Anaesthetic Practitioner | Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 04 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £31,049 - £37,796 Per Annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 October 2025 |
| Location: | Swindon, SN3 6BB |
| Company: | The Great Western Hospitals NHS FT |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7432989/249-7432989 |
Summary
PREVIOUS CANDIDATES NEED NOT APPLY
As a registered Anaesthetic Practitioner, you will be an accountable and autonomous practitioner to act in the best interests of your patients at all times and take personal responsibility for your actions and decisions. To be responsible for patient assessment, planning of care, giving and supervising safe and compassionate care, and evaluating the effectiveness of care.
The post holder will be a NMC / HCPC registered practitioner or nurse who will assess, plan, implement and evaluate high quality, safe and compassionate care for patients in the perioperative setting. This care will be facilitated utilising evidence based perioperative standards, trust policies as well as local and national guidelines (e.g. NICE).
The post holder will be expected to work with the perioperative multidisciplinary team (including Anaesthetists and Surgeons) to provide effective care within the Anaesthetics, Scrub and Post Anaesthetic care disciplines, in line with scope of practice and departmental need.
The post holder will support the Theatre Leadership Team to ensure standards of practice and care quality are upheld; this includes acting as a role model, supporting the learning of others and contributing to the development and implementation of improvement ideas.
Our STAR values – Service, Teamwork, Ambition and Respect – are a golden thread running through everything we do. These values serve as a guiding principle, driving us towards our vision of delivering great joined up services to our local community. Whether at home, in the community, or within the hospital, our goal is to empower individuals to lead independent and healthier lives.
1. Assess, plan, and implement high quality, safe, compassionate and effective perioperative care for patients, in line with scope of practice.
2. Ensure risk management / safety strategies, Trust policies and departmental procedures are adhered to in the delivery of patient care.
3. Demonstrate a sound theoretical understanding and practical application of evidence-based, perioperative care standards in line with national recommendations and clinical guidance (e.g., NICE, AfPP).
4. Ensure patient safety strategies (e.g., WHO surgical Safety / 5 steps to safer surgery) are implemented consistently and where appropriate, contribute to the development of new initiatives which support the improvement agenda.
5. Promote dignity and respect, ensuring the patient is cared for in a way that meets their expectations and maximises patient experience.
6. Maintain accurate, comprehensive and comprehensible records of care provision delivered in accordance with legislation, protocols and guidelines
7. Understand and commit to the professional expectations of registration (NMC / HCPC), ensuring clinical activities are undertaken within scope of practice.
8. Effectively communicate with patients, service users and all members of the multidisciplinary team in a collaborative and professional manner; implement different communication techniques / strategies when communicating sensitive information or where there are barriers to understanding.
9. Coordinate the clinical activity of the operating session, working with the multidisciplinary team to ensure perioperative care is safe, effective and delivered efficiently to promote utilisation of theatre capacity; this will involve day to day supervision of theatre staff.
10. Contribute to a positive learning experience by undertaking teaching activities to support the development of staff and students within the perioperative setting; this includes promoting good practice and providing supervision to learners.
11. Use professional knowledge to support clinical advice as well as the maintenance and improvement of perioperative standards.
12. Accountable for maintaining standards of practice within the perioperative environment, promoting a professional, patient centred approach to care provision.
13. Evaluate the effectiveness of care by conducting audits to inform future practice, Trust policies and departmental procedures.
14. Responsible for reporting clinical incidents and adverse events to senior staff, as well as completing incident reports (DATIX) to support timely investigation and resolution.
15. Maintain clinical practice by keeping up to date with local/national policies, developments and initiatives relevant to professional area; utilising knowledge to inform current and future practice.
16. Undertake Continuing Professional Development (CPD) activities commensurate to the role and scope of practice; maintain professional portfolio to support the assessment / achievement of CPD by relevant regulatory bodies (NMC / HCPC)
17. Encourage and facilitate the generation and implementation of new initiatives within the clinical environment to support improvement for the benefit of patients, service users and colleagues.
18. Responsible for identifying strategies to support personal and professional development; supported by line manager to achieve ambitions.
This advert closes on Thursday 18 Sep 2025
As a registered Anaesthetic Practitioner, you will be an accountable and autonomous practitioner to act in the best interests of your patients at all times and take personal responsibility for your actions and decisions. To be responsible for patient assessment, planning of care, giving and supervising safe and compassionate care, and evaluating the effectiveness of care.
The post holder will be a NMC / HCPC registered practitioner or nurse who will assess, plan, implement and evaluate high quality, safe and compassionate care for patients in the perioperative setting. This care will be facilitated utilising evidence based perioperative standards, trust policies as well as local and national guidelines (e.g. NICE).
The post holder will be expected to work with the perioperative multidisciplinary team (including Anaesthetists and Surgeons) to provide effective care within the Anaesthetics, Scrub and Post Anaesthetic care disciplines, in line with scope of practice and departmental need.
The post holder will support the Theatre Leadership Team to ensure standards of practice and care quality are upheld; this includes acting as a role model, supporting the learning of others and contributing to the development and implementation of improvement ideas.
Our STAR values – Service, Teamwork, Ambition and Respect – are a golden thread running through everything we do. These values serve as a guiding principle, driving us towards our vision of delivering great joined up services to our local community. Whether at home, in the community, or within the hospital, our goal is to empower individuals to lead independent and healthier lives.
1. Assess, plan, and implement high quality, safe, compassionate and effective perioperative care for patients, in line with scope of practice.
2. Ensure risk management / safety strategies, Trust policies and departmental procedures are adhered to in the delivery of patient care.
3. Demonstrate a sound theoretical understanding and practical application of evidence-based, perioperative care standards in line with national recommendations and clinical guidance (e.g., NICE, AfPP).
4. Ensure patient safety strategies (e.g., WHO surgical Safety / 5 steps to safer surgery) are implemented consistently and where appropriate, contribute to the development of new initiatives which support the improvement agenda.
5. Promote dignity and respect, ensuring the patient is cared for in a way that meets their expectations and maximises patient experience.
6. Maintain accurate, comprehensive and comprehensible records of care provision delivered in accordance with legislation, protocols and guidelines
7. Understand and commit to the professional expectations of registration (NMC / HCPC), ensuring clinical activities are undertaken within scope of practice.
8. Effectively communicate with patients, service users and all members of the multidisciplinary team in a collaborative and professional manner; implement different communication techniques / strategies when communicating sensitive information or where there are barriers to understanding.
9. Coordinate the clinical activity of the operating session, working with the multidisciplinary team to ensure perioperative care is safe, effective and delivered efficiently to promote utilisation of theatre capacity; this will involve day to day supervision of theatre staff.
10. Contribute to a positive learning experience by undertaking teaching activities to support the development of staff and students within the perioperative setting; this includes promoting good practice and providing supervision to learners.
11. Use professional knowledge to support clinical advice as well as the maintenance and improvement of perioperative standards.
12. Accountable for maintaining standards of practice within the perioperative environment, promoting a professional, patient centred approach to care provision.
13. Evaluate the effectiveness of care by conducting audits to inform future practice, Trust policies and departmental procedures.
14. Responsible for reporting clinical incidents and adverse events to senior staff, as well as completing incident reports (DATIX) to support timely investigation and resolution.
15. Maintain clinical practice by keeping up to date with local/national policies, developments and initiatives relevant to professional area; utilising knowledge to inform current and future practice.
16. Undertake Continuing Professional Development (CPD) activities commensurate to the role and scope of practice; maintain professional portfolio to support the assessment / achievement of CPD by relevant regulatory bodies (NMC / HCPC)
17. Encourage and facilitate the generation and implementation of new initiatives within the clinical environment to support improvement for the benefit of patients, service users and colleagues.
18. Responsible for identifying strategies to support personal and professional development; supported by line manager to achieve ambitions.
This advert closes on Thursday 18 Sep 2025
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