Senior Operating Department Practitioner

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Are you a skilled Operating Department Practitioner or Registered Nurse with a passion for cardiothoracic care? We're seeking an experienced ODP or RN with relevant qualifications to become an part of our dynamic team!

As a member of our team, you'll serve as a clinical expert in cardiothoracic care, overseeing the anaesthetic team to ensure seamless daily operations and uninterrupted patient care. Your role blends clinical responsibilities with first-line management duties, making a significant impact on patient outcomes and team performance.

Responsibilities include:

Ensuring high-quality care and a safe environment for patients

Managing staff and resources effectively for optimal clinical outcomes

Handling emergencies with skill and expertise

Serving as a mentor and role model for junior colleagues

Providing direct leadership, including staff appraisals and performance management

Driving positive change and fostering a culture of flexibility and patient-centered care

In addition to supporting patients before, during, and after surgery, you'll work with specialised equipment and drugs to ensure safe and effective anaesthesia delivery. Your role extends beyond the operating theatre, facilitating communication between surgical teams and other hospital departments while ensuring smooth patient transitions to critical care or recovery areas.

Main duties of the job

You will act as clinical expert for their speciality and be responsible for direct supervision of the anaesthetic team ensuring that the daily activity flows smoothly and without unnecessary breaks in care delivery. This is a mainly clinical role with first line management elements.

*Professionally accountable and responsible for the high-quality care and a safe environment for patients within their delegated clinical area.

*Manage staff and resources in the safe and effective delivery of clinical care, attempting to problem solve and escalating to the Clinical Leads for Anaesthetics as appropriate.

*Have the skills, knowledge, and expertise to be able to take appropriate action when dealing with emergencies.

*Be a role model to junior colleagues in the delivery of patient care.

*Be responsible for direct leadership of delegated staff, including but not limited to performing staff appraisals and escalating to senior colleagues' areas of poor conduct and/or performance and undertaking appropriate action to support improvement.

*Act as an agent of change in achieving a culture that is flexible and responds positively to the needs of the service and our patients.

*Support the Clinical leadership team in activities related to the improvement of theatre utilisation ensuring effective communication and flow.

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.

For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour

Date posted

04 April 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£35,392 to £42,618 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

175-2425-1-TP570

Job locations

Royal Papworth Hospital

Papworth Road

Cambridge Bio Medical Campus

Cambridge

CB2 0AY

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 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

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

HCPC registered ODP or NMC registered nurse with recognised anaesthetic course
Evidence of Post Qualifying Continuing Professional Development
Mentoring Qualification or equivalent

Desirable

Practice assessor qualification.

Experience

Essential

Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team.
Ability to work flexibly
Ability to treat all patient/employee information confidentially
Ability to prioritise and meet deadlines
Ability to communicate information verbally which maybe sensitive and or difficult

Desirable

Evidence of working within a similar environment

Additional Criteria

Essential

Evidence ability to uphold the Trust's values Compassion Excellence Collaboration and associated behaviour standard at all times

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

HCPC registered ODP or NMC registered nurse with recognised anaesthetic course
Evidence of Post Qualifying Continuing Professional Development
Mentoring Qualification or equivalent

Desirable

Practice assessor qualification.

Experience

Essential

Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team.
Ability to work flexibly
Ability to treat all patient/employee information confidentially
Ability to prioritise and meet deadlines
Ability to communicate information verbally which maybe sensitive and or difficult

Desirable

Evidence of working within a similar environment

Additional Criteria

Essential

Evidence ability to uphold the Trust's values Compassion Excellence Collaboration and associated behaviour standard at all times

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.