Anaesthetic Practitioner

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust in London is seeking a qualified Anaesthetic Nurse or ODP to join the Theatre team at University Hospital Lewisham. You will support anaesthetists, prepare equipment and monitor patients before and during anaesthesia.

The role requires HCPC/NMC registration and an anaesthetic course; you will lead where needed and help maintain safe, high-quality care across the operative journey.

Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to plan, problem solve and prioritise.
• Experience of audit and research based practice.

Responsibilities

• Provide high standard of evidence-based care throughout the operative journey.
• Provide leadership, guidance and support to nursing staff in the clinical area.
• Take responsibility for management and co-ordination of the clinical area in the absence of the Theatre and Recovery Co-ordinator.
• Maintain accurate and legible records of clinical and legal documentation, including incident reporting.
• Ensure all aspects of care meet HCPC/NMC policies and Trust procedures.
• Liaise with multi-professional team to ensure care is planned, delivered and evaluated.

Skills

Interpersonal communication

Verbal communication

Written communication

Education

HCPC registration (ODP)

NMC registration (Nurse)

Anaesthetic course

Job description

Step into a place where exceptional care, patients, culture, and careers come together.

Explore our current vacancies and take your first step toward making a real difference.

Join us. Make a difference. Be part of Team LGT.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the IC S in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Job overview

We are seeking dedicated and motivated qualified professionals to join us in the Theatre department at the University Hospital Lewisham ( UHL).

The operating theatres at UHL provide elective and emergency services 24/7 in orthopaedics, colorectal, general, gynaecology, urology, ENT, Paediatrics, Bariatrics, Trauma, CEPOD and obstetrics.

Patient safety throughout patient journey in theatre, making sure correct equipment is always available.

Anaesthetic nurse/ODP to provide direct patient care prior and during anaesthesia. Assists the anaesthetists in the provision of anaesthetics. Prepares equipment and monitoring.

As a member of the team, participates in establishing a positive working environment in which patients receive a high standard of care delivery.

Utilising the principles of the national framework and local strategy of Clinical Governance and other national initiatives, they will participate in action on improvements in patient care. The post holder will carry out all duties in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery (NMC) Codes of Conduct, Health Care Professional Council (HCPC) and Relevant Trust policies.

Main duties of the job

• As a member of the team, participates in establishing a positive working environment in which patients receive a high standard of care delivery.
• Personally deliver a high standard of care to patients and participate in assessing, planning and evaluation of individualised patient care.
• Act as team leader where required and clinical role model at all times.
• Ensure that all patients are cared for in a safe environment and maintains the safety and well-being of patients, staff and visitors in line with Health and Safety guidelines.
• Personally acts within and ensures adherence to all Trust and Departmental policies and procedures.
• Participate in the care, custody and administration of medicines in accordance with Trust and local policy.
• Assist the Theatre and Recovery Co-ordinator in providing advice, guidance, support and professional leadership for all clinical staff in the theatre department.
• Assist in developing the department philosophy and framework of care in line with unit/organisational and beliefs/values.
• Ensure the provision of advice, support and health information to patients and their carers in order to promote a health-based service.
• Ensure workload of colleagues does not jeopardise safe standards of practice and initiate action if necessary.
• Participate in the daily checking and maintenance of essential equipment.
• Transports/manages people and/or items such as equipment or specimens safely and to time consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

• Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
• Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
• Improving the experience of staff with disability
• Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
• Making equalities mainstream

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• The post holder will be responsible for providing a high standard of evidence-based care to patients throughout their operative journey in the Lewisham Surgical Centre , within the guidelines of the Trust, the HCPC and the NMC.
• The post holder will provide leadership, guidance and support to all nursing staff within the clinical area, and will assist with the training and development of junior staff and students.
• The post holder will take responsibility for the management and co-ordination of the clinical area in conjunction with and in the absence of the Theatre and Recovery Co-ordinator. Maintain accurate and legible records of all clinical and legal documentation to include accident / incident reporting, with regard to HCPC/NMC statutory and Trust polices.
• Ensures all aspects of clinical care including interventions and investigations are performed, assessed and reported upon in a timely fashion and in a manner consistent with legislation, policy and procedures.
• Liaise with all members of the multi-professional team to ensure that care is assessed, planned, delivered and evaluated within a multi-professional framework, in the interests of the patient, and that care is communicated to all team members.

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

• Qualified ODP with HCPC registration or Qualified Nurse with NMC registration and relevant anaesthetic course

Knowledge

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to plan, problem solve and prioritise
• Experience of audit and research based practice
• Ability to influence and negotiate with others

Experience

• Minimum 2 years’ experience working in theatres at Band 5 level
• Experience working at Band 6 level

We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.

As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women’s staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Please note: Information provided during recruitment and pre‑employment checks must be accurate. Misrepresentation may be investigated as fraud and could lead to withdrawal from the process, professional sanctions, or criminal action.

Please note: that sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route is subject to Trust allocation and UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) approval.

Use of AI in recruitment: We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support the initial review of applications against the essential criteria for this role. Where AI is used, it will support rather than replace human decision-making, and applications will remain subject to appropriate human review.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Application numbers

To ensure fairness and manageable shortlisting processes, some vacancies may have an application cap. This means the vacancy will close once a set number of applications have been received even if this happens before the advertised closing date.

We recommend applying as early as possible to avoid missing out. All applications received before the cap is reached will be considered equally and assessed against the person specification.