Job summary
- Main area
- Theatres
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 359-6476877-T2
- Employer
- Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Maidstone Hospital
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Theatre Practitioner
Band 5
Job overview
Are you a theatre practitioner looking for a new role? Will only the best do for you and your patients? Do you want to be part of a dynamic team?
We are currently looking for driven, methodical and highly motivated registered practitioners to join our operating theatre departments.
Whether you are a registered nurse, Operating Department practitioner or paediatric nurse looking for a change or to gain experience with more complex and specialist surgery and anaesthetic, we want to hear from you.
This role will be a great opportunity for you to progress in your career.
Main duties of the job
We are a mainly elective site at Maidstone Hospital and cover a wide range of specialities with a focus on elective surgery – including Urology, Oncology and non Oncology Gynaecology, Upper GI, Breast and Orthopaedics. We do perform emergency Urology and Ophthalmology surgery, and remain on standby for any complications.
We have four theatres in our Main Theatre department, two theatres in our Day Case theatres, two Ophthalmology theatres, and one Oncology theatre. We also visit outside areas like Cardiac Cath Lab and the CT scanner to assist our colleagues in other departments. We also opened our Elective Joint Surgery theatre (Maidstone Orthopaedic Unit) in December 2016. Soon will be opening our new Elective Orthopaedic Complex (KMOC).
These posts are full time (37.5 hour four day week with varied shifts). This post will also require you to work the occasional late shifts (until 20:00), and perform weekday/weekend on calls from home currently standing at 1/12 weekends.
Working for our organisation
MTW is a large acute hospital trust in the south-east of England.
We provide a full range of general hospital services and some aspects of specialist and complex care to around 600,000 people living in west Kent and East Sussex. We have a team of over 8,000 full and part-time staff. We also provide specialist cancer services to around 2 million people across Kent and East Sussex via the Kent Oncology Centre.
In the 2024 NHS staff survey, our employees ranked MTW among the top 10 NHS Trusts nationwide and the second-best Trust to work for in the South East.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Once your pre-employment checks have been completed you will be contacted by Recruitment to arrange your start date which will be in line with one of our Corporate Inductions.
Following your Corporate Induction you will be expected to attend the Trust’s 2-week Induction Programme for RNs, NAs, RMs, ODPs and Paramedics. The programme is full-time (please email [email protected] if this is problematic) and will involve travel to both Trust sites. The programme includes supernumerary shifts in the clinical area, classroom-based sessions and e-learning.
Please note that appointment to this post will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure & Barring Service Check at Enhanced Level. (Enhanced level now includes regulated checks against vulnerable adults and children)
At MTW, we seek to develop a culture where everyone can reach their full potential with opportunities to grow and develop their career. We recognise and value the unique contributions that each of our staff bring, delivering the best quality care and service to our patients. We are committed to being a diverse employer and strive to reflect everyone in our local communities. We welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experiences and celebrate the diversity of thought, viewpoints and ideas that will make our Trust the best place to work.
We support our staff with disabilities to ensure they have the adjustments they need to be the best they can be in the workplace. Collaborating with Access to Work means that our staff are assessed by experts in the workplace and we ensure that their recommendations are implemented as quickly as possible. You can find out more here: Access to Work: get support if you have a disability or health condition: What Access to Work is - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Interview Date: To be confirmed
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RGN / RN (Adult or Child)/ODP
Skills
Essential criteria
- Specialist clinical skills
- Assesses patients & their care needs
- Ability to work within the multidisciplinary team
- Demonstrates ability to use own initiative
- Effective & concise communication skills demonstrated.
- Communication of sensitive information which will need reassurance and empathic communication skills
- Demonstrate & understanding /use of constructive analysis to improve team performance. To act as mentor for pre and post registration students & other leaner’s
- Demonstrates understanding of clinical issues within the Theatre Department
- Knowledge of current NHS Issues
- Organisational skills
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to deal with distressing circumstances
- Ability to solve problems & recognise when to seek advice
- Enthusiastic & personally motivated with the ability to motivate others
- Good interpersonal skills
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
- Princy Noble
- Job title
- Lead Practice Development Facilitator
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01622224364
- Additional information
Princy Noble
PDN
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