Assistant Practitioner - Plastic Surgery & Burns CBT/Dressing Clinic

Job summary

Are you looking to progress further within your career in healthcare and gain new skills?

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Nursing Associate/Assistant Practitioner to join our Charles Beard Theatre/Dressing Clinic. We are providing you the opportunity to develop your knowledge and skills within Plastic Surgery & Burns department. Our department is unique due to opportunity to work in 2 different environments dressing clinic and local anaesthetic theatre.

We provide service Monday to Friday. You will require to work one long day a week. This is a full time role at 37.5 hours a week.

Main duties of the job

As a key member of the Plastic Surgery and Burns team, you will be expected to deliver high standard of preoperative and patient-focused care within a very busy and progressive department.

You should have good communication and interpersonal skills, be able to use your own initiative and work within multidisciplinary team and on your own. You will be expected to be flexible with working hour that includes working late evenings.

You will require working in both Plastic and Burns Dressing Clinic and Charles Beard Theatre (local anaesthetic only). Our Dressing Clinic is ran by nurses who have high level of autonomy, with the ability to make detailed care decisions, admit and discharge patients from the clinic.

You will gain valuable experience in pre and post-operative care, management of minor burns and specialised wound care. You will develop wound assessment knowledge and wound care management skills including Burns Care. These skills are transferable to any area of your nursing career. Moreover, you will have a unique opportunity to develop theatre skills, including running and scrubbing.

As a department we are constantly striving for excellence, delivering high quality patient focused care. Our nursing team is compassionate and empathetic and take pride in the high quality care. We proudly hold Gold Star accreditation from our last STAR visit. As a department we will offer you a friendly and professional environment with on-going support and learning opportunities.

About us

The regional Plastic Surgery Centre at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals provides specialist care and treatment for people across Lancashire and South Cumbria.

Lancashire Teaching Trust have 10000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

You'll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you'd never have done. You'll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.

You'll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.

Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Preston Hospital

Sharoe Green Lane

Fulwood

PR2 9HT

Employer's website

https://www.lancsteachinghospitals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Preston Hospital

Sharoe Green Lane

Fulwood

PR2 9HT

Employer's website

https://www.lancsteachinghospitals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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