Job summary
Job Title: Anaesthetic and Recovery Theatre Practitioner
Hours per week: Hours per week
Perm/Fixed Term: Permanent
Salary: £28,407 - £34,581 per annum
Closing Date: 12th December2024
Interview Date: TBC
**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. **
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Main duties of the job
1. Maintaining a safe and clean environment within the clinical area in accordance with the Trusts 'policies and guidelines
2. Deliver a high standard of perioperative care based upon a sound evidence base.
3. Provide skilled clinical assistance to the surgical, anaesthetic and recovery teams.
4. Maintaining timely and accurate patient care documentation, ensuring that confidentiality is respected
5. Creates and utilizes opportunities to promote health and wellbeing of patients in our care.
6. Communicating with and assisting the multidisciplinary team to always promote excellence in the delivery of patient care.
7. Leads a perioperative team to manage a group of patients throughout a shift.
8. Working within the NMC/HCPC Guidelines and Trust Policies recognising one's own abilities and limitations.
9. To ensure 24-hour cover, working rotational shifts to include earlies, lates, nights, weekends, and Bank Holidays.
About us
Here at George Eliot our vision to ' excel at patient care' takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:
E ffective Open Communication
e x cellence and safety in everything we do
C hallenge but support
E xpect respect and dignity
L ocal health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, extensive in-house course learning directory, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Job description
Job responsibilities
10. Ensure that adequate resources are available to meet the needs of the patients, and contribute to cost improvement programmes.
11. Contribute to the maintenance of appropriate stock levels and have an awareness of materials management.
12. Ensure that all equipment for patient use is kept in good working order in line with current Regulations.
13. Ensure that adequate skill mix is available to meet the needs of the patients. If deficits are unavoidable, contact the appropriate Senior Staff for support.
14. Ensure that concerns and complaints from patients, visitors or colleagues are resolved where possible and reported to the Team Leader / Senior Team Leader.
15. Deputise for the Team Leader as and when necessary.
16. Have a positive attitude to continuing professional development to enhance knowledge, skills and attitudes needed for safe and effective perioperative practice.
17. Participate in Trust Appraisal System.
18. Possess a clear understanding of Clinical Governance in relation to standards of care, support of colleagues and audit of given care.
19. Participate in the utilisation, evaluation and conduct of audit and research.
20. Contribute to and evaluate the implantation of new ideas and innovations within the Theatre areas.
21. Promote a professional image by acting as a role model to others, provide and participate in clinical supervision. Act as a source of advice and support for other colleagues. Ensures that the Team Leader/Senior Team Leader is informed of any Professional concerns at the earliest opportunity.
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
Person Specification
Qualification(s) and Professional Training
Essential
22. Registered General Nurse and/or Registered Operating Department Practitioner, (Diploma in Operating Department Practice/NVQ level3/C&G752) or Pending qualification with NMC, Registered General Nurse or HCPC, Registered Operating Department Practitioner
Desirable
23. Post Graduate Qualification
24. Mentoring & Assessing Qualification (396CPD, 308CPD, 209CPD, 324NS, 998ENB
25. Assessing/Verification Award, (D32/33 or A/V award)
26. Teaching Qualification (C&G 730
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
27. Minimum of 12 months post registration within the Perioperative environment or Newly qualified RGN/RODP
Desirable
28. Evidence of research or clinical audit
Skills and Abilities
Essential
29. Experienced Recovery Practitioner
Desirable
30. Experienced Anaesthetic Practitioner
Personal Qualities
Essential
31. Excellent communication skills
32. Enthusiastic
33. Positive working relationships
34. Ability to motivate others
35. Good health record
36. Leadership skills
37. Good organizational skills
38. Ability to work under pressure to meet required deadlines
Other
Essential
39. A commitment to equal opportunities
Trust Values
Essential
40. Effective open communication
41. Excellence and safety in everything we do
42. Challenge but support
43. Expect respect and dignity
44. Local health that inspires confidence