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Theatre Nurse/Operating Department Practitioner

Job details
Posting date: 24 April 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £28,407 - £34,581 pro rata per annum
Hours: Part time
Closing date: 24 May 2024
Location: Ashington, NE63 9JJ
Company: Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 6236168/319-6236168JA

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Summary

A Vacancy at Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.


We require Registered Nurses or Operating Department Practitioners to join our Orthopaedic/General theatre scrub team within the elective theatre department at Wansbeck General Hospital.

Previous theatre experience would be an advantage, however a comprehensive training package is in place for newly qualified staff, or those new to the theatre environment.

The successful candidate should be motivated and enthusiastic and committed to delivering safe, high quality care.

Full time posts ( Part time hours may also be considered)

Delivering excellent standards of care and providing patient support throughout the peri-operative phase, advocating on behalf of the dependent patient. Undertaking the scrubbed and circulating role, ensuring safe environment and practice is maintained. Working with, and supporting other members of the multi-disciplinary team. Preparation and monitoring of the environment of care, and equipment. Supervising junior colleagues, unregistered staff and students.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.


• To assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care under the direction of the senior nurse/SODP
• To assist in the provision of nursing care and maintain high clinical standards
• To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct
• Develop over time and contribute to the management of a clinical area and take charge in the absence of Senior Nurse/ODP
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust.
• This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others(b) uses coachingto promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates teamworking and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.


This advert closes on Wednesday 8 May 2024

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