Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly experienced SCP to come and join our team. The candidate must be already practicing at Band 7 or 8 level. We need someone who is professional and highly motivated to provide the SCP team with clinical leadership and innovative in looking at new ways to develop the teams and solidify all the good work that has already been achieved to take this team into the next chapter at Royal Papworth Hospital.
Main duties of the job
The Senior Surgical Care Practitioner will work closely within the Consultant cardiac surgical team and perform surgical procedures at an expert level. You will participate in aspects of pre, peri and post-operative patient care under the direction of the Consultant Surgeons ensuring exceptional standards of care.
As a senior SCP you will provide clinical leadership and supervision to all members of the multidisciplinary team and assist with the strategic planning, development, organisation, management, evaluation, and continuity of the SCP service. You will also support an on-call service.
Reporting to the Theatre Manager, you will be skilled in harvesting conduit, including the radial artery, EVH, first and second assisting. You will participate in aspects of pre, peri and post-operative patient care under the direction of the Consultant Surgeons. Working alongside the multidisciplinary team, you will be responsible for coordinating a comprehensive, integrated service, ensuring visibility and empowering of your teams to develop . Providing specialist clinical skills, leadership and management and will liaise with all relevant professional groups and agencies within and outside the Trust to enhance the delivery of care to our surgical patients.
About us
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.
The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Surgical Care Practitioner
- Specialist knowledge underpinned by degree and postgraduate level training, experience to master's level equivalent.
- Evidenced of continual personal development
- Current registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council or Health and Care Profession Council.
Desirable
- MSc and/or equivalent qualifications/experience
- Registered Independent & Supplementary non-medical prescriber or working towards it.
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable significant specialist experience post accreditation
- Proficient in conduit harvest (long saphenous vein and radial artery)
- Can provide evidence of effective leadership and developmental work undertaken at senior level.
- Evidence of relevant managerial experience within a clinical environment
- Experience of clinical audit/research.
- Evidence of sound decision making ability.
- Evidence of ability to act within appropriate protocols.
- Demonstrate effective time management skills.
- Motivated and the ability to motivate others.
- Desire for knowledge and awareness of own limitations
- Adhering to the NMC Code of Conduct/HCPC standards and professional practice guidance
- Understanding and managing clinical risk/governance, quality assurance issues at a senior level.
- Experience and knowledge of clinical audit/research.
- Awareness and role models professional appearance and behaviour
- Aware of cultural and social influences on health and of the importance of respecting diversity and differences
- Appropriate experience acquired to demonstrate:
- -high levels of clinical skill
- -excellent manual dexterity
- Ability to work autonomously and as part of a multi-professional team.
- Ability to develop and implement local policies.
- Good IT skills with ability to utilise and adapt application.
- software to inform others.
- Excellent communication skills, written and oral.
- Able to work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary team, patients and their relatives.
- Ability to negotiate changes to junior and senior colleagues in the organisation.
- Flexible approach to working hours and practices to meet the changing demands of the organisation. This will include an on-call commitment and weekend shifts
- Must show excellent skill with the handling of sharp and delicate instrumentation.
- Must demonstrate the ability to work safely in potentially hazardous environments.
- Calm, methodical and ability to work under pressure.
Desirable
- EVH Trained
- Experience in harvesting short saphenous vein.
- Awareness of broader issues within the Trust and the wider NHS
- Ability to integrate national guidelines/policies into local policies and practice.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration
- Maintain a professional attitude at all times.
- Work shift pattern required to ensure caseload targets are achieved and staff receives appropriate supervision and support.
Desirable
- Able to stay late on a case-by-case basis if necessary.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified Surgical Care Practitioner
- Specialist knowledge underpinned by degree and postgraduate level training, experience to master's level equivalent.
- Evidenced of continual personal development
- Current registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council or Health and Care Profession Council.
Desirable
- MSc and/or equivalent qualifications/experience
- Registered Independent & Supplementary non-medical prescriber or working towards it.
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable significant specialist experience post accreditation
- Proficient in conduit harvest (long saphenous vein and radial artery)
- Can provide evidence of effective leadership and developmental work undertaken at senior level.
- Evidence of relevant managerial experience within a clinical environment
- Experience of clinical audit/research.
- Evidence of sound decision making ability.
- Evidence of ability to act within appropriate protocols.
- Demonstrate effective time management skills.
- Motivated and the ability to motivate others.
- Desire for knowledge and awareness of own limitations
- Adhering to the NMC Code of Conduct/HCPC standards and professional practice guidance
- Understanding and managing clinical risk/governance, quality assurance issues at a senior level.
- Experience and knowledge of clinical audit/research.
- Awareness and role models professional appearance and behaviour
- Aware of cultural and social influences on health and of the importance of respecting diversity and differences
- Appropriate experience acquired to demonstrate:
- -high levels of clinical skill
- -excellent manual dexterity
- Ability to work autonomously and as part of a multi-professional team.
- Ability to develop and implement local policies.
- Good IT skills with ability to utilise and adapt application.
- software to inform others.
- Excellent communication skills, written and oral.
- Able to work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary team, patients and their relatives.
- Ability to negotiate changes to junior and senior colleagues in the organisation.
- Flexible approach to working hours and practices to meet the changing demands of the organisation. This will include an on-call commitment and weekend shifts
- Must show excellent skill with the handling of sharp and delicate instrumentation.
- Must demonstrate the ability to work safely in potentially hazardous environments.
- Calm, methodical and ability to work under pressure.
Desirable
- EVH Trained
- Experience in harvesting short saphenous vein.
- Awareness of broader issues within the Trust and the wider NHS
- Ability to integrate national guidelines/policies into local policies and practice.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration
- Maintain a professional attitude at all times.
- Work shift pattern required to ensure caseload targets are achieved and staff receives appropriate supervision and support.
Desirable
- Able to stay late on a case-by-case basis if necessary.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
