Senior Theatre Practitioner

Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust; Wolverhampton; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust invites applications for a Senior Theatre Practitioner to support the perioperative team in scrub, anaesthetic and recovery roles within the Head and Neck Operating Theatres. This is an excellent opportunity to apply your advanced skills in a busy environment and contribute to patient care excellence.

You will act as a team leader, mentoring junior staff and coordinating theatre lists to ensure the safe organisation of theatre, while upholding infection control

Qualifications

• Head and Neck theatre experience
• Leadership and mentoring skills

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate theatre lists, mentoring junior staff.
• Provide scrub, anaesthetic and recovery support as a senior practitioner.
• Uphold infection control and patient safety standards.

Skills

Head and Neck theatre experience

Team leadership

Job description

As a senior theatre practitioner, you will support the perioperative team in delivering safe and effective patient care during scrub, anaesthetic, and recovery roles. You will act as a team leader, mentoring junior staff and coordinating theatre lists to ensure the safe organisation of theatre. You will contribute to quality improvement initiatives and uphold infection control and patient safety standards. You will work closely with the theatre manager to provide a seamless link between senior colleagues and the wider theatre team.

We are seeking a skilled and passionate Senior Theatre Practitioner to join our busy Head and Neck Operating Theatres team at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust. This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated registered nurse or ODP with Head and Neck theatre experience to make a real impact in delivering high-quality patient care.

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as "Good" by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.