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Job overview

Full time 37.5 hours per week. Permanent post.

To develop to become an autonomous practitioner across all specialties with the indirect support of senior staff.

Participate in staff rotation through the various specialties.

Plan the day's activity relating to surgery regarding equipment and patient care.

Provide peri-operative care in a systematic planned process using a series of integrated steps, focusing interventions on individual patients' needs.

Establish and maintain the sterile field ensuring minimisation of risk of infection through effective procedures.

Main duties of the job

To develop to become an autonomous practitioner across all specialties with the indirect support of senior staff.

Participate in staff rotation through the various specialties.

Plan the day's activity relating to surgery regarding equipment and patient care.

Provide peri-operative care in a systematic planned process using a series of integrated steps, focusing interventions on individual patients' needs.

Establish and maintain the sterile field ensuring minimisation of risk of infection through effective procedures.

Accountability for swabs, needles instrumentation and other equipment used during the procedure.

Safe labelling and transportation of specimens.

Prepare and return instruments for decontamination to the third party sterile services provider, with appropriate paperwork and reporting any missing items or other defects.

Provide skilled support to the scrubbed practitioner in the role of circulator.

Maintain responsibility for the identification of own continuing educational needs and development and take part in annual appraisal.

Working for our organisation

Our scrub teams have the opportunity to learn new skills and procedures, in a supportive, professional, safety orientated environment. 
Whether you are just setting out on your career or are experienced with transferable skills we would like to talk to you about the opportunities to join us and care for our patients at a vulnerable time in their lives and to provide optimised patient outcomes every time. In return for your commitment, enthusiasm and dedication we will provide you with the technical skills and provide one to one support from our dedicated Practice Education team. Regular skills training is provided around our audit time. An annual appraisal will enable you to direct your own learning and professional interests.

As an organisation we are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do and in the provision of safe, effective patient care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit staff who share the organisation’s values and beliefs. The department has an excellent recruitment and retention rate, which reinforces the supportive team approach to our staff.