Advanced/Anaesthetic Practitioner/ODP/Anaesthetic Nurse

Job summary

Advanced Anaesthetic Practitioner B6 Anaesthetic Practitioner B5 Operating Department Practitioner/Anaesthetic Nurse

Our hospital is recruiting for highly motivated and experienced Operating Department Practitioner/ Anaesthetic Nurse's (ODP/AN) to join our high performing theatre team. With a focus on Anaesthetics, this is your opportunity to join one of the UKs leading hospitals and take your career to the next level. This unmissable role offers the opportunity to work alongside some of the regions most experienced Consultants, covering varied and diverse cases.

We are seeking qualified professionals with excellent and efficient anaesthetic skills. They must be able to lead a team of junior staff in liaison with the Band 7 managers. We would love you to join our friendly and dynamic theatre team at Croydon Elective & Emergency Surgical Centres within Croydon University Hospital

Croydon Elective Centre consists of nine operating theatres, specialties include:

• Orthopaedics
• Urology
• Gynaecology
• General
• Colo-rectal
• Upper and Lower GI
• Breast
• Max-Fax
• ENT
• Paediatrics (ENT,Ortho and General

Main duties of the job

Our Croydon Elective Centre (CEC) has been nationally recognised for our innovative practice and has been described as a 'blueprint' for theatre activity in the UK. We are very proud that due to our success in providing ongoing but separated elective and emergency surgical care that the new British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak chose our theatres at Croydon University Hospital las his first NHS hospital to visit after his election in 2022.

As a senior ODP/Anaesthetic Practitioner, you will be expected to assist our anaesthetists in safe care, not only in a theatre setting but outlying areas, such as

• Interventional Radiology, Xray and Endoscopy suites
• Emergency Surgical Centre
• ED / Resus
• Obstetrics dept

You should be competent, proactive, and flexible and have a keen eye for detail to maintain our excellent care standards.

About us

Croydon theatres is a supportive workplace and for your ongoing professional and educational development many opportunities are available including leadership to assist your career and enhance your skills to meet our challenging work place. We also provide a number of staff network and wellbeing groups.

We have successfully continued to operate during the Covid-19 Pandemic and operated on over 100% of our pre Covid numbers, providing urgent treatment to Croydon and mutual aid patients. This has been accomplish through inspiration and motivation of the multi-disciplinary teamwork. We have effectively overcome the challenges and set new ways of working to ensure our patients have their elective surgery.

Our Croydon Elective Centre (CEC) has been nationally recognised for our innovative practice and has been described as a 'blueprint' for theatre activity in the UK. We are very proud that due to our success in providing ongoing but separated elective and emergency surgical care that the new British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak chose our theatres at Croydon University Hospital las his first NHS hospital to visit after his election in 2022.