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37.5 hours per week- Permanent

£28,407.00 to £ 34,581.00 Per Annum

Advert Closes - 18th August

Interview date: 7th September

Due to recent promotions within our Theatres, we are looking for staff to join our newly refurbished Obstetric Theatre Department.

Opportunities have arisen to recruit highly motivated and enthusiastic Band 5 Theatre Practitioners for Scrub and Recovery placements.

You will be joining a dynamic team of ODPS’s and nurses with a proactive approach to delivering best standards of preoperative patient care. If you enjoy Obstetrics and enjoy a challenging, ever-changing environment with a strong emphasis on multi-professional team working, then this could be the job for you.

Due to the nature of Obstetric Theatres, the expectation is that the department will be staffed 24/7, therefore this role would require you to work various shifts to cover days, nights and weekends.

These posts are open to:

• Newly Qualified Registered Nurses/Operating Department Practitioners, or students due to qualify within the next 3 months/awaiting PIN number.
• ExperiencedRegistered Nurses with no Theatre experience
• Experienced Registered Theatre Nurses/Operating Department Practitioner

Appropriate induction/training/preceptorship programme will be given to the successful candidate.

• Responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care to patients in the perioperative environment.
• Takes charge of theatre as delegated by the Senior Team Leader for a specified period of time.
• Acts as leader, delegating tasks and supervising the standard of care delivered by more junior qualified theatre staff, support theatre staff and students within the perioperative teams.
• Assists the Senior Team Leader and Professional Development Team (theatre) in the management of preceptorship of newly qualified staff, return to practice staff and the mentorship of nursing /ODP students and health care support workers.

Here at George Eliot our vision to‘excel at patient care’takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:

Effective Open Communication

excellence and safety in everything we do

Challenge but support

Expect respect and dignity

Local health that inspires confidence

• • Deliver a high standard of perioperative care without direct supervision, based upon a sound evidence base.
• To provide skilled clinical assistance to the surgical, anaesthetic and recovery teams.
• Undertakes and documents a comprehensive, systematic and accurate perioperative care assessment of the physical social and spiritual needs of the patient where appropriate.
• Creates and utilizes opportunities to promote health and wellbeing of patients in their care.
• Leads a perioperative team to manage a group of patients throughout a shift.
• Working within the NMC/HCPC Guidelines and Trust Policies recognising one’s own abilities and limitations.
• Maintain a good standard of communication with the multi-disciplinary team and respect the confidentiality of patients, relatives and colleagues.
• To ensure 24 hour cover, working rotational shifts to include earlies, lates, nights, weekends and Bank Holidays.