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Job summary

Main area
Surgery
Grade
Band 5
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
408-24-1291
Employer
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Arrowe Park Hospital
Town
Wirral
Salary
£29,970 - £36,483 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
01/01/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust logo

Theatre Practitioner - Anaesthetics

Band 5

Apprenticeship Eligibility Criteria 

Should this vacancy be recruited as an apprenticeship, the following criteria will apply:

UK nationals or other persons with a right of abode have an eligible residency status if they have been ordinarily resident in the UK or the British Overseas Territories, or the Crown Dependencies (Channel Islands and Isle of Man) for at least the previous 3 years on the first day of the apprenticeship.

To find out why you should apply for a role at Wirral University Teaching Hospital, please view our video and listen to what our staff say working at WUTH is really like: https://youtu.be/Z5oMaNXprn8

 

Job overview

Wirral University Teaching Hospital is seeking to recruit an Operating Department Practitioner or Registered Nurse to join our dynamic theatre department. 

The post holders will need to be able to work as part of the multidisciplinary team helping to provide our patients with the highest level of care as well as being able to work as an individual practitioner.

Applicants must be committed to delivering high quality patient focused care and have excellent interpersonal skills.

Main duties of the job

Our trust has 24 theatres over two sites providing elective services in Ophthalmic, Upper GI, Colorectal, Orthopaedics, ENT, Vascular, Gynaecology and Obstetrics and Paediatrics, as well as Emergency surgery and Orthopaedic trauma service. Our dedicated teams cover satellite areas such as interventional radiology, A&E, MRI and ECT. We also provide pioneering treatment with our Da Vinci robot. 

The posts will be full time, predominantly based at our Arrowe Park site, although the successful applicants will have the opportunity to rotate through various theatre specialities and will undertake cross site working. We currently have vacancies for anaesthetic practitioners, covering both in and out of hours care.

Applicants must be committed to delivering high quality patient focused care and have excellent interpersonal skills.

Working for our organisation

All new colleagues can expect to receive a warm and friendly Wirral welcome from the very first time they make contact with us. We are described as “competent and caring staff” by our patients.

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is situated on The Wirral peninsula which has a stunning coastline and beautiful countryside surroundings, with great activities for its residents.

We are one of the largest and busiest acute Trusts in the North West of England, comprising of the Wirral’s only Emergency Department. We provide a high quality range of acute care services and employ over 6,000 staff, who serve a population of approximately 400,000 people across Wirral, Ellesmere Port, Neston, North Wales and the wider North West footprint.

We have approximately 855 beds trust-wide and our financial turnover is in excess of £337m.

The Wirral is easily accessible with excellent transport links including motorway, train, bus or ferry and within easy reach to the major cities of Liverpool, Chester and Manchester as well as neighbouring North Wales.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description for further information about the Theatre Practitioner position available at WUTH.

Shift Pattern: (if applicable) over seven days including late shifts, weekends and nights.

Person specification

Qualifications, Specific Experience & Training

Essential criteria
  • Registered Nurse/Operating Department Practice
  • Maintain up to date skills and knowledge and maintain awareness of professional issues

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria
  • Participate in teaching and developing staff, regularly taking part in learning activities that develop skills and knowledge of self and others
Desirable criteria
  • Ensure the effective use of physical and financial resources

Personal Attributes

Essential criteria
  • Ability to identify own learning requirements

Qualifications, Specific Experience & Training

Essential criteria
  • Adhere to Trust policies and procedures
  • Maintain up to date skills and knowledge and maintain awareness of professional issues.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria
  • Monitor and maintain health, safety and security of self and others
Desirable criteria
  • To act up in the absence of team leader
  • Assist in the development of policies, protocols, and guidelines.

Personal Attributes

Essential criteria
  • Value and respect all individuals by actively adopting the core trust values and behaviours
  • Self-Motivated
  • Desire to develop personally and professionally
  • Good time management

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Catherine Beale
Job title
Speciality Lead - Anaesthetics
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0151 678 5111
Additional information

Internal Ext; 2688

 

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