Theatre Practitioner | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 15 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £28,407 - £34,581 Per Annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 June 2024 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L9 7AL |
| Company: | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6276928/287-ASUR-78-24 |
Summary
Theatre Practitioner
Band 5
Permanent
Full Time - 37.5 hours per week
Are you an experienced theatre practitioner looking for a new challenge? Are you a newly qualified practitioner looking to develop and enhance your skills? Do you enjoy the challenges of working in a dynamic patient care environment?
Liverpool University Hospitals - Aintree site are looking to recruit full and part time Operating Department Practitioners and Registered Nurses who wish to develop their skills in theatre. You will have drive and enthusiasm to learn new skills, whilst gaining further qualifications.
The Aintree site has 20 operating theatres across four departments which cover a wide variety of surgical specialties. The trust is part of the Major Trauma Centre Collaborative (MTCC), a partnership between Liverpool University Hospitals and The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust and is the regional Major Trauma Centre for the North West, providing the full range of services and clinical expertise for patients who are severely injured from all areas of the region.
As a single site major Trauma Centre for the North West we provide a 24/7 emergency service and staff are required to participate in this cover.
The successful post holder will be based in C Theatres where we enjoy the reputation of being a Centre of Excellence in surgical intervention in minor/intermediate and major surgical specialties and have the luxury of working in our newly built £20 million Hybrid vascular suite. As part of the Aintree Vascular Centre this gives all of our patients access to innovative, image guided surgery in a state of the art purpose built unit.
Other departments include:
Main A theatre
• Major Trauma and Orthopaedics:
• Emergency theatre
Main B Theatre:
• Routine and oncology ENT
• MFU elective and trauma
Elective Care Centre Theatres:
• General Surgery
• Orthopaedics
• Digestive Diseases
• Urology
• Breast
• Ophthalmology
• Vascular
• Dermatology
• ENT
• Maxillo Facial Surgery
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
To hear more about our achievements click here https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/media/13089/1606-annual-report-booklet_final.pdf
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• Perform comprehensive assessment of patient care needs.
• Plan, implement and evaluate care according to changing health care needs.
• Supervise and support team members.
• Collect, collate and report information, maintaining accurate patient records and theatre documentation.
• Involve multidisciplinary team and where possible patients, carers /relatives in the planning and delivery of care.
• Establish and maintain effective communication with multi- disciplinary team and patients carers/relatives.
• Recognise and respond appropriately to urgent and emergency situations.
• Seek/act on advice from team leader/specialty leader, or relevant other.
• Training in practice is compulsory, to develop from scrubbing for superficial elective cases to all surgeries. This training will be supported by preceptorship with a comprehensive assessment process.
• Perform Bag Mask ventilation
• Undertake Insertion of Laryngeal masks / I Gels
• Assist in the transfer of patient to post-operative care unit
• Where require establish and maintain effective communication with multi- disciplinary team, patients, carers/relatives and other wards and departments
This advert closes on Wednesday 29 May 2024