Job summary
Employer heading
Scrub Theatre Practitioner
Band 5
Job overview
We are looking for a dynamic, innovative and highly motivated registered practitioner (Nurse or ODP) with excellent clinical knowledge & scrub skills to join a core multidisciplinary team within the theatres at Manchester Royal Infirmary.
In return for your dedication, you’ll benefit from in-house training to develop your core competencies, together with opportunities to undertake further courses in support of your ongoing development. We have a Preceptorship Programme and excellent PBE's and Clinical Educators on hand to support. Newly qualified nurses and ODP's encouraged to apply.
Previous applicants needn't apply.
Main duties of the job
To develop to become an autonomous practitioner across all specialties with the indirect support of senior staff.
Participate in staff rotation through the various specialties.
Plan the day’s activity relating to surgery regarding equipment and patient care.
Provide peri-operative care in a systematic planned process using a series of integrated
steps, focusing interventions on individual patients’ needs.
Establish and maintain the sterile field ensuring minimisation of risk of infection through effective procedures.
Accountability for swabs, needles instrumentation and other equipment used during the procedure.
Safe labelling and transportation of specimens.
Prepare and return instruments for decontamination to the third party sterile services provider, with appropriate paperwork and reporting any missing items or other defects.
Provide skilled support to the scrubbed practitioner in the role of circulator.
Maintain responsibility for the identification of own continuing educational needs and development and take part in annual appraisal.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll 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 you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
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 [email protected].
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse/Operating Department Practitioner
- Degree or Diploma
- Scrub Skills
Desirable criteria
- Degree
- Mentorship Qualification
- Anaesthetic and Recovery Qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- 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 criteria
- Evidence undertaking a mentor/preceptor role
- Experience in relevant area of practice
Skills
Essential criteria
- 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 criteria
- Knowledge of current nursing issues
- Knowledge of clinical governance
- IT/ Word Processing
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
- Tracy O'Connor
- Job title
- Theatre Team Leader
- Email address
- tracy.o'[email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 701 2156
- Additional information
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