Recovery

Buckinghamshire Healthcare Nhs Trust; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PPE provided

Flu vaccinations encouraged

Job summary

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking enthusiastic nurses to join the Recovery team, focusing on perioperative care and patient experience. The role involves supporting a diverse range of specialties and contributing to high standards of care across site teams in High Wycombe.

The successful candidate will be a registered nurse with surgical experience, capable of working independently and within a team, and willing to undertake specialist training to enhance perioperative practice.

Qualifications

• Evidence of excellent interpersonal skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Complaints procedure training and ability to communicate with patients and carers.

Responsibilities

• Assess care needs and develop/evaluate care programmes for theatre patients.
• Provide highly skilled assistance in the operating department and related areas as part of the theatre team.
• Teach, supervise and motivate qualified and student staff within the perioperative setting.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

English communication

Complaints handling

Education

RGN/ODP registration

NMC/HPC registration

Job description

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity within the Recovery team for enthusiastic and dynamic nurses wanting to develop their critical thinking skills and advanced nursing skills in the provision of excellent perioperative care and patient experience.

Recovery Units consist of four areas which cover a full variety of specialities including specialities such as plastics, spinal surgery, paediatrics, gynaecology, orthopaedic and trauma.

The post holder will be a registered nurse with previous surgical nursing experience. Be a good communicator and able to work as part of a team and on their own initiative. Be willing to undertake specialist training. The successful candidate will work as part of a team who cover across site working with our recovery team in High Wycombe. We have a tradition of excellence and our vision is simple, to provide a gold standard in peri-operative practice, and invest in you the people who deliver care. We are seeking enthusiastic and committed individuals to join our team.

Main duties of the job

The post holder is responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development and/or implementation and evaluation of programmes of care for patients undergoing theatre procedures.

To provide highly skilled assistance in all areas of the operating department and associated areas, and act as a professional member of the theatre team. He/she is expected to carry out all relevant forms of care, maintaining a highly skilled standard of nursing care within the framework of Trust policies.

The post holder will teach, supervise and motivate qualified and unqualified staff including basic and/or post basic students (Nurses and Operating Department Practitioners), back to nursing students and health care assistants.

Working for our organisation

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What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

• As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
• We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
• We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

Why work for us?

• We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
• As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
• Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.

What do we stand for?

• Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
• Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
• Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.

Person specification

Experience

Desirable criteria

• Experience in scrub, recovery or anaesthetics.

Skills, Abilities and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Evidence of excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• Complaints procedure training
• Ability to communicate with patients (and their relatives or carers) who may have some a range of complex health care issues, and a variety of sensory/communication/ physical /mental health /language needs

Desirable criteria

• Working knowledge of the NHS and structures/procedures
• Sound knowledge of theatre practice and perioperative Issues
• IT Skills

Education, Qualifications and Training

Essential criteria

• RGN / or ODP with appropriate registration
• NMC or HPC registration

Desirable criteria

• MSPP/ENB 998

PPE requirements:

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.

Flu vaccinations

Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.

Application deadline:

This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight, however if we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before the advertised date.

Application information:

If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records (ESR) system.

Shortlisting:

The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.

Travel expenses:

It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interviews will not be reimbursed.

Smoking:

All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.

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