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Job overview

As a centre for excellence for Orthopaedic surgery there is an opportunity for a Surgical First Assistant to join our team.

You will work closely with the rest of the team to ensure the delivery of care within our organisation.  Providing expert clinical assistance and support to the patient,  consultant surgeons,  junior medical and theatre staff involved in Orthopaedic surgery.

There are 20 operating theatres at the Freeman Hospital, of which four theatres are designated for elective Orthopaedic lists.

You will need to be a highly organised individual with excellent communication skills.  Flexibility will be essential for anyone wishing to apply for this post.  An important part of your role will be teaching staff with the MDT so you must have a recognised teaching qualification.  You must have a theatre scrub background to be eligible to apply for this post.  Freeman Orthopaedic Team have robotic hip and knee replacement facilities. We are also a centre for complex revision and osteosarcoma surgery.

The successful candidate must have the Surgical First Assistant (Advance Scrub Practitioner) qualification to be offered a Band 6.  If you do not not have this qualification, there will be an expectation that the course will be completed within 12-18 months of your start date and you would remain on a Band 5 salary until this was completed.

Main duties of the job

• Interview Date: 7 August 2024

• 37 hours 30 minutes/week

• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy.  Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.

You will have significant Orthopaedic experience.  You will be expected to provide expert surgical assistance to Consultant Surgeons, junior medical staff, theatre staff and patients involved in Orthopaedics and to meet the needs of our services to ensure the provision of safe patient-centred care.

Suitable post for an experienced registered nurse / ODP,  who has demonstrated a high level of clinical achievement and clinical excellence wishing to expand sphere of skills, responsibilities and influence in specialist area.

Working for our organisation

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.

We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 2 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.