Job summary
Job Title: Scrub and Recovery Practitioner - Theatres
Hours per week: 37.5 hours per week
Perm/Fixed Term: Permanent
Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
Closing Date: 17th February 2025
Interview Date: 27th February 2025
**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. **
All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.
A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.
#JoinTeamEliot
Are you a dedicated healthcare professional looking to make a meaningful impact in a dynamic theatre department? We are seeking a skilled Band 5 Registered Practitioner to join our team. This role requires a broad knowledge and skill base, including excellent communication and teamwork abilities, to contribute to the smooth running of our theatre department. We have an exciting opportunity for a Scrub and Recovery Practitioner to join our Operating Theatres department.
Being sensitive to our patients and staff needs for courtesy, dignity and privacy and always ensuring a friendly environment.
Main duties of the job
- Carry out scrub duties according to policies and procedures, contributing to quality improvement, and promoting best evidence-based practice. Undertake all activities in a professional and proficient manner, including mandatory surgical checks prior to the start of the procedure, during and pre wound closure. Assemble, check, prepare, and coordinate the use of surgical equipment, drugs and consumables for a wide range of operative procedures. Act in the circulating role and promote a patient focused approach to care in collaboration with all relevant healthcare professionals.
- Assess, plan, provide, and evaluate care using the ABC approach for patients within recovery. Monitor physiological parameters, respond to changing patient needs, and ensure the safe administration of intravenous drugs. Your ability to react swiftly to sudden changes in patient condition will be critical.
- Working within the NMC/HCPC Guidelines and Trust Policies recognising one's own abilities and limitations.
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
About us
Here at George Eliot our vision to'excel at patient care' takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:
Effective Open Communication
excellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, in house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Maintaining a safe and clean environment within the clinical area in accordance with the Trusts Policies and guidelines
- Deliver a high standard of perioperative care based upon a sound evidence base. Provide skilled clinical assistance to the surgical, anaesthetic and recovery teams.Maintaining timely and accurate patient care documentation, ensuring that confidentiality is respected. Creates and utilizes opportunities to promote health and wellbeing of patients in our care.
- Communicating with and assisting the multidisciplinary team to always promote excellence in the delivery of patient care.Leads a perioperative team to manage a group of patients throughout a shift. Working within the NMC/HCPC Guidelines and Trust Policies recognising ones own abilities and limitations. To ensure 24-hour cover, working rotational shifts to include earlies, lates, nights, weekends, and Bank Holidays.
- Ensure that adequate resources are available to meet the needs of the patients and contribute to cost improvement programmes. Contribute to the maintenance of appropriate stock levels and have an awareness of materials management. Ensure that all equipment for patient use is kept in good working order in line with current Regulations. Ensure that adequate skill mix is available to meet the needs of the patients. If deficits are unavoidable, contact the appropriate Senior Staff for support.
- Ensure that concerns and complaints from patients, visitors or colleagues are resolved where possible and reported to the Team Leader / Senior Team Leader. Deputise for the Team Leader as and when necessary.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Maintaining a safe and clean environment within the clinical area in accordance with the Trusts Policies and guidelines
- Deliver a high standard of perioperative care based upon a sound evidence base. Provide skilled clinical assistance to the surgical, anaesthetic and recovery teams.Maintaining timely and accurate patient care documentation, ensuring that confidentiality is respected. Creates and utilizes opportunities to promote health and wellbeing of patients in our care.
- Communicating with and assisting the multidisciplinary team to always promote excellence in the delivery of patient care.Leads a perioperative team to manage a group of patients throughout a shift. Working within the NMC/HCPC Guidelines and Trust Policies recognising ones own abilities and limitations. To ensure 24-hour cover, working rotational shifts to include earlies, lates, nights, weekends, and Bank Holidays.
- Ensure that adequate resources are available to meet the needs of the patients and contribute to cost improvement programmes. Contribute to the maintenance of appropriate stock levels and have an awareness of materials management. Ensure that all equipment for patient use is kept in good working order in line with current Regulations. Ensure that adequate skill mix is available to meet the needs of the patients. If deficits are unavoidable, contact the appropriate Senior Staff for support.
- Ensure that concerns and complaints from patients, visitors or colleagues are resolved where possible and reported to the Team Leader / Senior Team Leader. Deputise for the Team Leader as and when necessary.
Person Specification
Essential and Desirable
Essential
- Experienced Scrub Practitioner within emergency specialty, including general, gynae, urology and trauma
- Experienced Recovery Practitioner
- Registered General Nurse and / or Registered Operating Department Practitioner
- Pending qualification with NMC, Registered General Nurse or HCPC , Registered Operating Department Practitioner
- Excellent communication skills
- Leadership skills
Desirable
- Mentoring & Assessing Qualification
- Experienced Anaesthetic Practitioner
- Evidence of competency for delivering care for High Dependency patients, or willingness to learn
Person Specification
Essential and Desirable
Essential
- Experienced Scrub Practitioner within emergency specialty, including general, gynae, urology and trauma
- Experienced Recovery Practitioner
- Registered General Nurse and / or Registered Operating Department Practitioner
- Pending qualification with NMC, Registered General Nurse or HCPC , Registered Operating Department Practitioner
- Excellent communication skills
- Leadership skills
Desirable
- Mentoring & Assessing Qualification
- Experienced Anaesthetic Practitioner
- Evidence of competency for delivering care for High Dependency patients, or willingness to learn
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
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).
