HPB/Vascular Theatre Practitioner

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Operating Theatre Department to recruit a Theatre Practitioner to join our fantastic HPB and Vascular Team based at the QMC and NCH Campus. You should be a highly motivated, innovative and progressive individual committed to the development of yourself, your team and our changing  services.

Our expectations are to deliver a high standard of service with patient safety and quality as our main priority. You should be able to demonstrate effective team working and work to the highest standards of evidence based practice.

We practice multi-skilling and are looking to recruit a dynamic Practitioner who wishes to develop their practice in anaesthetic and surgical scrub support. Anaesthetic skills are desirable - or a willingness to undertake anaesthetic training.

You should have a flexible attitude to work and be able to work as part of a multidisciplinary team.

All persons appointed to the post are required to hold registration with their appropriate professional regulatory body and to comply with their professional code of conduct. Evidence of on-going registration will be required.

Main duties of the job

You will be joining a pro-active, dynamic team of Nurses, ODPs, TAPs, TSWs and SFAs who offer the best standards of perioperative care for our HPB and Vascular patients. Every day is different, with rewarding experiences and challenges alike. We pride ourselves on team work, learning and being forward thinking.

NUH offers fantastic support to a diverse range of students and learners and therefore the successful applicant should either hold or be willing to work towards a level three mentorship qualification.

The successful applicant will require to work 37.5hr flexibly across the HPB and Vascular Specialities. We work cross-campus for our dynamic and revolutionary Robotic Surgery Service. We also have weekend working with an on-call attachment for the emergency and paediatric specialities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and person specification attached to the advert for the full details of the vacancy.