Overview
This is a 28.5 hour a week post covering 24 hours/7 days a week service and involves internal rotation between day and night shifts and on-call shifts. A rotation plan will be provided to help you maintain competencies in 2 or 3 areas of practice to support your professional development. Multi-skilled ODPs with current experience are encouraged to apply. You are expected to work to high standards and maintain clinical excellence within the operating theatres, providing excellent care to all patients visiting the department. The theatres at MKGH are split into two suites with a total of 12 operating theatres, and a procedure room suite which undertakes both elective and emergency work. The role of the Band 6 is to assist in theatres in the delivery of safe and effective care to the patient.
Responsibilities
* Manage overall responsibility of the running of specific clinical theatre lists within a given day, including organising resources (to include staff) and dealing with emergency requests, re-establishing priorities as required to meet service needs.
* Act as team leader undertaking delegated tasks from Senior Team Leader / Manager to include PDR, sickness and performance management.
* Assess, develop, implement and evaluate patient care when receiving the patient into the theatre environment, whilst supporting the patient through invasive procedures and during handover at the completion of the anaesthetic/surgical procedure. Be able to deal with more complex cases such as paediatric patients (6 months onwards) and assist with difficult airways (awake fibre optic intubations).
* Prepare, assemble and check theatre and anaesthetic equipment, planning and organising their own time and that of junior staff. Ensuring the provision of equipment and stock for procedures planned for the coming week, troubleshooting potential issues as required.
Milton Keynes University Hospital, in proud partnership with the University of Buckingham, is a University Teaching Hospital committed to advancing patient care through cutting-edge research and education. With a "Good" rating from the CQC and significant investment underway, this is an exciting time to join our team and grow your career.
As a medium sized general hospital, we provide a full range of general medical and surgical services, including a busy Emergency Department, Maternity, and Paediatrics. As the population of our city and surrounding areas continues to grow rapidly, we are expanding and enhancing our facilities to meet rising demand and improve access to care for all our communities. We are also proud to offer a growing portfolio of specialist services. In January 2025 we opened our state-of-the-art Radiotherapy Centre, bringing advanced cancer treatment closer to home. Our services also include neonatology, specialist surgical care, and a wide range of diagnostics, supported by the new Community Diagnostic Centre at Whitehouse Health Centre. Further investment is underway, including the construction of Oak Wards - a new ward block featuring two 24-bed wards - and the recently approved Women and Children\'s Centre, set to open by 2030. Visit our website to explore the latest news and opportunities at MKUH - News - Milton Keynes University Hospital.
At Milton Keynes University Hospital, you will be welcomed into a friendly and supportive environment where teamwork and respect are at the heart of everything we do. We are proud to live our Trust values and behaviours every day, creating a culture where everyone feels heard and valued. MKUH staff\'s Motivation and Involvement scores are among the highest in our peer group, showing that our people feel inspired and included in decision-making (Staff Survey, 2024).
Benefits
* Free on-site parking including EV charging
* Complimentary refreshments
* Flexible working arrangements
* Discounted gym membership
* Salary sacrifice car scheme
* Generous annual leave, with the option to bank holiday entitlement
* Membership of the NHS Pension Scheme
* On-site nursery (charges apply)
* A well-being programme including EAP
Band 6 £38,682 - £46,580 per annum, pro rata. Hours 28.5 per week. All MKUH roles will be considered for flexible working. We are looking for an aspiring Band 6 Theatre Practitioner to join our busy operating department, with opportunities for Registered Nurses or Operating Department Practitioners (OPDs). We cover a range of specialties including trauma and orthopaedics, general surgery, urology, gynaecology, obstetrics, ENT and ophthalmology. There are exciting opportunities to train in procedures with the Versius Surgical Robot, recently introduced at MKUH to enable complex procedures with reduced patient impact and faster recovery.
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