Job summary
- Main area
- Scrub
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 302-24-6388952S
- Employer
- Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Albert Edward Infirmary
- Town
- Wigan
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/09/2024 23:59
Employer heading
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Theatre Scrub Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 5
Choose Well - Choose WWL
Job overview
We are looking to recruit dynamic and flexible Band 5 Scrub Practitioners. at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS teaching Hospital, you will be rewarded with real job satisfaction as confirmed by our employee surveys. This satisfaction comes from working in a team that puts patient’s interests at the heart of everything they do.
Our driving force is our ability to invest in our people, as we support our Theatre Nurses and ODPs to build their skills through mentoring and formal training such as ALS, and PLS.
The role involves working a rota pattern across 7 days Monday - Sunday, including days and nights.
Main duties of the job
Spread over three sites Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh cover both acute and elective surgery with a wide procedure portfolio .
Across our three theatre sites teams work closely with some of the region's leading consultants and are exposed to the latest innovative, evidence -based clinical techniques, on our Wigan site we have our integrated laparoscopic theatre our Wrightington site have investing a surgical robot and our Leigh site is currently expanding to four operating theatres.
Here on the Wigan site we undertake adult and paediatric elective and emergency surgery, with Wrightington and Leigh focusing on elective adult surgery.
This vacancy is open to all internal and external candidates. Please note all candidates could be asked to work at another Trust site as required.
Soon to be qualified student nurses and ODPs are welcome to apply.
Please Note: Candidates will be asked to provide original qualifications at interview stage.
Working for our organisation
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that ‘happy staff, makes for happy patients’. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement, and living our values.
WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.
At WWL we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key results from the job holder
- The post holder will demonstrate responsibility for:
- Identifying what is required of self in delivering individualised patient care.
- Developing competencies in self that safeguard practice and effectiveness in role. Ensuring compliance with NMC / AODP Codes of Conduct.
- Participation in the effective use of allocated resources / funding.
- Demonstrating awareness of; and participation in development to meet demands, and adapt to the changing needs of the service.
- Empowering self and colleagues to creatively meet professional and organisational objectives.
- Promoting safe systems, which assure all aspects of risk reduction, complaint with the Health and safety at work act 1974 and the agenda for Clinical Governance.
- Demonstrating an awareness of local/national policies and strategies, and ensure up-to-date working knowledge of legal matters that, may impact within the clinical area.
- Identifying, maintaining and improving the quality of care through application of evidence based practice.
- Participating in self-development and development of less experienced staff to creatively meet professional and organisational objectives.
Planning and Organisational Duties
The post holder will participate in, and influence, care delivery by:
- Acting as a catalyst in questioning expert professional knowledge within the team influencing application of theory in practice.
- Identifying, maintaining, evaluating and improving the quality of care through application of evidence based practice within the clinical area.
- Developing sound clinical skills and competency within their defined field working without direct supervision to ensure the application of professional standards in all aspects of care delivery within the clinical environment.
- Demonstrating an awareness of the appropriateness of transferable skills when providing individualised high quality patient care.
Communications and Key Working Relationships
The post holder will demonstrate effective communication and organisation awareness levels by:
- Using a multimedia approach to influence outcomes.
- Working closely with own team, theatre co-ordinator, senior team leader and matron/theatre manager to promote good work relationships with all members of the multidisciplinary team.
- Maintaining compliance with the Data Protection Act 1988 and information governance ensuring confidentiality is adhered to.
- Maintaining accurate and legible records of care. To respond to requests for information.
- To receive and pass on information to others, maintaining confidentiality.
- To build and maintain effective working relationships with all colleagues across the division and Trust.
- Maintaining accurate and timely records.
- To communicate effectively with all professions.
- To behave in a professional manner at all times.
Responsibility for Finance
The post holder will participate in:
- Contributing to the effective and efficient utilization of theatre resources identifying shortfalls and liaising with senior team leader / theatre co-ordinator.
- Participate in ensuring the effective use of all financial resources in providing and delivering the service
- Demonstrate awareness of the need for Cost Improvement Programmes within the service
Responsibility for Human Resources
The post holder will be responsible for:
- Adhere to Trust policies and maintenance of the professional Code of Conduct.
- Adherence to legal requirements of Trust, NMC and HPC.
Responsibility for Health & Safety
Compliance with the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 – the post holder is required to fulfil a proactive role towards the management of risk in all of their actions. This entails the risk assessment of all situations, the taking of appropriate actions and reporting of all incidents, near misses and hazards, and a statutory duty of care for their own personal safety and that of others who may be affected by their acts or omissions.
Maintaining consistency within standards of care for both elective and emergency care.
- Ensuring that all work is carried out in a safe manner with due regard to the Health and safety regulations.
- Ensuring risk assessments of all situations are completed.
- Taking appropriate action and reporting of all incidents, near misses and hazards.
- Maintaining a duty of care towards personal safety and that of others who may be affected by their acts or omissions.
- Maintaining compliance with the data protection act 1998 and information governance ensuring confidentiality is adhered too.
- Effectively using verbal and written word to influence outcomes.
- Participating in the timely recording of patient documentation ensuring that only accurate and effective data is collected about the care episode.
Responsibility for NHSLA
The post holder will:
- Monitor the standards and quality of care and lead on improvement through benchmarking, audit and research.
- Contribute to the development of clinical policies / procedures / guidelines / standards of care within the theatre department.
- Participation of departmental research and audit.
- Application of evidence based practice within the care delivery.
- Demonstrate under pinning theoretical knowledge within their clinical practice of Infection control, Health and Safety, Ethical and Legal issues.
- Demonstrate adaptability of the role within distinct clinical environments.
- Recognise the appropriateness of transferable skills when providing individualised high quality patient care.
- Demonstrate application of professional standards in all aspects of care delivery within the clinical environment.
- Demonstrate adherence to the NHSLA standards and outcome.
- Demonstrate adherence to CQC essential standards of quality and safety.
Responsibility for Teaching
The post holder will promote life-long learning through the use of appropriate coaching, teaching and assessment in practice by:
- Ensure own clinical credibility by maintaining own professional development and completion of mandatory training session.
- Participate in the induction and subsequent training of new staff members and pre-registration students acting as a mentor to students as required.
- Participate in the development of educational programmes for use within the clinical area.
- Provide education and development opportunities for the team.
- Act as a positive role model at all times.
Work Circumstances & on-call
- Full time 37.5 hours per week
- Internal rotation within the theatres.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse/ODP with current NMC/HCPC registration.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate ability as professional role model.
- Experience of working on own and as a member of a team.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Highly developed interpersonal, verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
- Developed analytical and problem solving skills.
- Developed analytical and problem solving skills.
- Ability to maintain and improve standards of care.
- Ability to plan and prioritise own and other’s workload.
- Evidence of ability to work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team.
- Demonstrate ability as a professional role model.
- Standard keyboard skills and use of health care IT packages such as, ORMIS, HIS etc.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Up to date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues.
- Knowledge of evidence based practice.
- Understanding of research/audit.
Additional
Essential criteria
- Flexibility within contracted hours to meet the demands of the department.
- Ability to support colleagues in other perioperative disciplines within own level of competence e.g. anaesthetic, scrub and PACU.
- Speak English to an appropriate standard relevant to their role, i.e. with confidence and accuracy, using correct sentence structures and vocabulary, and without hesitation
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Andrea Nickeas
- Job title
- Senior Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01942 822202
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