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Theatre Nurse / Operating Department Practitioner

Employer
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Location
Cramlington
Salary
£28,407 to £34,581 per annum
Closing date
18 Jun 2024
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Profession
Nurse, Adult nurse, Theatre nurse
Grade
Band 5
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Northumbria NHS Foundation Trust has an exciting opportunity for you to work full time, within theatres recovery.

You can build your career further when you join our team. Part of our Northumbria Way is a commitment to supporting you to develop your clinical skills, as well as any career or leadership aspirations you may have. To enhance and broaden your career, we offer several schemes and training opportunities to maximise your personal development.

The Recovery Theatres team has a state of the art recovery facilities, attached to the theatres across the Trust.

We have twenty seven Adult and Obstetrics theatres within Northumbria NHS Foundation Trust covering a diverse range of both elective and emergency work in a variety of specialties including General Surgery, Robotics, Trauma and Orthopaedics and Obstetrics.

We have position at Theatres Recovery at Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital Cramlington.

Main duties of the job

Delivering excellent standards of care and providing patient support throughout the recovery phase, advocating on behalf of the dependent patient. Undertaking the recovery practitioner role, ensuring safe environment and practice is maintained. Working with, and supporting other members of the multi-disciplinary team. Preparation and monitoring of the environment of care, and equipment. Supervising junior colleagues, unregistered staff and students.

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.

Job description

Job responsibilities

  • In partnership with other professionals and disciplines, develop measurable patient care plans/goals. The process should include assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care from admission to timely transfer or discharge.
  • Take charge of the clinical needs of a group of defined patients on the ward /department prioritising workload according to changing clinical need over a 24 period.
  • Delegate tasks and activities to a range of team members in relation to patient care (for example when taking charge or as link nurse)
  • Ensure nursing documentation is maintained, accurate and timely in line with the Trust standard.
  • To demonstrate awareness and compliance with Trust policies, procedures, guidelines and standards. To work towards promoting this to others.
  • Promote and maintain a safe environment for patients.
  • Administer medicines in accordance with Trust policy.


Person Specification

Recovery Nurse / ODP

Essential

  • 1 st Level live NMC Registered General Nurse or Operating Department Practitioner qualification
  • Evidence of ongoing practice development
  • Mentorship Qualification or relevant equivalent qualification (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18 month period).


Desirable

  • Recognised post graduate theatre/anaesthetic qualification
  • Recognised teaching qualification
  • Post Registration qualification in specialty
  • Diploma/degree in nursing/or health related topic


Employer details

Employer name

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Northumbria

Northumbria Way

Cramlington

NE23 6NZ

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