Overview
Theatre Practitioners - Scrub & Recovery role at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust. We are recruiting for Registered Practitioners in Theatres who share our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients. Our service now includes admission and recovery of elective patients and a continued emergency service for the Trust. Our team works 24/7, 365 days a year. As part of a rotation with other team members, you'll be expected to work evenings, nights, on calls, Bank Holidays and weekends. We have roles within Theatres, in Scrub & PACU and there is an expectation to be rotated across all theatre areas to assist and care for patients undergoing a variety of elective (Vascular, Orthopaedics, Urology, Obstetrics & Gynae, Plastics, Robotics, ENT and General Surgery) and Emergency procedures.
Our values are Include, Respect, and Improve. It's crucial that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond.
You will receive, transfer and position patients for clinical procedure.
You will be responsible for preparing the Theatre for surgery and preparing sterile equipment/ supplies and keep waste to a minimum.
Responsible for preparation, safe use, decontamination, troubleshooting and reporting of faulty complex equipment.
Admit and discharge theatre patients, care for patients post operatively.
Work as part of a multidisciplinary team to ensure the safety and comfort of patients.
Work in any of the Theatre areas according to service needs, regardless of which theatre department they are based in including QE2 site, although it is anticipated that staff do permanently work in the department they are employed to be based in.
Participation in on- calls and out of hours working is needed by all staff, regardless of the department they are based in, to provide emergency access to our most acutely ill patients.
We Run The Following Hospitals
* The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
* New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
* Hertford County, Hertford
* Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lesley Lowing | Job title: Theatre Clinical Educator | Email: lesleylowing@nhs.net | Telephone: 01438284591
Seniority level
* Entry level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Health Care Provider
Industries
* Hospitals and Health Care
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