Theatre Scrub Practitioner /ODP

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Site: CMH Town, London

Salary: £34,521 - £41,956 Inclusive of High Cost Area Supplement

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 28/04/:59

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

Overview of Hospitals

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK.
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease.
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice.
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.

Find out more about our Trust and why you should join us

Our vision at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust is to put "Quality at our HEART". Find out more about our ambitious strategy.

We are clear that our vision can only be achieved by our staff, who are our most valuable asset.

Our vision is driven by our HEART values and behaviours which were developed together with our staff.

• H onesty
• A ccountability
• T eamwork

These values describe how we interact with each other and our patients and must underpin everything we do to achieve our vision.

LNWUH is a flexible working friendly organisation. We want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and for you. Please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part-time, or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Job Overview

We have vacancies for Band 5 Theatre Scrub Practitioner / ODP to join our Theatre team.

We are currently looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated registered nurse to join our theatre team in CMH Theatres. We have nine modern operating theatres and a fully equipped recovery unit. We cover a range of specialities in acute and elective surgery. Specialities include Colorectal, General, Urology, ENT, Ophthalmology surgery, and Electives Orthopaedics.

You will be an RGN / ODP with post-registration experience in peri-operative nursing (scrubbing and circulating) to join our theatre team. The applicant would be expected to work in all specialities with a rotation base.

You should have good communication and interpersonal skills, be willing to learn, and be prepared to utilise your skills in all peri-operative areas. A willingness to monitor the usage of equipment to ensure efficiency and cost-effective working is advantageous.

The post involves Early, Late duty, Long Day, on-call, and working Monday to Saturday.

We have a tradition of excellence and our vision is simple: to provide high-quality peri-operative care, and invest in you, the people who deliver care. We are seeking enthusiastic and committed individuals to join our team.

For further information and informal visits, please contact Matron Prabhudas Awale on or .

Main Duties of the Job

• Participate in developing and consolidating a cohesive and supportive team within the peri-operative environment.
• Ensure good communication verbally and via formal documentation and electronic sources with all members of the peri-operative nursing multidisciplinary team, patients, and families to ensure patients receive optimum care.
• Maintain the patient's right to privacy and dignity at all times.
• Communicate with all colleagues in a courteous and sympathetic manner.
• Act as an advocate for the patient and family.
• Ensure carers/family and visitors are aware of policies, standards/guidelines relevant to the patients' care or clinical area.
• Work in partnership with the patient and family and other healthcare professionals in care/discharge planning.
• Accept responsibility; be aware and able to locate all policies relating to good working practice within the clinical area and able to adhere to both by self and others.
• Recognize the legal implications of nursing documentation therefore maintaining accurate records.
• Maintain accurate and legible records of patient care in line with Trust policies and NMC/HCPC Code of Conduct.
• Adhere to the NMC/HCPC Code of Conduct and Trust policies pertaining to patient confidentiality/the Data Protection Act/Caldicott Recommendations.
• To adhere to the trust swabs/instruments/needles count policy and WHO surgical checklist procedures.

Working for Our Organisation

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Detailed Job Description and Main Responsibilities

To view the main responsibilities, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification Theatre Nursing

• Knowledge and experience: Have appropriate knowledge and skills to provide holistic care to patients in a perioperative and day care setting.
• Ability to learn peri-operative skills.
• Basic insight into peri-operative practice.

Skills, Abilities, and Attributes

• Competent to undertake a variety of roles within the ACAD and BECAD complex (to assess, plan, deliver and evaluate the specialised nursing care of adults being prepared for, undergoing and recovering from anaesthesia).

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We promote the wellbeing and safety of all our patients and carers by acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately, according to the standards determined by our policy and procedures. All posts working with vulnerable groups will be subject to an enhanced criminal records check upon appointment and staff will need to give their consent for the Trust to receive regular updates on their criminal records status throughout their employment.

Due to the high volumes of applications we receive for certain posts, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications. After the closing date, we strongly advise you check the email account which is registered. If you have not heard from us within four weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.

Our employment checking processes require that all shortlisted applicants provide the contact details of their current HR Department. If shortlisted, you will be sent an email reminder to present the contact details of your HR Department at the interview.

Please note the Trust uses identity checking software for verifying the authenticity of identity documents provided by candidates.

As part of our commitment to Equality and Diversity at LNWUH, we are encouraging applications from BME (Black, Minority Ethnic) candidates as we seek to ensure our workforce structures are representative of the diversity of the communities we serve.

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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.