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Job Overview
A vacancy has become available for a highly motivated Band 5 Scrub Theatre Practitioner/Nurse to join our team and work within our dynamic theatre department at Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr Hospital. The theatres unit is a busy environment hosting orthopaedics, general surgery, breast surgery and gynaecology. We are a supportive, friendly department that is strongly centred on teamwork and patient care.
The ideal candidate will have experience working within an operating theatre and will be supported fully through an orientation programme. Candidates are expected to demonstrate commitment to personal development, a keen interest in the progression of theatre services and peri‑operative care, and the ability to adapt to the needs of other Health Board sites when required. Excellent communication skills, reliability, hard work and strong teamwork are essential. The ability to speak Welsh is desirable; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome.
Benefits
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities, including paid mandatory training, excellent in‑house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications, and professional career pathways with a range of management development programmes. Flexible working, a healthy work‑life balance, occupational health support and an ambitious Wellbeing Centre of Excellence plan are also available.
Education / Qualifications
* Registered General Nurse (RGN) NMC Registry with a recognised anaesthetic qualification or Operating Department Practitioner (ODP) HCPC Registry
Desirable Qualification
* Degree‑level qualification or willingness to work towards one
Skills and Attributes
* Good communication skills
* Knowledge of current issues in health care
* Knowledge of research and its application in practice
* Efficient use of equipment and materials
* Comprehensive knowledge of ABUHB policy and procedures
* Good written and IT skills
* Able to demonstrate a problem‑solving approach
* Patient and public focussed
* Caring and empathetic
* Adopts a flexible approach to work and shift patterns
* Prepared to be accountable for own practice
* Professionally assertive and willing to act as a patient’s advocate in communication with other healthcare professionals
* Demonstrates awareness of professional limitations
* Willingness to show initiative and self‑directed learning
Desirable Skill
* Appreciation of audit and research methodologies
* Able to demonstrate a problem‑solving approach
* Welsh language skills (levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading and writing)
Knowledge
* Knowledge of the recovery area
* Evidence of professional development that meets the minimum requirement of the post holder’s professional body mentorship qualification
Experience
* Working within a hospital setting
Desirable Experience
* Previous experience working in a critical care environment, theatre department or postoperative surgical setting
* Recovery experience
Other
* Ability to travel within a geographical area to meet the requirements of the post
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