Student Surgical Care Practitioner | University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 28 Awst 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £38,682 - £46,580 Per Annum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 27 Medi 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Leicester, LE39QP |
| Cwmni: | University Hospitals of Leicester |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7392094/358-7392094-RRC |
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The successful candidate will join a team of surgical care practitioners at one of the UK's busiest teaching hospitals.
During a three year academic course you will attain qualification to MSc standard while learning all of the necessary clinical skills in order to assist the consultant surgeon during cardiac surgical procedures.
You will require the ability to concentrate for long duration's, take instruction, have good communicational skills.
Applicants from a qualified nursing/ODP and Perfusion background are welcomed.
Working alongside the qualified Surgical Care Practitioner team, the Student Surgical Care Practitioner will learn and participate in operative procedures as well as all aspects of pre and post-operative care.
The Student Surgical Care Practitioner will learn to perform these roles with a high degree of clinical skill and specialist knowledge gained while training. They will develop during their training, substantial experience of a wide range of cardiac surgical procedures and techniques.
Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years (2023-2030).
We have four primary goals:
• high-quality care for all,
• being a great place to work,
• partnerships for impact, and
• research and education excellence
And we will embed health equality in all we do - taking active steps to reduce the avoidable differences in healthcare that some people face, working in partnership with communities.
Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all:
• we are compassionate,
• we are proud,
• we are inclusive, and
• we are one team
This is an exciting moment as we look to the future with clarity on what we already do well and where we need to focus our energies to make an even bigger difference for the people we serve.
About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust:
http://www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/aboutus/work-for-us/current-vacancies/
• To be taught how to act as first or second assistant under the direction of a Consultant Surgeon and Senior Surgical Care Practitioner in adult and Paediatric Cardiac procedures.
• To be taught how to undertake the surgical procedure of conduit harvesting (specifically the Long Saphenous Vein, Short Saphenous Vein and Radial Artery). Ensure the conduit is suitable for grafting and appropriate closure of the wound.
• Assist in the education and training of new scrub nurses to cardiac surgery.
• To be taught how to remove Intra- Aortic Balloon Pumps on the CICU following appropriate policies and procedures.
• Following training and under direct supervision of the Consultant Surgeon and Senior Surgical Care Practitioner, the Student will help with the insertion of Intra-Operative Intra-Aortic Balloon Pumps.
• To be taught how to inset Foley catheters following appropriate policies and procedures.
please see job description/person specification for further details on the role
This advert closes on Thursday 11 Sep 2025