Job summary
- Main area
- Theatres
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (long days, on call and nigh shift required)
- Job ref
- 361-6793557
- Employer
- East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lister Hospital
- Town
- Stevenage
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/12/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 13/12/2024
Employer heading
ODP/ Anaesthetic Nurse - Theatres
NHS AfC: Band 5
Here at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust,
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service
Job overview
We are recruiting for a Registered Nurse/ODP in Theatres who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
Theatres is an expanding service providing excellent care now to include admission and recovery of elective patients and a continued emergency service for the Trust. This role may be of interest for nurses who have experience in either Operating Theatres, Day Surgery, and or general surgical experience.
The team currently covers 24/7 365 days a year you will be expected to work evenings, nights, on calls, bank holidays and weekends as part of a rotation with other team members.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
Adhere to NMC/HCPC Code at all times. They should demonstrate commitment to provide a safe and cost efficient, quality patient care through effective team working.
Expected to function clinically within the Main Operating Theatres, Treatment Centre, Day Surgery Unit and other associated areas as required.
Participate in the training of junior staff and continue their own personal and professional development. They should honour the Trust’s Core values by demonstrating appropriate behaviours and encouraging this in others.
Maintain a high standard of documentation in accordance with NMC/HCPC for Record keeping.
Participation in on- calls and out of hours working is needed by all staff, regardless of the department they are based in, to provide emergency access to our most acutely ill patients.
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse or Registered ODP
- Must be willing to undertake relevant post registration courses as advised by the Practice Educators/ Theatre Team Leaders
Desirable criteria
- ILS/ALS
- PILS
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Gained through undertaking relevant study
Desirable criteria
- Post qualification experience within the perioperative setting
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good interpersonal and communication skills
- Basic IT skills
- Ability to demonstrate initiatives
- Clear written and spoken English
Desirable criteria
- Good planning skills
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Aware of the National 6 Cs campaign
- Aware of Trust’s Values
- An understanding of peri-operative patient care
- Understanding of aseptic technique
- Teamwork
- Participate in audit
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Conrado Evangelista
- Job title
- Theatre Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01438288004
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