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Job summary

Main area
Theatres and Anaesthesia
Grade
Band 2
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
287-RSUR-112-24
Employer
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal Liverpool Hospital
Town
Liverpool
Salary
£22,383 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
10/07/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Operating Department Orderly

Band 2

Job overview

Transferring patients between ward and theatre, assisting in transferring patient safely on to operating table.

To carry out general duties inside and outside the Operating Department within LUHFT sites.

Work flexibly within the team when required to cover staff shortage due to illness or holidays.

Main duties of the job

Transferring patients between ward and theatre, assisting in transferring patient safely on to operating table.


Lifting patients and moving them between beds, trolleys and special tables.
Preparing and maintaining patient trolleys.


Moving equipment between wards/departments and Theatres.


Receiving, sorting, and distributing appropriately, stock and supplies, including pharmacy, inline with stock rotation guidance.


Take active role in provision of a soiled/clean instruments and equipment collection/delivery service.


Assisting in the cleaning, packing and delivery of instruments and equipment within and outside the directorate, including TSSU in the theatre department.


Restock scrub rooms with gowns, towels and keep tidy.


Cleaning theatres and assisting with cleaning within the department. 

Working for our organisation

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

To hear more about our achievements click here https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Transferring patients between ward and theatre, assisting in transferring patient safely on to operating table.

Wait with patients in the anaesthetic room until operating department practitioner or nurse receive the patient.

Lifting patients and moving them between beds, trolleys and special tables.
Preparing and maintaining patient trolleys.

Moving equipment between wards/departments and Theatres.

Receiving, sorting, and distributing appropriately, stock and supplies, including pharmacy, inline with stock rotation guidance.

Disposing of sharps boxes and waste.

Providing messenger and delivery service for the Directorate.

Transporting bodies and amputated limbs to the mortuary.

Maintain the common room in tidy state.

Take active role in provision of a soiled/clean instruments and equipment collection/delivery service.

Assisting in the cleaning, packing and delivery of instruments and equipment within and outside the directorate, including TSSU in the theatre department.

Maintain a regular check on both changing rooms, ensuring that sufficient suits/dresses and footwear are available and dirty linen and rubbish bags are emptied.

Collect and wash dirty shoes in female and male changing rooms and give out shoes to doctors and visitors.

Give out new shoes to theatre personnel.

Allocate lockers to doctors, nurses, technicians and other theatre personnel, maintaining accurate records regarding locker allocation.

Restock scrub rooms with gowns, towels and keep tidy.

Sign as witness when goods received and work completed.

Taking an active role in the maintenance of equipment, ensuring that equipment for repair is taken out of commission and paperwork completed appropriately for medical engineering.

Cleaning theatres and assisting with cleaning within the department. This to include wall washing, operating lights and tables.

Changing and replacing medical gas cylinders.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • NVQ2 or equivalent.

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
  • Good communication skills.

Other

Essential criteria
  • Committed to high standards of patient care.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Fair Employment Charter Status - Aspiring LevelNHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPositive about disabled peopleInvestors in PeopleArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident committedStep into health

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Peter Davis
Job title
Charge Hand - Operating Department Orderly
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0151 706 2584
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