Theatre Practitioner - Scrub, Anaesthetics and Recovery
- Employer
- Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
- Location
- Manchester
- Salary
- £29,970 to £36,483 Per Annum (Pro Rata)
- Closing date
- 9 Oct 2024
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- Profession
- Other Health Profession
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
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Within the surgical team you will help manage the preparation of the operating theatres.
Skills needed
Ability to work within a team
Ability to work in a highly technical area
Excellent problem solving and organisational skills
Excellent communication skills
Thorough, thoughtful, and conscientious approach to working
Anaesthetic
To help and support patients before surgery, preparing a wide range of specialist equipment and drugs, including anaesthetic machines, intravenous equipment and devices that safely secure the patient's airway during anaesthesia
Surgery
You'll play an important part of the surgical team by preparing all the necessary equipment for surgery, including microscopes, lasers, and endoscopes
You will ensure the correct safety checks are carried out prior to the start of the procedure and are responsible for all surgical instruments, equipment, and swabs during the operation.
You will become efficient and effective in anticipating the requirements of the surgical team and responding effectively ensuring high standards of clinical outcome and best patient experience
Recovery
You'll support and monitor patient on arrival to the recovery area and provide appropriate treatment until they have recovered from the effects of the anaesthesia and/or surgery assessing and treating the patient until they are discharged to a ward
Main duties of the job
Develop as an autonomous practitioner with indirect support of seniors
Prepare for emergencies that might occur
Plan the day relating to workload assessing specific requirements to deliver optimum care
Provide planned peri-operative care, focusing on individual patients' needs
Scrub
Maintain a sterile field mitigating risk of infection
Accountability for swabs, needles instrumentation and equipment used for procedures
Safe specimen labelling and transportation
Return instruments for decontamination to sterile services, with appropriate paperwork and reporting defects
Anaesthetic
Provide assistance to the anaesthetist
Manage controlled drugs
Assist in transfer of critically ill patients within the hospital and externally if necessary
Recovery
Carry out the preliminary checking of all required equipment
Receive patients from theatre, ensuring information pertaining to the patient's care needs, identification, anaesthetic and surgery is correct
Participate in the post-operative recovery of patients at all levels of dependency
Assess patient's condition, pain and airway requirements, administer analgesics as prescribed
Liaise with medical staff any adverse changes with the patient
Provide care for high dependency ventilated patients in the absence of HDU beds
Ensure the patient meets the discharge criteria prior to returning to the ward area
Ensure the safe and effective transfer of information regarding the patient's perioperative journey is handed over to the ward staff
About us
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of �2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity MattersMFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Skills
Essential
Knowledge
Essential
Employer details
Employer name
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Wythenshawe Hospital
Southmoor Road
Manchester
M23 9LT
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
349-WTWA-6652366*
Skills needed
Ability to work within a team
Ability to work in a highly technical area
Excellent problem solving and organisational skills
Excellent communication skills
Thorough, thoughtful, and conscientious approach to working
Anaesthetic
To help and support patients before surgery, preparing a wide range of specialist equipment and drugs, including anaesthetic machines, intravenous equipment and devices that safely secure the patient's airway during anaesthesia
Surgery
You'll play an important part of the surgical team by preparing all the necessary equipment for surgery, including microscopes, lasers, and endoscopes
You will ensure the correct safety checks are carried out prior to the start of the procedure and are responsible for all surgical instruments, equipment, and swabs during the operation.
You will become efficient and effective in anticipating the requirements of the surgical team and responding effectively ensuring high standards of clinical outcome and best patient experience
Recovery
You'll support and monitor patient on arrival to the recovery area and provide appropriate treatment until they have recovered from the effects of the anaesthesia and/or surgery assessing and treating the patient until they are discharged to a ward
Main duties of the job
Develop as an autonomous practitioner with indirect support of seniors
Prepare for emergencies that might occur
Plan the day relating to workload assessing specific requirements to deliver optimum care
Provide planned peri-operative care, focusing on individual patients' needs
Scrub
Maintain a sterile field mitigating risk of infection
Accountability for swabs, needles instrumentation and equipment used for procedures
Safe specimen labelling and transportation
Return instruments for decontamination to sterile services, with appropriate paperwork and reporting defects
Anaesthetic
Provide assistance to the anaesthetist
Manage controlled drugs
Assist in transfer of critically ill patients within the hospital and externally if necessary
Recovery
Carry out the preliminary checking of all required equipment
Receive patients from theatre, ensuring information pertaining to the patient's care needs, identification, anaesthetic and surgery is correct
Participate in the post-operative recovery of patients at all levels of dependency
Assess patient's condition, pain and airway requirements, administer analgesics as prescribed
Liaise with medical staff any adverse changes with the patient
Provide care for high dependency ventilated patients in the absence of HDU beds
Ensure the patient meets the discharge criteria prior to returning to the ward area
Ensure the safe and effective transfer of information regarding the patient's perioperative journey is handed over to the ward staff
About us
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of �2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity MattersMFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse
- Degree or Diploma
Desirable
- Degree
- Mentorship Qualification
- Registered Operating Department Practitioner
- Anaesthetic and Recovery Qualification
- Scrub experience
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working on own and as part of a team
- Ability to supervise and support junior staff
- Evidence of teaching and assessing skills/ability
- Awareness of clinical Audit
Desirable
- Evidence undertaking a mentor/preceptor role
- Experience in relevant area of practice
Skills
Essential
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Able to work as part of a team
- Proven ability to problem- solve.
- Demonstrates awareness of own limitations.
- Ability to organise workload and delegate tasks appropriately.
- Well developed organisational skills.
- Dexterity and accuracy in physical skills.
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of current nursing issues
- Knowledge of clinical governance
- IT/ Word Processing
Employer details
Employer name
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Wythenshawe Hospital
Southmoor Road
Manchester
M23 9LT
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
349-WTWA-6652366*
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