Senior Theatre/Recovery Nurse/ODP

Job overview

• As a member of the maternity theatre team, you must be able to perform the tasks of theatre scrub and recovery nurse, supporting the surgeon and other members of the multidisciplinary team.
• To act as a team leader to identified group of staff, monitoring and documenting the development of their clinical skills.
• Be able to scrub independently and contribute to smooth running of the theatres list and recover women in recovery area as Band 6.
• To establish, lead and maintain high standard of pre/peri and postoperative care.
• To undertake Obstetric recovery training within 3 months if you have no recovery experience (1 week refresher training only for those who have worked in this area).
• Be responsible for the safe use of complex theatre equipment and ensuring that all equipment at work areas is ready for use.
• Follow process of reporting if equipment is faulty or damaged. Responsible for reporting low stock and non-stock supplies that needs ordering and arranging servicing of said equipment both routine and urgent.
• Be responsible for the own continuing specialist professional development
• In order to meet the needs of the Trust’s services you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work.

Main duties of the job

• Act as patient advocate in line with the NHS plan and to actively apply in depth knowledge of holistic/ socio-economic and cultural aspects of the care to clients within your specific speciality, acting as a role model and resource for patients, relatives and staff
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care, actively seeking evidence based practice which will support clinical outcomes as appropriate.
• Ensure that midwifery and nursing documentation is maintained to the Trust standard (including electronic records) and implement clinical audit of records to measure and evaluate care planning

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification.