Job summary
The Theatre at North Manchester General Hospital are looking for enthusiastic staff to come and join the growing team. We are currently looking to employ newly qualified or experienced Registered Nurses and ODPs to expand our acute and maternity teams.
At North Manchester we cover a wide variety of services, Trauma, Maxillo Facial, Breast, General Surgery, Gynaecology and ENT. Our team also have maternity emergency and elective theatres and we welcome staff with maternity experience to come and work on our site.
Within the surgical team you will help manage the preparation of the operating theatres.
Skills needed :
Ability to work within a team
Ability to work in a highly technical area
Excellent problem solving and organisational skills
Excellent communication skills
Thorough, thoughtful, and conscientious approach to working
You will become efficient and effective in anticipating the requirements of the surgical team and responding effectively ensuring high standards of clinical outcome and best patient experience.
Main duties of the job
Develop as an autonomous practitioner with indirect support of seniors.
Prepare for emergencies that might occur.
Plan the day relating to workload assessing specific requirements to deliver optimum care.
Provide planned peri-operative care, focusing on individual patients' needs.
Scrub
Maintain a sterile field mitigating risk of infection.
Accountability for swabs, needles instrumentation and equipment used for procedures.
Safe specimen labelling and transportation.
Return instruments for decontamination to sterile services, with appropriate paperwork and reporting defects.
Anaesthetic
Provide assistance to the Anaesthetist.
Manage controlled drugs.
Assist in transfer of critically ill patients within the hospital and externally if necessary.
Recovery
Carry out the preliminary checking of all required equipment.
Receive patients from theatre, ensuring information pertaining to the patient's care needs, identification, anaesthetic and surgery is correct.
Participate in the post-operative recovery of patients at all levels of dependency.
Assess patient's condition, pain and airway requirements, administer analgesics as prescribed.
Liaise with medical staff any adverse changes with the patient.
Provide care for high dependency ventilated patients in the absence of HDU beds.
Ensure the patient meets the discharge criteria prior to returning to the ward area.
About us
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse/Operating Department Practitioner
- Degree or Diploma
- Anaesthetic and Recovery Qualification
- Scrub experience
Desirable
- Degree
- Mentorship Qualification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working on own and as part of a team
- Ability to supervise and support junior staff.
- Evidence of teaching and assessing skills/ability.
- Awareness of clinical Audit
Desirable
- Evidence undertaking a mentor/preceptor role
- Experience in relevant area of practice
Skills
Essential
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Able to work as part of a team
- Proven ability to problem- solve.
- Demonstrates awareness of own limitations.
- Ability to organise workload and delegate tasks appropriately.
- Well developed organisational skills.
- Dexterity and accuracy in physical skills.
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of current nursing issues
- Knowledge of clinical governance
- IT/ Word Processing
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse/Operating Department Practitioner
- Degree or Diploma
- Anaesthetic and Recovery Qualification
- Scrub experience
Desirable
- Degree
- Mentorship Qualification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working on own and as part of a team
- Ability to supervise and support junior staff.
- Evidence of teaching and assessing skills/ability.
- Awareness of clinical Audit
Desirable
- Evidence undertaking a mentor/preceptor role
- Experience in relevant area of practice
Skills
Essential
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Able to work as part of a team
- Proven ability to problem- solve.
- Demonstrates awareness of own limitations.
- Ability to organise workload and delegate tasks appropriately.
- Well developed organisational skills.
- Dexterity and accuracy in physical skills.
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of current nursing issues
- Knowledge of clinical governance
- IT/ Word Processing
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).
