Scrub Practitioner — Perioperative Cancer Care Lead

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust; Chelsea (MA); On-site; USD 50,000 - 61,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Disability Confident employer scheme

Job summary

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust in Chelsea is seeking a motivated Scrub Practitioner (Band 5) to join our theatre team. You will carry out nursing care for patients, perform scrub and circulation duties, and support quality standards and patient safety in a high-demand cancer theatre environment.

We welcome experienced scrub nurses or scrub ODPs who can demonstrate leadership, participate in decontamination and instrument sterilisation, and contribute to multidisciplinary care with a

Qualifications

• To carry out in a responsible and efficient way, the nursing care for patients which have been drawn up in conjunction with the co-ordinator of the shift.
• As a member of the theatre team to perform all the tasks of a registered theatre nurse/ODP including resuscitation, scrub and circulation following all checks and procedures as laid down in National and Trust theatre policy.
• The post holder is expected to carry out all the relevant forms of care without direct supervision and is required to demonstrate procedures, supervise underqualified staff whilst maintaining a safe working environment.
• To be responsible for the safe use of complex scrub equipment (diathermy, laparoscopic etc).
• To demonstrate sound knowledge base of safe decontamination processes and practices, particularly relating to the safe decontamination of flexible scopes and sterilisation of instruments.
• Support senior staff and multidisciplinary team members in monitoring and maintaining excellent clinical standards of clinical practice and staff development as part of the theatre team.
• Provide high quality, individualised, evidence-based care to patients/clients and relatives/carers in collaboration with the multi-professional team, in line with the local and national targets.

Responsibilities

• To complete the first level assessment of the patient's needs and document these on the care plan, planning, delivering and evaluating programmes of care from admission through to discharge/transfer.
• To gain an understanding of the physiological, psycho-social, spiritual and cultural needs of the patients with cancer and their families. To develop a positive, realistic and supportive attitude to ensure that the needs of the patient and family are met.
• Using the information obtained from nursing history assessments and from subsequent observations, to identify the patient's individual nursing problems and needs, and to plan and implement care.
• To set goals for the resolution of each of the identified nursing problems, and to help the patient achieve these goals through appropriate care planning.
• To document and evaluate care given and discuss progress, condition and treatment with colleagues, alerting the Sister/Charge Nurse of the patients’ changing health care needs.
• To assist with teaching patients in preparation for investigations, treatment and home care.
• To be aware of the side effects of any treatment in progress, and adopt a problem-solving approach to minimise the potentially adverse reactions.

Job description

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust in Chelsea is seeking a motivated Scrub Practitioner (Band 5) to join our theatre team. You will carry out nursing care for patients, perform scrub and circulation duties, and support quality standards and patient safety in a high-demand cancer theatre environment.

We welcome experienced scrub nurses or scrub ODPs who can demonstrate leadership, participate in decontamination and instrument sterilisation, and contribute to multidisciplinary care with a