Theatre Practitioner - Recovery

HCA Healthcare UK; Wilmslow; On-site; GBP 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking healthcare provider as a Theatre Recovery Practitioner in Wilmslow. This role offers a unique opportunity to work alongside expert consultants and nurses in a friendly operating theatre team. You'll be responsible for ensuring high standards of patient care and supporting colleagues in their professional development. Enjoy a competitive salary, flexible benefits, and a supportive work culture that prioritizes your wellbeing and career progression. If you're passionate about making a difference in healthcare, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Private Healthcare Insurance

Private pension contribution

Season Ticket Loan

Cycle to Work scheme

Group Life Assurance

Critical illness cover

Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay

Corporate staff discount

Flexible health benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in theatre recovery essential within a UK Hospital.
• NMC or HCPC registration is required.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with professional and national standards.
• Provide clinical leadership and evaluate patient care.

Skills

Theatre recovery experience

NMC or HCPC registration

Good computer skills

Teamwork

Education

Degree educated

Job description

Theatre Practitioner - Recovery

The Wilmslow Hospital, 52-55 Alderley Road, Wilmslow SK9 1NY

Hours: 37.5 hours per week Monday – Saturday. 4 shifts per week

Shifts: Starts times of 07:30 and 08:00

Salary: Up to £35,000 per year + 4 % shift allowance

For a limited time, we are also offering a £5,000 golden hello to any successful applicants for this role who apply directly to HCA Healthcare UK.

We are looking to recruit an experienced and committed Theatre Recovery Practitioner to join our friendly operating theatre team at The Wilmslow Hospital. You will be working withhighly experienced expert consultants and nurses. The Hospital has recently expanded its services from day stay surgeries to include overnight stays.

What you will do:

• To ensure that professional and national standards are met in accordance to the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC), Health Professions Council (HPC) and HCA’s Code of Conduct.
• To provide clinical leadership and support colleagues to plan, monitor and evaluate skilled and appropriate care for patients undergoing different forms of surgery to ensure the provision of evidence-based care.
• Prepare the recovery room according to the individual needs of the patient and consultant.
• The post holder must act as a role model in providing specialist knowledge within the recovery area.
• To work as part of a team supporting and developing colleagues by mentoring and assessing their skills.
  

What you will bring:

• NMC or HCPC registration
• Degree educated
• Theatre recovery experience essential within a UK Hospital
• Good computer skills
• Ability to work as part of a team
• A second skill (Anaesthetics or Scrub) is desirable but not essential

Why HCA UK?

Originally founded over 50 years ago by Dr Thomas Frist, HCA has gone on to become one of the world’s leading healthcare providers. In the UK, we’re one of the largest providers of privately funded healthcare and have invested over £500 million in the latest treatments, technology, techniques, medication and facilities. Being part of a large multisite, established healthcare group we can offer you unrivalled opportunities for career progression through internal and external courses, as well as working conditions that prioritise both your mental and physical wellbeing.

We believe that by caring for our employees, we empower them to provide exceptional care for our patients. That’s why we offer a host of flexible benefits that reflect the invaluable contribution they make every day.As a Theatre Recovery Practitioner at The Wilmslow Hospital, you’ll be eligible for:

• 25 days holiday each year (plus bank holidays) increasing with service, with option to buy or sell leave to suit you
• Private Healthcare Insurance for treatment at our leading hospitals
• Private pension contribution which increases with length of service
• Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work scheme
• Group Life Assurance from day one
• Critical illness cover
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay
• Corporate staff discount for all facilities including Maternity packages at The Portland
• Comprehensive range of flexible health, protection and lifestyle benefits to suit you
• Discounts with over 800 major retailers

Culture and values

At HCA UK we believe exceptional care starts with our people. We celebrate the unique perspectives and different experiences each of us bring as we know that when you feel seen, heard and supported you can be at your best for our patients, and each other.

Our mission is simple, above all else we’re committed to the care and improvement of human life, a clear statement that extends to both our patients and colleagues. To achieve this, we live and breathe four core values:

• Unique and Individual : We recognise and value everyone as unique and individual

• Kindness and compassion: We treat people with kindness and compassion

• Honesty, integrity and fairness: - We act with absolute honesty, integrity and fairness

• Loyalty, respect and dignity: We trust and treat one another as valued members of the HCA UK family with loyalty, respect and dignity

Reasonable adjustments

We believe everyone should feel comfortable to bring their full self to work and be afforded the same opportunities. As a Disability Confident committed organisation, we’re happy to discuss flexible working arrangements to suit your needs as well as offer reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, and in the workplace, to anyone that needs them.

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