Senior Ophthalmic Scrub Practitioner (Bank)

Nuffield Health Careers; Chichester; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 41,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday entitlement

Pension scheme

Discounted gym membership

Job summary

Nuffield Health Chichester Hospital is seeking a Senior Theatre Practitioner (ODP) to join our perioperative team on a bank, ad hoc basis. You must be HCPC registered and bring post-registration experience, with a passion for high standards in perioperative care.

You’ll lead theatre activity, prioritise patient safety, and work flexibly as part of a collaborative team across the hospital, delivering compassionate care to patients.

Qualifications

• Registered with the appropriate governing body (HCPC).
• Experience in perioperative care.
• Meticulous and detail-oriented.
• Flexible and motivated team worker.

Responsibilities

• Prioritise patient safety and report safety concerns.
• Maintain a safe environment complying with policies and procedures.
• Support governance and ensure compliance with national standards.
• Provide and lead care management, delivering compassionate patient care.
• Collaborate with clinicians to enhance patient care and service delivery.
• Take charge of a theatre, coordinate activities and lead junior staff.

Skills

HCPC registration

Perioperative care

Team leadership

Job description

Senior Theatre Practitioner (ODP)

Chichester Hospital | Nursing | Bank - Ad hoc | Part time

Up to £30.00 per hour depending on experience

Working on the bank means you are not contracted to a set number of hours per week but instead work on an ad-hoc basis to suit the needs of the business and your availability.

Wherever you’re currently working, Nuffield Health is where you’ll excel. As the UK’s largest Healthcare Charity, we can offer you a unique opportunity to feel valued, free from constraints and able to grow your career, while you’re helping us offer the highest standards of care. Transforming patient care, focusing on what matters. It starts with you

As a Senior Theatre Practitioner (ODP) at our Chichester Hospital, you’re registered with the appropriate governing body and you hold the relevant qualifications and experience, including HCPC registration. You bring a passion for high standards in perioperative care, a meticulous eye for detail and post-registration experience. You’re a focused, flexible and motivated team worker.

As a Senior Theatre Practitioner (ODP), you will:

• Prioritise patient safety, taking appropriate actions and encouraging colleagues to call out and report safety concerns.
• Promote a safe working environment for patients, visitors and staff (in full compliance with all policies and procedures)
• Support governance activity, ensuring full compliance with Nuffield Health’s Quality governance framework and national standards, e.g. CQC/HIW/HIS Regulation, fundamentals of care, professional standards and evidence-based guidelines.
• Provide and lead care management and delivery, treating patients, families, friends and representatives with kindness, dignity, respect and compassion and support them to cope emotionally with their care, treatment or condition.
• Collaborate with other clinicians within the Hospital, building strong working relationships that enhance patient care and service delivery.
• Take charge of a theatre, co-ordinating and delivering work activities and leading junior practitioners.

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. This includes holiday in line with the working time directive, access to our pension scheme and discounted gym membership at £35.00 a month.

Nuffield Health Chichester Hospital

Nuffield Health Chichester Hospital is a 30 bedded hospital within walking distance of the city centre with free onsite car parking. The hospital has two laminar flow operating theatres and two minor treatment rooms in the outpatient department. There is a small radiology department and CT/ MRI services are provided in a mobile unit. Inpatient physiotherapy is provided within the hospital whilst our outpatients attend the fitness and wellbeing centre at Chichester gate for their follow up physio and hydrotherapy treatments.

Our main speciality is orthopaedics. We also care for patients needing treatment within the specialties of gynaecology, urology, general surgery, plastic surgery, ophthalmology max fax, and pain. We provide outpatient services for dermatology, cardiology, neurology, and rheumatology.

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