Job requirements
Essential
3 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Qualifications
NMC Registered Nurse (Adult and/or Children)
- Qualifications
Alternatively, you’ll be HCPC registered with a Diploma or Degree in Health Care Studies. You might even be qualified to ODP Level 3 NVQ or ODA 752.
- Qualifications
Previous recovery experience is essential
Desirable
Not listed in the available specification.
Job Description:
Theatre Nurse / Practitioner - Recovery
Cromwell Hospital - London, SW5 0TU
Bank
£32 per hour
We make health happen
At Bupa, you can be the Nurse you want to be. With the autonomy to use your skills and strong benefits to support you, patient care can be your top priority.
Building a career in Nursing has never been easier, with good hours, you can live a balanced, healthy lifestyle.
Our main adult theatre is a busy and dynamic environment, setting the benchmark for clinical excellence. We have 6 operating suites catering for Cardiac, Orthopaedics, ENT and Ophthalmic, Plastics, General/Vascular, Urology and Gynaecology. We work with surgeons who are the best in their specialities carrying out simple to the more complex surgeries.
Joining Bupa, you'll benefit from access to our state-of-the art Clinical Training Facility, a centre for connected learning, care and careers. This forms part of Bupa Campus, a vibrant new learning initiative which brings us together in virtual and physical spaces across the Bupa globe
You’ll help us make health happen by:
As our Recovery Theatre Practitioner, you'll be an important part of our operating theatre team, providing both clinical and technical assistance. You'll help to assess patient needs, and then implement and maintain agreed standards of care.
You will work in our busy and dynamic operating theatre, as part of a multi-disciplinary team that’s setting the benchmark for clinical excellence.
- Prepare patients for clinical and operative procedures in Recovery
- Assist in clinical and operative procedures in Recovery
- Provide immediate post-operative care
- Provide recovery assistance to our consultants during all surgical procedures
Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:
- NMC Registered Nurse (Adult and/or Children)
- Alternatively, you’ll be HCPC registered with a Diploma or Degree in Health Care Studies. You might even be qualified to ODP Level 3 NVQ or ODA 752.
- Previous recovery experience is essential
Benefits
We are a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. We reinvest profits into providing more and better healthcare for the benefit of current and future customers.
These benefits have been carefully crafted to really make a difference to our people’s lives, supporting a work-life balance whilst keeping focus on mental and physical wellbeing:
- Weekly pay for bank shifts
- Shift enhancements for nights and weekend working
- A friendly supportive working culture with established Nursing teams
- Opportunity to work within the renowned Cromwell hospital and our top consultants
- Subsidised staff canteen and coffee shop
- Inclusion in the NEST government pension scheme
Why Bupa?
We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.
We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.
If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email: careers@bupa.com
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