An opportunity has arisen for Anaesthetic ODPs & Registered Nurses to join a highly motivated multi-disciplinary team. Our departments are focused on delivering patient-centred care, with an emphasis on quality, patient safety, and staff engagement.
Theatres are building a dynamic multi-skilled workforce. This position would look favourably at flexibility into recovery and/or scrub areas and an internal rotation across our sites.
Main duties of the job
To be eligible for this position, you must be a registered nurse with a nationally recognised anaesthetic qualification or an Operating Department Practitioner. You will be enthusiastic, dynamic, motivated, and have excellent communication and interpersonal skills. This post involves a 24-hour working pattern including weekends and night duty. We provide staff with training and development opportunities and actively encourage CPD.
We have numerous specialities at WWL, the acute site providing a 24-hour emergency and obstetric service with speciality-specific elective surgery such as ENT, laparoscopic, orthopaedic trauma, urology, and gynaecology. Wrightington is our orthopaedic elective centre and Leigh our day surgery unit.
About us
Choose Well - Choose WWL
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that 'happy staff makes for happy patients'. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement and living our values 'the WWL Way'.
WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind, we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key results from the job holder
The post holder must hold a nationally recognised anaesthetic qualification. A dual role into specialities of Recovery and Scrub will be an advantage.
The post holder will demonstrate responsibility for:
1. Identifying what is required of self in delivering individualised patient care.
2. Developing competencies in self that safeguard practice and effectiveness in role.
3. Ensuring compliance with NMC / HCPC Codes of Conduct.
4. Participation in the effective use of allocated resources / funding.
5. Demonstrating awareness of and participation in development to meet demands, and adapt to the changing needs of the service.
6. Empowering self and colleagues to creatively meet professional and organisational objectives.
7. Promoting safe systems, which assure all aspects of risk reduction, compliant with the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the agenda for Clinical Governance.
8. Demonstrating an awareness of local/national policies and strategies, and ensure up-to-date working knowledge of legal matters that may impact within the clinical area.
9. Identifying, maintaining, and improving the quality of care through application of evidence-based practice.
10. Participating in self-development and development of less experienced staff to creatively meet professional and organisational objectives.
Internal rotation
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* RN 1st Level with University module care of the anaesthetised patient or Registered ODP.
Experience
Essential
* Demonstrate ability as a professional role model.
* Experience of working on own and as a member of a team.
Skills
Essential
* Participation in research/audit.
* Ability to maintain and improve standards of care.
* Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
Knowledge
Essential
* Up-to-date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues.
* Understanding of research/audit.
* Knowledge of evidence-based practice.
Additional
Essential
* Internal Rotation.
* Flexibility, adaptability, and positive approach to work.
* Enthusiasm/Motivation.
* Speak English to an appropriate standard relevant to their role, i.e., with confidence and accuracy, using correct sentence structures and vocabulary, and without hesitation.
Employer details
Employer name
Wrightington Wigan & Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, Wigan
Wigan Lane
Wigan
WN1 2NN
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