Senior Recovery Practitioner | Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 17 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £46,419 - £55,046 p.a. incl. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 August 2025 |
| Location: | London, E9 6SR |
| Company: | Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7327458/293-SWNS-0471 |
Summary
Are you a passionate and experienced Recovery Practitioner looking for your next challenge? We are seeking a dedicatedSenior Recovery Practitioner (Band 6)to join ourTheatres / Day Stay Unitteam. This is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in delivering high-quality post-operative care while developing your leadership skills.
About the Role:
As aSenior Recovery Practitioner, you will:
✅ Deliver outstanding, safe, and evidence-based care to post-operative patients.
✅ Support the professional development of yourself and your colleagues.
✅ Take on a lead role within the Recovery department, as identified by the Matron/Senior Theatre team.
Why Join Us?
Work within a dedicated and supportive team.
Take on leadership responsibilities and contribute to service improvements.
Benefit from ongoing training and professional development opportunities.
Work Pattern:
We operate asix-day working week (Monday – Saturday)to help reduce elective surgery waiting times. You will be expected to work some weekends on a rotational basis.
If you are an experienced recovery practitioner looking for a rewarding and dynamic role, we would love to hear from you!
Clinical Professional
1. To provide high quality, effective, individualised care to all patients by assessing care needs and developing, implementing, and evaluating them without supervision.
2. To maintain personal contact with patients, carers, relatives and to show sensitivity to their needs for courtesy, dignity, and privacy.
3. To act as an effective role model, whilst being an expert resource providing excellent quality care for patients and a knowledge base for colleagues.
4. To maintain accurate and up to date documentation while ensuring and respecting confidentiality.
5. To assist in the leadership and development of an identified group of practitioners within the unit compliment.
6. The post holder is responsible for planning, implementing, and assessing care of patients.
7. Communicating with and assisting surgical teams in promoting excellence in care using a multi-disciplinary approach.
8. To provide expert, evidence-based care within the specialty.
9. The post holder will ensure that standards are met as per national and local guidelines, including National Frameworks.
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing and flourishing organisation serving the population of Hackney, East London, The City and beyond.
We are extremely proud of the fact that Homerton Hospital has recently attained the highest possible rating of "Outstanding" from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Our integrated Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community health services for its local population and a range of specialist services for a wider group of patients. In addition, the Trust manages services out of St Leonard's Hospital and the Mary Seacole Nursing Home.
Homerton aims to ensure equality and value diversity, and we are committed to inclusion for all of our staff. This is reflected in our policies, procedures and People Plan. All of our staff are expected to embody our Trust values at all times.
We are also committed, through our Fair Recruitment Standards, to ensuring all applicants are treated fairly.
Homerton has a proud tradition of supporting and developing its staff, including its well-regarded and valued nursing community, and all staff are able to take advantage of a great range of benefits.
Homerton is proud to have been included on the HSJ & Nursing Times Best Places to Work list.
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s on this page
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
This advert closes on Thursday 31 Jul 2025
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