Job overview
We are recruiting for a Registered Nurses or Operating Department Practitioners (ODP) who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
If you are passionate about providing consistently outstanding care and delivering exemplary service to patients, this is the perfect opportunity for you!
About the Role:
As a Registered Nurse or ODP in our Maternity Theatres team you will play a vital role in ensuring the highest standard of care for women undergoing clinical or peri-operative procedures. You will be responsible for:
Scrubbing for elective and emergency maternity theatre cases.
Providing compassionate, post-operative care to women.
Collaborating with the Department Manager, Matron, and a multi-disciplinary team to maintain the highest standards of care.
What We Offer
At Lister Hospital, we are committed to creating a supportive and inclusive environment. You'll have the opportunity to work in a dynamic team, contribute to service improvements, and grow your career. You will be required to rotate across our theatre teams and specialities.
Our core values—Include, Respect, Improve—are at the heart of everything we do. We encourage you to embody these values throughout your recruitment journey and as part of our team.
Main duties of the job
Assist and care for women undergoing elective and emergency caesarean sections, plus contributing to treating women during clinical emergencies.
Receive, transfer and position women for clinical procedures.
Support, monitor and care for women and their babies during clinical procedures and in the postoperative period.
Work as part of a multidisciplinary team to ensure the safety and comfort of women.
Store, prepare and administer prescribed drugs to women in accordance with Trust Policy and monitor the effects of drugs on women.
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
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 have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation, and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. 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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person specification
Qualifications / Training
Essential criteria
* Registered Nurse or Registered ODP
* Must be willing to undertake relevant post registration courses as advised by the Practice Education team
Desirable criteria
* ILS/PILS
* Evidence of continuing professional development
* Evidence of mentorship & preceptorship training
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
* Gained through undertaking relevant study
* Post qualification experience within the perioperative setting
Desirable criteria
* Relevant experience in either an inpatient or day surgery theatre, maternity theatre or other relevant clinical area.
* Peri-operative practice, skilled in recovery and scrub
* Experience of providing clinical support outside of the theatre area
Skills
Essential criteria
* Good interpersonal and communication skills
* Basic IT skills
* Can organise and prioritise
* Ability to demonstrate initiative
* Flexible
* Clear written and spoken English
Desirable criteria
* Good planning skills. Can effectively and efficiently run a theatre list Can participate in the audit process
* Can perform in the role of scrub and circulating assistant, recovery or has relevant experience within a critical / acute care setting
* Has relevant experience within maternity or gynaecology surgery.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Aware of the National 6 Cs campaign
* Knowledge of the aims of the Trust
* Aware of Trust’s Values
* Understanding of peri-operative patient care
* An Understanding of aseptic technique and the work involved in caring for a woman in theatre
* Participate in audit
* Team work
Desirable criteria
* Knowledge of privacy / dignity & infection control relating to theatre area
Our values
We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do.
Include
We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.
Respect
We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.
Improve
We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.
Committed to our Community
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community. We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve. We are on a journey to become a more inclusive organisation and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of their background. In particular we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce .
We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019.
We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing resourcing.enh-tr@nhs.net
We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust.
We are committed to being a carer-friendly environment, addressing the complex needs of families with caring responsibilities. In partnership with Carers in Hertfordshire, all our working carers have access to support from recruitment. We are also a member of Carers UK, providing resources to make balancing work and caring easier. Our approach is inclusive, recognizing diverse challenges and creating a supportive environment where carers feel valued.