Theatre Nurse / Operating Department Practitioner

Northumbria Healthcare Nhs Foundation Trust; Corbridge; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS organization as an Operating Department Practitioner or Registered Nurse, dedicated to delivering high-quality patient care in a supportive environment. This role offers the chance to work within a top-performing trust, where staff well-being is prioritized alongside patient experience. You'll be part of a dynamic team at Hexham General Hospital, contributing to innovative healthcare solutions while enjoying a range of benefits, including flexible working opportunities and professional development. This position is perfect for motivated individuals eager to make a difference in the healthcare sector.

Benefits

Extensive staff health and well-being programme

Flexible working opportunities

Generous annual leave

Pension scheme

Access to lease car scheme

Professional development training programmes

On-site nursery places

Savings scheme via salary sacrifice

Qualifications

• 1st Level live NMC Registered General Nurse or Operating Department Practitioner qualification.
• Registered Mentor with evidence of ongoing practice development.

Responsibilities

• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care under supervision.
• Assist in the provision of nursing care and maintain high clinical standards.
• Supervise junior staff and provide on-call cover as needed.

Skills

Nursing Care

Anaesthesia

Patient Assessment

Clinical Standards Maintenance

Education

NMC Registered General Nurse

Operating Department Practitioner Qualification

Mentorship Qualification

Job description

EmployerNorthumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustEmployer typeNHSSiteHexham General HospitalTownHexhamSalary£29,970 - £36,483 per annumSalary periodYearlyClosing06/04/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Band 5

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). 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 and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you

Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub

Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups

A range of flexible working opportunities

Generous annual leave and pension scheme

Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)

Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes

On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice

Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

Job overview

We are looking to recruit an anaesthetically trained Operating Department Practitioner/ Registered Nurse to join our anaesthetic team within the elective theatre department at Hexham General Hospital.

The successful candidate should be motivated and enthusiastic and committed to delivering safe, high-quality care.

Main duties of the job

To assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care under the direction of the senior nurse/SODP .

To assist in the provision of nursing care and maintain high clinical standards.

To exercise accountability as set out in the HCPC/NMC Codes of Professional Conduct.

Develop over time and contribute to the management of a clinical area and take charge in the absence of Senior Nurse/ODP.

Supervision of junior members of staff, students and visitors. To provide nursing care to a caseload of patients and to provide verbal and written handovers to nursing colleagues and the multi disciplinary team To provide on call cover as required to meet the needs of the service May be required to work on other sites across the Trust

Full time or part time hours may be considered.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care under the direction of the senior nurse/SODP .

To assist in the provision of nursing care and maintain high clinical standards.

To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.

Develop over time and contribute to the management of a clinical area and take charge in the absence of Senior Nurse/ODP

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

1st Level live NMC Registered General Nurse or Operating Department Practitioner qualification

Registered Mentor. Mentorship Qualification or relevant equivalent qualification (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18 month period)

Evidence of ongoing practice development

Desirable criteria

Recognised teaching qualification

Post Registration qualification in speciality

Diploma/degree in nursing/or health related topic

Recognised post graduate theatre/anaesthetic qualification

Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.

Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.

Make sure to read the ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!

Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

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.