Major Laparoscopic Surgery & Robotic Surgery with the Minimal Access Therapy Training Unit – an internationally recognised centre of excellence created for the teaching of innovative laparoscopic surgical techniques.
Specialties here include: Colorectal, Urology, Gynae Oncology, Hepatobiliary, Upper GI, Breast Surgery, Ophthalmology, Obstetrics, Major Head and Neck and ENT, Trauma & Orthopaedics and CEPOD.
Students are welcome to apply.
Main duties of the job
Who we’re looking for:
1. Registered Operating Department Practitioner/Anaesthetic Nurse
2. Working in teams or with minimum supervision
3. Experience in a caring role
4. Competence across a range of skills and specialties, supported by clinical knowledge
Some of the benefits of joining our team include:
1. A strong emphasis on your work/life balance
2. Excellent learning and development opportunities
3. Employee discounts through Vivup
4. Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave for eligible staff
5. Confidential telephone care service providing independent support and advice for staff.
Our recent CQC inspection found us to be ‘providing services that were safe, effective, responsive caring and well-led’.
Working for our organisation
Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information regarding your main duties and responsibilities including required skills, qualifications and experience, please refer to the job description and person specification link to the right.
Provide high quality individualised patient care at all times.
Prepare the clinical environment to meet the requirements of the operating list and anticipated workload.
Take part in or lead all stages of WHO Surgical Safety Checklist prior to undertaking any procedure.
Ensure the safe preparation of the patient for operative procedures.
Provide skilled assistance to the anaesthetist during anaesthetic procedures as required within operational policies.
Assist with the safe transfer and positioning of patients onto the operating table.
Act as scrubbed or circulating assistant as required, carry out checks and counts on swabs, needles, instruments and equipment in accordance with Trust policies.
Comply with Health and Safety, Infection Control, COSHH and AAGBI regulations, adhering to Trust and departmental policies and procedures.
Ensure equipment and stock levels are maintained appropriately.
To act as a trained and skilled member of the priority & trauma team.
Prepare and administer prescribed drugs to patients according to Trust Policy, and monitor the effects of those drugs.
Monitor, assess and implement individualised perioperative patient care, including post resuscitation and in the immediate post-operative period for level 1, 2 & 3 patients.
Maintain clinical records in accordance with current guidelines.
Communicate effectively with patients, colleagues and other Trust staff.
Report any adverse incidents to the appropriate person and via online reporting system without delay and according to policy.
Person specification
Qualifications
* City and Guilds 752/NVQ Level 3/ Dip HE in Operating Department Practice. Anaesthetic Nurses – ENB 182 or equivalent UK recognised qualification in Anaesthetics
Knowledge and Experience
* Demonstrable knowledge of perioperative practice including up to date knowledge of AAGBI, NICE and DAS guidelines.
* Demonstrable knowledge of normal and altered anatomy and physiology including commonly encountered pre-existing patient conditions
* Possess underpinning knowledge of pharmacology in perioperative care
* Member of relevant professional body - HCPC or NMC (unless student – whereupon pin will be attained upon qualification)
* CPD - Evidence of post qualification experience and continuing professional development
* Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy/national guidance/CQC/ and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
Skills and Capabilities
* Ability to communicate effectively with patients, colleagues and within the multidisciplinary team
* Ability to assess patients and develop individualised, high quality perioperative care plan
* Be able to recognise and act upon changes in patients physiological parameters
* Management Skills and leadership skills - Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others.
* Ability to work where appropriate with autonomy and in line with National and Local Policy
* Ability to escalate issues to appropriate senior staff in difficult or challenging circumstances and remain calm under pressure
* IT Skills – use of e-mail and keyboard skills preferable
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.
Name: Lara Goodchild
Job title: Joint Anaesthetic Team Lead
Email address: lara.goodchild@nhs.net
Telephone number: 01483 571122
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