Theatre Practitioner - ODP, Recovery or Scrub Practitioner

Isle of Wight NHS Trust; Carisbrooke; Sur place; GBP 32 000 - 39 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust invites applications for a Theatre Practitioner (Band 5) at St Mary’s Hospital, Newport. This permanent role involves working across perioperative services to support elective and emergency surgery within a four-theatre environment.

The post requires registered practitioners with NMC or HCPC, flexible hours (evenings, weekends, night duty, and on-call) and a commitment to high-quality patient care within a supportive multidisciplinary team.

Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work closely within a multidisciplinary team.
• Ability to provide high standard perioperative care across multiple disciplines.
• Adaptability to flexible theatre duties including nights, weekends and on-call.

Responsabilités

• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual patient care in the perioperative pathway.
• Maintain a safe environment in line with organisational standards.
• Provide clinical leadership within the Theatre department in collaboration with the senior team.
• Maintain patient comfort, dignity and privacy at all times.
• Demonstrate knowledge across theatre specialties.
• Promote a positive learning environment for team members.
• Ensure cleanliness of the environment to meet standards.

Connaissances

Interpersonal skills

Teamwork

Description du poste

Main area Theatre Practitioner Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Includes weekends, nights and on-call duties) Job ref 470-8263093-TSW-1

Employer Isle of Wight NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site St Mary's Hospital Town Newport, Isle of Wight Salary £32,073 - £39,043 pro rata, per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 30/10/2026 23:59

Theatre Practitioner - ODP, Recovery or Scrub Practitioner

Band 5

Job overview

We are recruiting for a Theatre Practitioner to our multi-disciplinary team who wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS. This is an exciting opportunity to work within perioperative care, we are seeking enthusiastic and highly motivated Theatre Nurses and Operating Department Practitioners with suitable knowledge, skills and experience registered with the NMC or HCPC. The role is based within the small and friendly theatre team based at St Mary's Hospital, Newport

You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards "great people, great place ".

Our service consists of 4 Main theatres, 2 Day surgery theatres, 1 Ophthalmology theatre and 1 Maternity theatre. We can provide experience in a number of surgical specialities including:

Due to our unique, collaborative and innovative ways of working you will have opportunity to develop across the different disciplines within perioperative practice to include Post anaesthetic care, Scrub and, (dependant on qualifications) Anaesthetic roles.

Previous applicants need not apply

Main duties of the job

We are looking for individuals with excellent interpersonal skills who can demonstrate their ability to work closely within the team to ensure a high standard of care is delivered to every patient in our departments. You will be expected to partake in all aspects of the clinical care within the perioperative care pathway and work as part of a multidisciplinary team delivering care to patients undergoing both elective and emergency surgery.

The role is full time, you will need to have a flexible approach to service provision which will involve evenings, weekends night duty and on-calls. A successful applicant must be adaptable to meet the demands of our busy department and to contribute to our 247/ 365 service.

The successful applicant will mainly be based with the Main theatres team, although flexibility across all theatres will be required, and will be rostered to work a mix of duties including weekends, on-call and dependant on experience/role, Nights.

This post offers many opportunities through on-going education and development that is supported by our own Practice Development Lead.

Working for our organisation

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust serves a population of approximately 150,000 residents, making the services we offer variable and personalised with a flexible approach to our service users.

Working for our Trust brings a variety of benefits, including an on-site day nursery, cycle-to-work scheme, discounts at local businesses and gyms, and the opportunity to hire the Trust's beach hut in Ryde. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

The isle of Wight is a unique and stunning gem of the south coast off England, a short ferry journey from Portsmouth and Southampton, with journey times taking from as little as 10 minutes. London can be reached in 90 minutes by rail from Southampton or Portsmouth. The Island offers an amazing coast line with beautiful countryside, year round events, festivals and award winning attractions.

Our 2024-2029 'Working Together, Improving Together' strategy sets out our objectives for the next 5 years, setting the framework for our collaboration to deliver our vision of working together to deliver excellence in care for our patients and communities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a Theatre practitioner your role is to ensure the safe passage of every patient through their perioperative journey.

·Responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of individual patient care.

·To maintain a safe environment in accordance with the organisational standards.

·To provide effective clinical leadership within the Theatre department, acknowledging own limitations, in collaboration with the senior Theatre team.

·Maintain the comfort, dignity and privacy of patients at all times.

·Demonstrate a broad knowledge of a range of theatre specialities.

·Promote a positive learning environment for all team members.

·Be responsible in maintaining the cleanliness of the Environment to comply with the standards of