Recovery Practitioner - South Theatres
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation TrustAlready thinking ahead to interview?
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Job overview
We are looking to recruit highly motivated Nurse/ODP who are passionate about the care of patients to join our recovery team in Ipswich hospital.
The role will be working in the new Post-operative Care unit (POCU) as well as the existing recovery unit.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a friendly team who are motivated in promoting the delivery of patient-centred, clinically effective and dynamic service to our patients.
Do you possess excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to work confidently and collaboratively across professional boundaries? Are you keen and motivated to learn? If so, then your skills are invaluable to us, and we would like to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
In this post you will deliver excellent and individualised care to our patients, and you will be fully supported to achieve this through our comprehensive educational strategy.
Depending on your level of experience, you will develop your competence and confidence through a program of supervised practice, Post-Operative and Recovery specific competencies and a series of development days.
You will work within a Clinical Specialist team and contribute to activities and projects with a goal of professional and practice development. POCU is a new, developing service within the Trust and we are fully committed to offering the appropriate support, guidance and training of our staff to offer our patients the extended care they need post-surgery. There are a number of development opportunities such as the Degree top-up, Anaesthetic course and ALS/ILS/PILS.
You will be expected to transfer patients on their beds from recovery to the ward and hand over the care the patient received during their stay within the theatre suite.
In this role, you will be expected to undertake internal rotation of shifts, nights days and weekends with varying start and finish times.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.