Trainee Advanced Scrub Practitioner

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; North Boarhunt; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is inviting applications for a Trainee Advanced Scrub Practitioner to support Consultants and Specialist Registrars across Orthopaedic, Elective and Trauma procedures, including General Surgery.

The post is base at North Tyneside General Hospital with potential to work across Trust sites. Training under Annex 20 allows progression on completion of competencies within the same pay band.

Responsibilities

• Supervision of junior members of staff, students and visitors.
• To provide nursing care to a caseload of patients and to provide verbal and written handovers to nursing colleagues and the multi disciplinary team.
• To provide on call cover as required to meet the needs of the service.
• May be required to work on other sites across the Trust.

Job description

We are looking for an enthusiastic Trainee Advanced Surgical Practitioner to join the team assisting a team of Consultants and Specialist Registrars across a range of Orthopaedic, Elective and Trauma procedures. As well as General Surgery procedures.

This position may require Trust wide working across our Trust sites including Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, Hexham General Hospital, Wansbeck General Hospital and North Tyneside General Hospital.

Please note - North Tyneside General Hospital will be the base site for this post.

This post falls within the provisions of Agenda for Change Annex 20 - Development of Professional Roles, whereby upon completion of an agreed set of competencies you may move onto the next pay band without the need for an application for a post at a higher level.

Annex 20 Applies

This post falls within the provisions of Agenda for Change Annex 20 - Development of Professional Roles, whereby upon completion of an agreed set of competencies you may move onto the next pay band without the need for an application for a post at a higher level.

For Further Information On Annex 20, Please See

http://www.nhsemployers.org/tchandbook/annex-16-to-20/annex-20-development-of-professional-roles

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

• Supervision of junior members of staff, students and visitors.
• To provide nursing care to a caseload of patients and to provide verbal and written handovers to nursing colleagues and the multi disciplinary team.
• To provide on call cover as required to meet the needs of the service .
• May be required to work on other sites across the Trust.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Graham Dickinson Job title: Trust Lead Advanced Scrub Practitioners Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07870575445

Trainee Advanced Scrub Practitioner for Orthopaedic Surgery