Theatre Practitioner Orthopaedic Scrub - Huntingdon

The Methodist Church in Britain; Huntingdon; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Hinchingbrooke Hospital, part of the North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust, is seeking a scrub practitioner for the orthopaedic team. The role is open to registered nurses and operating department practitioners and involves scrub work across a hospital with twelve theatres, covering emergency surgery to ophthalmology and gynaecology.

Orthopaedic experience is essential and the post suits someone keen to grow perioperative skills.

Qualifications

• Registered nurse or operating department practitioner qualification
• NMC registration as a registered nurse, or HCPC registration as an operating department practitioner
• Orthopaedic experience
• Able to cope with change
• Effective team working in a theatre setting

Responsibilities

• Scrub for surgery across the theatre
• Provide safe, high-quality, evidence-based perioperative care
• Work within a diverse team and support colleagues to deliver care
• Inspire others and embrace change
• Build on existing theatre knowledge and skills

Skills

Orthopaedic experience

Coping with change

Team player

CPD

Lifelong learning

Risk awareness

Pre-operative care

Scrub skills

Pressure management

Communication

Job description

This scrub practitioner post sits in the orthopaedic team at Hinchingbrooke Hospital, part of North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust, and is open to registered nurses and operating department practitioners. The work is scrub practice across a hospital with twelve theatres, covering specialities from emergency surgery to ophthalmology and gynaecology. Orthopaedic experience is essential, and the role suits someone keen to build on their theatre skills in evidence-based perioperative care. Priority goes to colleagues at risk through the Trust's redeployment process.

What the job involves

• Scrub for surgery across the hospital's theatre specialities
• Provide safe, high-quality, clinically effective and evidence-based care in the perioperative environment
• Work within a diverse team and support colleagues to deliver care
• Inspire others and embrace change
• Build on existing theatre knowledge and skills

What’s required

Qualifications

• Registered nurse or operating department practitioner qualification

Registration & licences

• NMC registration as a registered nurse, or HCPC registration as an operating department practitioner

Experience

• Orthopaedic experience
• Coping well with change
• Working effectively as a team member

Skills & knowledge

• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Commitment to lifelong learning
• Awareness of risk management
• Awareness of patients' pre-operative needs
• Competence in a range of scrub clinical skills
• Working under pressure in adverse situations

Other

• IT skills
• Good verbal and written communication
• Good customer care skills
• Identifying problems, reporting faults and recommending solutions

Nice to have

• Mentorship or equivalent
• Assessing qualification for NVQ students (D32/33 or A1 award)
• 176, 183 or N33 or another perioperative care qualification
• Training and assessing ability (mentorship, 998 or 730)
• Ability to interpret data and audit information
• Awareness of broader issues within healthcare and the NHS

What’s offered

• Robust induction programme for new starters within theatres
• Support for ongoing professional development