Theatre ODP: Orthopaedic Surgery & Mentorship

The Methodist Church in Britain; Oswestry, West Midlands; Remote; GBP 18,000 - 28,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Staff benefits package

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Oswestry is seeking a part-time Theatre Unit nurse to lead their own theatre list. The post involves managing equipment, drugs, and patient care within a multidisciplinary team, with rotations across anaesthetics, scrub and recovery and some out-of-hours cover.

The candidate will need NMC registration as a nurse or HCPC registration as an operating department practitioner and must be able to work independently in theatre

Qualifications

• Recognised anaesthetic qualification (nurse route).
• NMC registration as a nurse, or HCPC registration as an operating department practitioner.
• Able to work unsupervised in an anaesthetic room, theatre or surgical setting, including on-call responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Provide safe, quality patient care within the unit under Trust and unit policy.
• Run your own theatre list safely, working with the multidisciplinary team.
• Assess patients and make complex decisions, including emergencies and out-of-hours surgery.
• Support and reassure patients and relatives through local and spinal anaesthesia, including difficult information.
• Ensure health and safety of staff, patients and visitors; report incidents and near misses.
• Manage equipment; report faults, document safe use and ensure economical use of supplies.
• Order, store, dispense and record drugs in line with Trust policy.
• Support the Co-ordinator in managing the unit, including list changes with Recovery.
• Develop clinical skills of new staff as mentor/preceptor and act as a link practitioner and role model.
• Take part in audits, clinical trials and service improvements, and help develop unit policies.
• Complete mandatory annual training and meet NMC, HCPC and CPD requirements.
• Retrieve and input patient information on Trust IT systems (EPR, PAS, TIMS, TIS, Fingerprint).

Skills

Teamwork

Communication

Manual dexterity

IT skills

Time management

Interpersonal skills

Job description

Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Oswestry is seeking a part-time Theatre Unit nurse to lead their own theatre list. The post involves managing equipment, drugs, and patient care within a multidisciplinary team, with rotations across anaesthetics, scrub and recovery and some out-of-hours cover.

The candidate will need NMC registration as a nurse or HCPC registration as an operating department practitioner and must be able to work independently in theatre