Operating Department Practitioner

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust; Colchester; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS organization in the UK is looking for an enthusiastic Operating Department Practitioner to join their caring team. The role involves providing high-quality peri-operative patient care within a multi-disciplinary team. Flexible shift work is required. The organization emphasizes staff development and offers various training opportunities along with generous benefits, including a pension scheme and NHS discounts.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

Flexible working options

Staff Health and Wellbeing programmes

NHS discounts

Responsibilities

• Provide clinically effective, high quality, individualized peri-operative patient care.
• Promote a safe working environment that encourages learning.
• Contribute to the continuing development of peri-operative and professional practice.
• Support the integration of clinical governance in patient care delivery.
• Demonstrate skills needed to achieve departmental programmes and competencies.

Job description

Overview

Colchester Hospital has an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic Operating Department Practitioner to join our caring, supportive, and compassionate team. This post is ideal if you are passionate about your profession and committed to delivering high-quality patient focused care. Our theatre suites comprise 17 theatres, including a hybrid vascular theatre, three robotic systems for abdominal & pelvic surgery, and three laparoscopic theatres. You will receive excellent in-house training to support all areas of working across Anaesthetics. A flexible approach to working shifts is required.

Responsibilities

• To provide clinically effective, high quality, individualised peri-operative patient care working within the multi-disciplinary team.
• To promote a safe and attractive working environment that encourages learning.
• To contribute to the continuing development of peri-operative and professional practice ensuring practice is evidence based.
• To support the integration of clinical governance into all aspects of patient care delivery.
• To demonstrate the skills and knowledge required to achieve the learning outcomes of departmental programmes and competencies.

About ESNEFT

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients\' own homes. We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff. We pride ourselves on supporting our staff.

Benefits and development

• A wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
• Generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata).
• Access to a range of NHS discounts.
• Staff Health and Wellbeing programmes and related services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we focus on improving processes and removing delays for staff and patients. We are investing in this commitment with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic to bring a world-class EPR system to ESNEFT.