Anaesthetic Practitioner

Job overview

Are you an Operating Department Practitioner or Registered Nurse with an anaesthetic qualification looking for a new challenge?

At Bristol NHS Foundation Trust we currently have 34 theatres in the Brunel Building, with a further 4 theatres in the new Bristol Surgical Centre. The theatres are supported by 84 medirooms and 4 traditional PACU facilities. We are a Major Trauma Centre, covering a range of specialties including Plastics & Breast, Urology, General, Gynaecology & Obstetrics, Metabolic & GI, Elective Orthopaedic, Neuro & Spinal, Vascular, Interventional Radiology, Emergency & Trauma.

We are a well-established team with excellent support structures to facilitate your career progression.

We can offer:

• Online interviews
• Full time or part time hours
• Engagement from the Perioperative Education Team
• Clinical support
• Ongoing education and training from our Practice Facilitators
• Wellbeing support

Suitable candidates need to be either Newly Qualified ODPs, experienced Registered ODP or Registered Nurses with a post basic Anaesthetic Nursing qualification.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will:

• Participate in all aspects of clinical operating department work, and provide a high standard of patient care and safety in accordance with the North Bristol NHS Trust philosophy and objectives, policies and legal requirements
• Deputise for the Team Leader when required/experience allows
• Be involved in the assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care and work within a flexible team structure involving a multi- disciplinary team

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a full overview of the Job Description and Person Specification, please refer to the PDF documents attached as an additional documents to this advert.

• Be competent in all aspects of anaesthetic technique and procedures.
• Work as a skilled member of the perioperative team, and be responsible for the assessment of care given to patients within the operating theatre and other areas where an anaesthetic service is required.
• Run theatre lists both efficiently and competently following policies and procedures.
• Take responsibility in ensuring the safe, effective and efficient management of allocated resources within anaesthetics, including assisting with the planning of daily allocation of team members.
• Be responsible for the care and maintenance of all anaesthetic equipment and consumable goods within your designated area. This responsibility will extend to all areas of the anaesthetic service and to inform the appropriate person of any stock/equipment requirements.
• Take appropriate action in regards to faulty equipment as per Trust policy and participate in the ordering and training of new equipment
• Ensure that the department is at all times clean and organised with sufficient supplies and equipment which are correctly cleaned, in working order and correctly stored.
• Supervise the work of junior and unqualified colleagues in the assessment of patients and advise appropriately, providing specialist knowledge in assessing and interpreting acute and other patients conditions.
• Take responsibility for personal and professional development, to be responsible for attending mandatory training sessions and to ensure that all policies and procedures are adhered to.
• Support Theatre Manager in developing and reviewing policies and standards for the safe use of equipment and substances hazardous to health in the department
• Have an understanding of scrub and circulating roles and to understand the responsibilities in these roles.

Applicant requirements

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.