ODP / Registered Nurse

Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust; Pontefract; Sur place; GBP 28 000 - 42 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

NHS pension

Generous holiday allowance

Employee health & wellbeing services

Onsite nurseries

Childcare vouchers

Résumé du poste

Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust in Pontefract is expanding its Elective Orthopaedic Hub and seeking enthusiastic operating department practitioners or registered nurses with anaesthetic qualification. You will contribute to delivering safe, high-quality perioperative care within our newly accredited hub at Pontefract Hospital Theatres.

The role offers an exciting opportunity to join a friendly, skilled team that values collaboration, continuous improvement and patient-centred care across

Qualifications

• Operating department practitioner or registered nurse with anaesthetic qualification and experience.

Responsabilités

• Deliver high standards of patient-centred perioperative care throughout the journey.
• Provide skilled anaesthetic assistance as autonomous practitioner.
• Work as a scrub practitioner with strict aseptic technique.
• Support development of the Elective Orthopaedic Hub and ongoing service growth.

Connaissances

Anaesthetic assistance

Scrub assisting

Perioperative care

Team collaboration

Patient-centred care

Description du poste

As a theatre practitioner, you will be a valued member of our multidisciplinary team, delivering safe, compassionate and high-quality perioperative care to patients undergoing elective surgery within our newly accredited Elective Orthopaedic Hub.

• Working alongside surgeons, anaesthetists and theatre colleagues, you will play a key role in ensuring every patient receives outstanding care throughout their perioperative journey while contributing to the continued development of our expanding elective service. Your key responsibilities will include: Delivering high standards of patient-centred care throughout the perioperative journey, ensuring patients feel safe, informed and supported at every stage of their surgical experience.
• Providing skilled anaesthetic assistance as an autonomous practitioner, anticipating the needs of the anaesthetist, preparing equipment and responding effectively to changes in the patient's condition.
• Working as a scrub practitioner, ideally within elective orthopaedic surgery, maintaining strict aseptic technique, preparing specialist instrumentation and supporting the surgical team to deliver safe, efficient and high-quality care.
• Actively maintaining and developing competence in both anaesthetic and scrub practice, embracing opportunities to broaden your clinical expertise in line with service development and supporting the continued growth and resilience of the accredited Elective Orthopaedic Hub.
  Join the team that's shaping the future of elective orthopaedic surgery
• Do you want to work somewhere your skills are valued, your development is supported, and your work genuinely makes a difference? At Pontefract Hospital Theatres, we're building something exciting. As a newly accredited Elective Orthopaedic Hub within Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust, we're expanding our theatre team and are looking for enthusiastic and motivated operating department practitioners or registered nurses with anaesthetic qualification and experience to help deliver outstanding care for our patients. This is more than just another theatre role. It's an opportunity to become part of a friendly, highly skilled team where collaboration, respect and continuous improvement are at the heart of everything we do. Why choose Pontefract Hospital? Our theatres provide planned elective surgery within a calm, organised environment, allowing our teams to focus on delivering exceptional patient care without many of the pressures associated with emergency operating. As part of our multidisciplinary theatre team, you will provide safe, high-quality perioperative care across a range of elective surgical specialties, with a particular focus on our expanding orthopaedic service. You will play an important role in delivering excellent patient outcomes while supporting the continued growth of the Hub., We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work. We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust. As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers, home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more. If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.