Trainee Advanced Scrub Practitioner

Northumbria Group.; North Shields; Remote; GBP 33,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

Northumbria Group seeks a Trainee Advanced Surgical Practitioner to assist Consultants and Specialist Registrars in Orthopaedic, Elective and Trauma cases, with responsibilities across Trust sites including Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital and North Tyneside General Hospital. Base site is North Tyneside General Hospital.

The role operates under Agenda for Change Annex 20 and offers development into higher pay bands upon competency completion, subject to set criteria.

Qualifications

• Evidence of ongoing practice development
• Mentorship Qualification or relevant equivalent qualification (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18 month period)
• Recognised teaching qualification
• Recognised post graduate theatre/anaesthetic qualification
• Diploma/degree in nursing/or health related topic

Responsibilities

• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care under the direction of the senior nurse/SODP.
• Assist in the provision of nursing care and maintain high clinical standards.
• Exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
• Develop over time and contribute to the management of a clinical area and take charge in the absence of Senior Nurse/ODP.
• Role model compassionate and inclusive leadership to shape a collective leadership culture within the trust.

Skills

Nursing care

Clinical leadership

Mentorship

Team collaboration

Education

NMC registration

Mentorship qualification

Post-graduate theatre/anaesthetic qualification

Diploma/degree in nursing or health-related topic

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:

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.

Main duties of the job

• 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.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care under the direction of the senior nurse/SODP.
• To assist in the provision of nursing care and maintain high clinical standards.
• To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
• Develop over time and contribute to the management of a clinical area and take charge in the absence of Senior Nurse/ODP.
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

Qualifications

• Evidence of ongoing practice development
• Registered Mentor. Mentorship Qualification or relevant equivalent qualification (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18 month period).
• Recognised teaching qualification
• Recognised post graduate theatre/anaesthetic qualification
• Diploma/degree in nursing/or health related topic

Experience and knowledge

• Evidence of ongoing practice development

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Graham Dickinson Job title Trust Lead Advanced Scrub Practitioners Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 07870575445 Additional information: Trainee Advanced Scrub Practitioner for Orthopaedic Surgery

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