Job summary
- Main area
- Anaesthetics
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Full Flexibility Required)
- Job ref
- 153-SU04408
- Employer
- University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Poole Hospital
- Town
- Poole
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 pa/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/04/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 28/04/2025
Employer heading
Anaesthetic Practitioner
Band 5
As University Hospitals Dorset we are a three site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.
We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.
As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.
Job overview
Operating Department Practitioners or Anaesthetic Nurses with Anaesthetic UK Qualifications and Experience- UHD theatres - primary base Poole Hospital
- At this exciting time, are you what we are looking for?
Theatre Practitioners across all our service areas
Are you looking for a new challenge and career progression? Working with multi-professional colleagues, you will become part of an expanding and transforming service. We are looking for dedicated and dynamic staff to join our experienced teams to support in the safe delivery of care and engage with the trust transformation and strategic vision. With our focus on quality, safety, transformation and service development, we are increasing our operating theatre suite and are looking for dynamic and enthusiastic people, to join the Anaesthetic Team in our expanding theatre department delivering a 24 hour service. You will join our extensive theatre team with multiple skills to enable you to gain further knowledge and advance your career.
This role is specifically for an Anaesthetic Practitioner.
This role requires a current UK Registration and UK Anaesthetic qualification.
Base Location: Poole Hospital but cross site working will be required
Interview Date: 28th April 2025
Main duties of the job
Our services cover multiple specialities, Orthopaedics and Trauma, Head and Neck, Obstetrics, General, Gynae, Day surgery, Urology, Vascular, Paediatrics, Anaesthetics, Emergency and Recovery.
We encourage duel or multi skilled practitioners, but you must be trained in anaesthetics practice and possess a current UK Registration and UK Anaesthetic qualification.
Working for our organisation
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued team mates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
In some cases this means that a services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have at interview.
Please note if the role or service is relocated as part of a planned move, employees will not be eligible for excess mileage reimbursement. Travel from the postholder's home to the new work base will be considered a normal commute. Any other changes not related to this relocation will be managed according to the relevant Trust or National terms and condition
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NMC registered Nurse (Advanced Diploma/Degree in Adult Health Nursing) or HCPC registered ODP (Dip (HE) Operating Department Practice)
Desirable criteria
- Learning and Assessing in Practice (or equivalent teaching/mentoring qualification)
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Working knowledge of basic operating department routine and surgical specialties undertaken
- Understanding of the surgical patient pathway through the hospital
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Highly motivated
- Recognises stress in self and others and manages appropriately
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working within UK guidance, regulations and procedures.
- Experience of caring for patients with acute and long term conditions
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Duane Cannon
- Job title
- Senior Clinical Lead Anaesthetics
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 019 8393
- Additional information
Additional contact telephone number 0300 019 2405
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