Job overview
Are you an experienced Band 5 scrub nurse looking to take the next step in your career? We have an exciting new vacancy for a Band 6 scrub practitioner in Orthopaedics. The successful candidates will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills providing leadership and clinical management advice to the whole multidisciplinary team. You will be expected to assist and deputise for the band 7 in managing the day to day running of the operating theatre.
Main duties of the job
What we look for:
1. Experience as a band 5 scrub nurse
2. Adaptable, Flexible and hard working
3. A desire to demonstrate great leadership
4. A commitment to ensure high quality patient care
What we Offer:
5. Leadership training and development within the NHS leadership academy Specialist training in your area of work The opportunity to work in an Orthopaedic team
6. Your life outside HHFT is important and the Trust are happy to consider applications with flexible working patterns that cater to individual requirements; this can be discussed at interview
Working for our organisation
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
7. Professional UK registration eg NMC, HCPC
8. Post registration qualifications in field of expertise
Desirable criteria
9. Aware of local and national agenda within the speciality
Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria
10. Evidence of significant post registration clinical work experiance
11. Evidence of continued professional development (CPD)
12. Aware of local and national agenda within the speciality
13. Design and delivery of effective organisation wide training programmes and or interventions
Skills & Ability
Essential criteria
14. Clinical skills appropriate to the relevant specialty
15. Advanced communication skills including complex, sensitive or confidential information in an appropriate manner, also to liaise effectively: to understand and disseminate multifaceted information
16. Able to deliver learning sessions
17. Organisational and ongoing planning skills including own workload and of others in an unpredictable environment
Desirable criteria
18. Highly specialist clinical skills across the relevant specialty
19. Able to work as part of a team, and lead a Multi-professional team