Enhanced Recovery Practitioner | Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Lancashire Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Chorley; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an Enhanced Recovery Practitioner to lead multidisciplinary teams in the orthopaedic unit, embedding Enhanced Recovery pathways pre- and post-operatively. You will support patients and families, drive service improvements and collaborate with consultants to reduce length of stay and optimise day-case arthroplasty.

The role involves coordinating the pathway, delivering education, monitoring progress and ensuring effective discharge

Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to work autonomously as well as in a team.
• Experience leading a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the enhanced recovery pathway for hip and knee arthroplasty patients.
• Deliver patient education sessions for informed consent and expectation management.
• Monitor and evaluate patient progress throughout the perioperative pathway.
• Lead the morning team brief and liaise with consultants.
• Promote early mobilisation, pain control and timely discharge.
• Support ward staff and coordinate patient flow and discharge planning.
• Be a single point of contact for patients and carers throughout their journey.

Job description

Enhanced Recovery Practitioner | Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Company: Lancashire Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

This role offers a unique opportunity to work as part of a multidisciplinary approach to implement and embed enhanced recovery within the orthopaedic unit. The role will require somebody with a high level of interpersonal and communication skill and the ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team. As an enhanced recoverypractitionerfor orthopaedics, you will be expected to lead themulti-disciplinary teamon the orthopaedic wards to implement enhanced recovery, in addition to supporting the patients and their families throughout the pathway bothpreoperativelyand post operatively. You will also support them post discharge and follow up these patients in clinic. Working as part of the multi-disciplinary team you will be actively encouraged to assist with service development and improve the patient experience based on emerging and best practice models of care, which is responsive to patient feedback and audit.The post holder will work collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team to promote evidence-based practice and continuous service improvement with a view to reduce length of stay and increase day-case arthroplasty

In addition, you’ll support the ward manager with a range of leadership and management responsibilities, helping to foster a positive team culture, coordinate service delivery, and ensure the smooth running of the unit. Your contribution will help drive excellence across both clinical and operational aspects of the service.

Coordinate the enhanced recovery pathway for patients undergoing hip and knee arthroplasty

• Deliver patient education sessions to support informed consent and expectation management
• Monitor and evaluate patient progress throughout the perioperative pathway
• Active involvement in the morning team brief
• Promote early mobilisation, effective pain control, and timely discharge
• Recognise and respond appropriately to clinical deterioration or complications
• Review early post op patients particularly with regard to possible complications such as wound infection
• Be a single point of contact for patients throughout their journey
• Liaise promptly with consultants

Communicate effectively with patients, relatives, and carers

• Provide clear, accessible information regarding procedures and recovery
• Liaise with members of the multidisciplinary team to ensure coordinated care

Support and guide ward staff for lower limb arthroplasty patients

• Contribute to a positive learning environment within the clinical area
• Demonstrate professional accountability and act as a role model for best practice
• Assist in the coordination of patient flow and discharge planning

We have 10000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done.

You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.

Coordinate the enhanced recovery pathway for patients undergoing hip and knee arthroplasty

• Deliver patient education sessions to support informed consent and expectation management
• Monitor and evaluate patient progress throughout the perioperative pathway
• Active involvement in the morning team brief
• Promote early mobilisation, effective pain control, and timely discharge
• Recognise and respond appropriately to clinical deterioration or complications
• Review early post op patients particularly with regard to possible complications such as wound infection
• Be a single point of contact for patients throughout their journey
• Liaise promptly with consultants

EDUCATION AND TRAINING:

• Participate in ongoing professional development and mandatory training
• Contribute to the education of staff on enhanced recovery principles
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of orthopaedic and perioperative care

Act as a role model, presenting a positive image of self, team and the organisation.

Be responsible for the delivery and co-ordination of care, through appropriate professional practice, delegation and supervision of duties carried out by junior staff.

This advert closes on Wednesday 11 Nov 2026

Lancashire Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust