Senior Theatres Practitioner (Scrub) for Lewisham Surgical Centre

LEWISHAM AND GREENWICH NHS TRUST; London; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust as a Senior Theatres Practitioner (Scrub) in a new state-of-the-art Surgical Centre. This role demands clinical expertise in ENT, leadership abilities, and a commitment to delivering exceptional patient care in a fast-paced environment. Contribute to the future of healthcare in South East London while benefitting from diverse staff networks and developmental opportunities.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years' experience working in theatres at Band 5 level required.
• Solid ENT clinical expertise valued.
• Willingness to undertake mentorship training is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-standard evidence-based care to patients.
• Assist in training and development of junior staff.
• Manage and co-ordinate the clinical area in absence of Theatre Co-ordinator.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Leadership skills

Communication skills

Problem solving

Education

Qualified ODP with HCPC registration or Qualified Nurse with NMC registration

Mentorship course

Degree level qualification

Job description

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Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Job overview

To view full details of the forth coming Lewisham Surgical Centre, please click the link below: Work with us at Lewisham Surgical Centre - 1

This is your opportunity to be part of a theatres surgical centre team to truly shape and contribute to the future of healthcare in South East London by taking on this crucial role as Senior Theatres Practitioner (Scrub) the forthcoming Lewisham Surgical Centre (LSC) for Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust (LGT).

The LSC, currently under construction at the heart of University Hospital Lewisham, is set to be a cutting edge facility, serving all of south east London and running a high volume of Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) day case procedures.

ENT procedures currently have one of the largest waiting lists of any specialty in the country. As such, this will be a fast-paced, highly rewarding role based around two brand-new theatres running six days per week, 10 hours per day, delivering six all-day lists, 48 weeks per year. The centre would be 12 all days extended lists as two theatres.

So who are we looking for?

The successful applicant will have solid ENT clinical expertise and you will thrive on working in such a fast-paced environment - so if you feel that this is a core part of your skillset but you don't quite have expert-level ENT experience, we would encourage you to apply.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for providing a high standard of evidence-based care to patients throughout their operative journey, within the guidelines of the Trust, the HCPC and the NMC.

The post holder will provide leadership, guidance and support to all nursing staff within the clinical area, and will assist with the training and development of junior staff and students.

The post holder will take responsibility for the management and co-ordination of the clinical area in conjunction with and in the absence of the Theatre Co-ordinator.

Working for our organisation

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a member of the team, participates in establishing a positive working environment in which patients receive a high standard of care delivery

Personally deliver a high standard of care to patients and participate in assessing, planning and evaluation of individualised patient care

Act as team leader where required and clinical role model at all times.

Ensure that all patients are cared for in a safe environment and maintains the safety and well-being of patients, staff and visitors in line with Health and Safety guidelines

Personally acts within and ensures adherence to all Trust and Departmental policies and procedures

Participates in the care, custody and administration of medicines in accordance with Trust and local policy

Assist the Theatre and Recovery Co-ordinator in providing advice, guidance, support and professional leadership for all clinical staff in the theatre department.

Assist in developing the department philosophy and framework of care in line with unit/organisational and beliefs/values

Ensure the provision of advice, support and health information to patients and their carers in order to promote a health-based service.

Ensure workload of colleagues does not jeopardise safe standards of practice and initiate action if necessary.

Participate in the daily checking and maintenance of essential equipment

Transports/manages people and/or items such as equipment or specimens safely and to time consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.

Maintain accurate and legible records of all clinical and legal documentation to include accident / incident reporting, with regard to HCPC/NMC statutory and Trust polices.

Ensures all aspects of clinical care including interventions and investigations are performed, assessed and reported upon in a timely fashion and in a manner consistent with legislation, policy and procedures.

Liaise with all members of the multi-professional team to ensure that care is assessed, planned, delivered and evaluated within a multi-professional framework, in the interests of the patient, and that care is communicated to all team members.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Qualified ODP with HCPC registration or Qualified Nurse with NMC registration and relevant anaesthetic course
• Mentorship course or willingness to undertake training within three months of appointment

Desirable criteria

• Degree level qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Minimum 2 years' experience working in theatres at Band 5 level

Desirable criteria

• Experience working at Band 6 level

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
• Leadership skills
• Ability to plan, problem solve and prioritise

Desirable criteria

• Experience of audit and research based practice
• Ability to influence and negotiate with others

personal Qualities

Essential criteria

• Reliable and flexible
• Enthusiastic and self-motivated
• Able to work full 24/7 shift patterns (days, nights and weekends) according to service needs

Desirable criteria

• Ability to motivate team to drive productivity

We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.

As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Job Description (PDF, 776.2KB)
• Working at LGT (PDF, 4.2MB)