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Job overview

If you are committed to high standard patient care and enjoy working in a friendly, highly motivated team then Theatres could be the right career destination for you.

We have a vacancy for a HCA to join our theatre teams. There will be a rotation to multiple specialities as part of a bespoke staff development programme.

The department has 8 ultra-modern theatres, including 2 Orthopaedic Barn style theatres and 2 integrated ‘Laparoscopic’ theatres.  We also have 4 day case theatres and a Surgical Admissions unit on site.

The Theatre Management team are passionate about providing support and cultivating a safe and friendly environment for both staff and patients. 

We work in teams by speciality including Breast/Gynaecology/Ophthalmology, General & Emergency Surgery, Urology and ENT, Anaesthetics, Recovery and Orthopaedics /Trauma. Each team has senior staff who support their team by providing duty rosters, annual leave allocation and training within the team.  This allows staff members a more personal working experience and helps improve job satisfaction.

Please note that recruitment for this role will follow the process below:

Monday 16th December - Assessment Centre and Interviews will be held at Infinity House (if you are shortlisted for this role) you will need to be available to attend in person on this date.  No remote/teams assessments or interviews will be available due to the face-to-face nature of the role.

Main duties of the job

HCAs carry out multiple duties in order to promote excellent patient care. Examples are ; patient support pre operatively, supporting scrub staff during surgical procedures, ensuring equipment and supplies are available for the operating list, transferring patients between locations and other duties to support the department.

Working for our organisation

MCHFT provides a full range of local hospital and community services for people across East Cheshire (population 399K) and West Cheshire and Chester boroughs (population 357K). The Trust provides high quality planned and unplanned/emergency care, cardiac and critical care as well as child health, maternity services, and intermediate care across our sites at Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford.

The Trust provides 500 beds and employs over 5,000 members of staff. An extensive range of community services is provided across 26 medical centres and schools by our community arm, Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership, in collaboration with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS FT and the South Cheshire and Vale Royal GP Alliance.

With the formation of Integrated Care Systems in July 2022 the Trust became a strategic partner in both Cheshire East and Cheshire West and Chester ‘places’ and is part of the Cheshire and Merseyside partnership caring for a population of over 2.7million. During the Coronavirus pandemic, the Trust was recognised nationally for its ‘Be Safe Be EquiPPEd’ campaign, which aimed to make the Trust as safe as possible for staff and patients, through supporting the correct use of PPE. At Mid Cheshire, our mission is to inspire hope and provide unparalleled care for the people and communities of Cheshire, helping them to enjoy life to the fullest.