Job Title: Lead Scrub Theatre Practitioner
Location: The Portland Hospital, London
Salary: Competitive salary, private healthcare insurance for you and your family, vast range of additional rewards and benefits.
Hours: 37.5 Hours per week / Monday to Sunday + on calls requirement.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Scrub Lead Practitioner to join The Portland Hospital, part of HCA Healthcare UK. This role is ideal for a confident, clinically strong practitioner who is ready to lead from the front and set the standard in perioperative care.
The Lead Scrub Practitioner at The Portland Hospital will be on hand to provide clinical leadership to support and direct colleagues to plan, monitor and evaluate skilled and appropriate care for patients undergoing different forms of surgery to ensure the provision of evidence-based care. The lead practitioner will ensure that all safety aspects of intraoperative care are adhered to.
You must act as a role model in providing specialist knowledge within the scrub area and be able to work as part of a team supporting and developing colleagues by mentoring and assessing their skills. You will also benefit from HCA Healthcare UK’s strong focus on professional development, clinical excellence, and an outstanding rewards and benefits package.
The Portland Hospital is the only private hospital in the UK dedicated to the healthcare of women and children. We're the UK's largest private children's hospital with over 46 paediatric beds including a 10-bed intensive care unit, a neonatal intensive care unit, and a day-case unit. Caring for over 40,000 children a year, we provide treatment for children from new-born up to the age of 18. Surgeries range from minor ENT surgery to complex cardiac and spinal conditions involving a wide variety of professional. As the only fully private maternity hospital in the UK, delivering over 1,600 babies a year, we place great importance on providing safe and high-quality care for expectant mothers.
The five theatres at Portland provide a vibrant, exciting and professional environment to develop your skills, where you will work alongside world experts from some of the country leading teaching hospitals to provide exceptional healthcare.
Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Ensure all equipment and specialist kit is available, fit for purpose and functioning
2. Help to control cross infection by observing and supporting departmental policy regarding dress, the maintenance of a clean working environment, decontamination and sterilisation procedures and asepsis.
3. Prepare patients for clinical/operative procedures, both in anaesthetics and surgery
4. Ability to communication effectively and calmly in stressful situations
5. Work professionally with others of the multidisciplinary team, including with consultants
6. Provide leadership, support and guidance to staff in the appropriate staffing and allocation of scrub duties.
7. Ensure the cost effective and appropriate use of resources with consideration and due regard to budgetary control.
8. Motivate members of staff, achieve high morale and promote effective communication with the department.
Skills and Experience:
9. Substantial post-graduate experience in Theatres in a senior role
10. Recent paediatric caseload experience
11. Operating Department Practitioner/Registered Nurse qualified
12. Current HCPC/NMC Registration
Why HCA UK?
Originally founded over 50 years ago by Dr Thomas Frist, HCA has gone on to become one of the world’s leading healthcare providers. In the UK, we’re one of the largest providers of privately funded healthcare and have invested over £500 million in the latest treatments, technology, techniques, medication and facilities. Being part of a large multisite, established healthcare group we can offer you unrivalled opportunities for career progression through internal and external courses, as well as working conditions that prioritise both your mental and physical wellbeing.
By caring for our employees, we empower them to provide exceptional care for our patients. That’s why we offer a host of flexible benefits that reflect the invaluable contribution they make every day. As a Lead Theatre Practitioner in Scrubs you’ll be eligible for:
13. 25 days holiday each year (plus bank holidays) increasing with service, with option to buy or sell leave to suit you.
14. Private Healthcare Insurance for treatment at our leading hospitals.
15. Private pension contribution which increases with length of service.
16. Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work scheme.
17. Group Life Assurance from day one.
18. Critical illness cover.
19. Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay.
20. Corporate staff discount for all facilities including Maternity packages at The Portland.
21. Comprehensive range of flexible health, protection and lifestyle benefits to suit you.
22. Discounts with over 800 major retailers.
Culture and values
At HCA UK we believe exceptional care starts with our people. We celebrate the unique perspectives and different experiences each of us bring as we know that when you feel seen, heard and supported you can be at your best for our patients, and each other.
Our mission is simple, above all else we’re committed to the care and improvement of human life, a clear statement that extends to both our patients and colleagues. To achieve this, we live and breathe four core values:
23. Unique and Individual: We recognise and value everyone as unique and individual
24. Kindness and compassion: We treat people with kindness and compassion
25. Honesty, integrity and fairness: - We act with absolute honesty, integrity and fairness
26. Loyalty, respect and dignity: We trust and treat one another as valued members of the HCA UK family with loyalty, respect and dignity
Reasonable adjustments
We believe everyone should feel comfortable to bring their full self to work and be afforded the same opportunities. As a Disability Confident committed organisation, we’re happy to discuss flexible working arrangements to suit your needs as well as offer reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, and in the workplace, to anyone that needs them.
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