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Theatre Practitioner Band 5

We are looking for dynamic, highly motivated applicants to work in Theatre on any of our four sites: Good Hope Hospital, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Solihull Hospital We cover many specialities including Obs & Gynae, Trauma & Orthopaedics, Interventional Radiology, Thoracic, Cardiac, Liver, Neuro, Plastics, Burns, Hands, General, Urology, Renal, Maxillofacial, ENT, Vascular, Paediatrics, Ophthalmology, Day case surgery and Emergency.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust has recently opened the Heartlands Treatment Centre (HTC) at the Heartlands site, bringing together diagnostic, therapeutic and treatment services under one roof.

Our team have told us what they need and we've listened. If you are looking for hours to fit around your family, we can tailor our offering to you. This could be working weekend's only, condensed hours or maybe it's just keeping your interest by offering you one shift a week. We would adapt our rosters to secure your talent. All we ask for is that you provide the very best care to our patients and work with our teams to ensure patient safety and compliance.

You will be required to cover a range of shifts, which will include weekends, bank holidays, early/late/night duty, and the out of hours on call services.

Main duties, tasks & skills required

Division 1 theatres are an exciting place to work; full of challenges, development opportunities and delivers great job satisfaction within a supportive and enjoyable environment. We have full/part time jobs for Band 5 Registered Theatre practitioners (RN/ODP) with any amount of experience. All we ask for is that you provide the very best care to our patients and work with our teams to ensure patient quality and safe care is delivered.

With any role within UHB, each post comes with the support of our education team and managers. This is extended by support from our School of Nursing, AHPs and Midwifery. The School offers exciting opportunities for career growth and development, and our focus is on providing a supportive environment as part of your continuing professional development. We want you to feel a sense of belonging, community, commitment and support.

If you like what you hear about the incredible work our theatres team are involved in, please contact [email protected] and we will put you in touch with someone to answer any questions you may have. If you are not looking for a new job at this time we are happy to discuss future opportunities with you.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

Job description

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Adult Nurse/Operating Department Practitioner on the NMC/HCPC Register
• Evidence and ability to revalidate as required by the NMC/HCPC

Experience

Essential

• Previous/recent experience of working in an acute / NHS care setting (can include student/ trainee placements within the last 12 months)
• Evidence of achievements and career development in current post of 0n-going professional development/competence.
• Experience of working on own and in a team in a health care environment delegating others within a team/providing supervision to others
• Can articulate willingness & demonstrate knowledge in relation to student supervision and assessment
• (Can include experience as student Nurse registered nurse for newly qualified applicants)
• Understanding and knowledge of the NMC/HCPC code of conduct
• Awareness of current relevant NHS policy context in relation to the role
• Can demonstrate an understanding / experience of the principles of Safeguarding and Mental Capacity and how this related to the role
• Awareness of health and safety issues

Desirable

• Previous experience working in a theatres environment pre or post registration

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Ability to read/write, speaks, receive and understand instruction in English.
• Good IT skills ability to record information electronically
• Ability to communicate articulately and motivate others
• Competent in a range of clinical skills / practices relevant to the scope of practice required, demonstrates willingness to learn specific skills associated with the practice setting.
• Evidence of or the ability to demonstrate a clear understanding and passion of the following.
• Time management / Delegation of duties and orientation of new / temporary staff
• Professional behaviour / relationship management
• Clinical audit / learning from incidents
• Care of a group of patients/shift management and clinical leadership relevant to the practise setting.
• Displays genuine interest in the post applied for and can articulate this when questioned
• Caring and approachable
• Punctual, reliable
• Ability to work a varied shift pattern including nights / weekends unsocial hours, public holidays and on call where required.
• The applicant can describe why the Trust may deploy them to a different practice setting for a span of duty.
• Ability to travel to all hospital sites as required by the role.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Professional Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.