Band 5 Scrub Practitioner | St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 03 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £34,089 - £41,498 per annum inc HCAS (pro-rata) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, SW17 0QT |
| Company: | st georges nhs trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6166639/200-6166639-MA-VA-Y |
Summary
Providing excellent nursing care. As skills and competencies develop taking
charge and actively participating in and contributing to the management of the theatre area or department on a regular basis. Supervising and mentoring junior staff.
Band 5 Theatre Scrub Nurse/ODP – Neuro scrub - 1 year fixed term
We are looking for enthusiastic staff to come and join our neuro theatre scrub team at St Georges. We are interested in hearing from staff who do have experience in neuro, but also from those who do not as we are happy to support and facilitate the training of the individuals who are keen to learn. We are proud to be one of the major trauma centres with a helipad supporting the South East of England . We are a tertiary referral centre for complex neuro , spine and scoliosis surgery . We have 33 operating theatres between St George's and Queen Mary's Hospitals . Our staff work in teams and we are committed to keeping our focus on giving Outstanding Care, Every Time to our patients.
We have 33 operating theatres between St George's and Queen Mary's Hospitals . Our staff work in teams and we are committed to keeping our focus on givingOutstanding Care, Every Timeto our patients.
The main duties of this job role include:
- Setting, monitoring and maintaining excellent standards of nursing care in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team.
- Ensuring that nursing procedures are carried out in accordance to Trust's polices.
- As skills and competencies develop, taking charge and actively participating in and contributing to the management of the theatre area or on a regular basis.
- Supervising and mentoring junior staff.
With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.
Their main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.
As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.
The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification document which contains more and the person specification for this role.
This advert closes on Tuesday 23 Apr 2024
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