Bank Theatre Scrub Nurse - Band 5
The closing date is 31 December 2025
Must have experience in orthopaedics. Potential for full time hours.
Responsibilities
* To provide a high standard of individualized care to patients, whilst maintaining their privacy and dignity at all times.
* To assess care needs, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care.
* To contribute to supporting the team leaders / Leads and their deputies.
* To support the maintenance of high standards of cleanliness in their own clinical area.
* Work within the theatre, undertaking competencies as required.
* Assess the care needs of the patients during surgery or treatment, undertaking competencies as required.
(We are not able to offer sponsorship on any bank vacancies at MSE so all applicants must possess unrestricted right to work in the UK)
Main duties of the job
Are you looking for work that fits around your lifestyle? Then this is the role for you. Bank at MSE Trust are looking for experienced Registered Scrub Nurses to join the Hospital Bank team. Joining the Staff Bank with Mid and South Essex Trust offers you the flexibility to pick up shifts which suit your lifestyle, meaning that you can pick up anything from full time lines of work to the odd shift to keep clinical skills up to date.
Benefits
* Flexible working patterns – including first choice of available Bank shifts – Day / Night / Weekends.
* Access to the NHS Stakeholder Pension & NHS discounts.
* Paid annual leave, statutory maternity/paternity pay (subject to qualifying criteria).
* Weekly payroll service.
* Training and development opportunities including free access to mandatory training.
* Occupational Health service.
* 24 hour booking service.
* Dedicated, supportive and friendly consultants.
Qualifications
* Minimum of 6 months post qualification experience within a hospital or care home environment.
* Eligibility to work in the UK.
* Current Registration with the NMC.
About us
* Making the care and safety of patients your first concern and acting to protect them from risk.
* Respecting the public, patients, relatives, carers, NHS staff and partners in other agencies.
* Being honest and acting with integrity.
* Accepting responsibility for your own work and the proper performance of the people you manage.
* Showing your commitment to working as a team member by working with your colleagues in the NHS and wider community.
* Taking responsibility for your own learning and development.
Job responsibilities
* Work as part of theatre team to assist or circulate for surgical procedures.
* Work competently in a variety of specialities for Paediatric and adult patients.
* To practice in accordance with the NMC / HCPC Code of Professional Conduct and Trust policies and procedures.
* Work within the Operating Theatre and Out of Department areas undertaking competencies as required.
* To be an effective team member and promote interdisciplinary working with outcomes aimed at the best interests of patients and cohesive service delivery.
* Train more junior staff and take part in the induction and orientation of new staff following appropriate training.
* Participate in clinical supervision/appraisals/audits.
* Take every opportunity to sustain and improve own knowledge and professional competence, reporting to senior staff any deficits that impinge on practice in a timely fashion whilst meeting the needs of the service.
* Implement and evaluate care plans as appropriate to surgical requirement and patients condition.
* Monitor and assess patients condition, responding to changes in condition proposing and making changes to care plan as required.
* To be aware of the management of drugs and to adhere to local policies and administer drugs as prescribed.
* Handover and transferring responsibility of care to colleagues, ensuring appropriate information and care is relayed.
* Direct and participates in the maneuvering and the positioning of both conscious and unconscious patients.
* Act as a clinical and professional role model at all times and demonstrate specialist knowledge and high standards of clinical practice and provide support or advice when necessary.
* Ensure all equipment has been regularly maintained.
* Ensure all equipment is used in accordance with the manufacturers instructions.
* Ensure any equipment found to be faulty/unsafe should be removed from use and reported to the appropriate department.
Person Specification
NMC registration
NHS experience
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
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