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.
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.
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
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.