Employer East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Lister Hospital Town Stevenage Salary £31,049 - £37,796 per annum (pro rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 05/09/2025 23:59
Registered Nurse/ODP - Maternity Theatres
NHS AfC: Band 5
Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust,
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service
Job overview
We are recruiting for a Registered Nurse/ODP - Maternity Theatres who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
As a Registered Nurse /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.
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.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values:Include,Respect, andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for undertaking the role of scrub practitioner for both elective and emergency procedures within the maternity theatres, ensuring safe and effective care throughout the surgical process.
They will also provide compassionate, high-quality post-operative care to women in the recovery area, supporting their physical and emotional wellbeing during this critical period.
Working closely with the Department Manager, Matron, and members of the multidisciplinary team, the successful candidate will contribute to maintaining and promoting the highest standards of clinical care within the unit.
In addition, the role involves supporting, monitoring, and delivering care to women and their babies during clinical procedures and throughout the post-operative phase, ensuring patient safety and a positive experience at all times.
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
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
* Registered Nurse or Registered ODP
* Must be willing to undertake relevant post registration courses as advised by the Practice Educators/ Theatre Team Leaders
* ILS/ALS
* Evidence of continuing professional development
* Evidence of mentorship & preceptorship training
* Advanced Life support certificate
Previous Experience
* Gained through undertaking relevant study
* Post qualification experience within the perioperative setting
* 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
* Good interpersonal and communication skills
* Basic IT skills
* Can organise and prioritise
* Ability to demonstrate initiative
* Flexible
* Clear written and spoken English
* Can perform in the role of scrub and circulating assistant, recovery person or has relevant experience within a critical / acute care setting.
* Has relevant experience within maternity or gynaecology surgery
* Can effectively and efficiently run a theatre list
* Can participate in the audit process
Knowledge
* Aware of the National 6 Cs campaign
* Aware of Trust’s Values
* An understanding of peri-operative patient care
* Understanding of aseptic technique and the work involved in caring for a women in theatre
* Participate in audit
* Knowledge of the aims of the Trust
* 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.
When you apply...
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Secondments/Fixed term
Where a vacancy is advertised as a temporary position, the duration will be specified in the advert. If the vacancy becomes permanent towards the end of the specified duration, the successful applicant may not be required to re-apply and can be slotted into the role on a permanent basis if appropriate.
If you are an internal applicant applying for a temporary working arrangement, please see the attached notes on secondments.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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