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Theatre Practitioner - Scrub

Employer
HCA Healthcare UK
Location
London
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
12 Oct 2018

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Sector
Surgical Nursing
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time

Job Details

HCA Healthcare UK – The World’s largest private hospital group; providing award winning acute and complex care.

At The Harley Street Clinic, we provide a range of complex care services for adults, children and babies, specialising in oncology, cardiology and neuroscience. From open heart surgery on new-born babies to pioneering techniques to treat cancer, our clinicians work together to provide the best possible care and treatments for our patients. Our staff always go the extra mile in caring for our patients which can be demonstrated by our recent outstanding rating awarded by the CQC.

We have separate paediatric and adult intensive care units (ICUs), and our paediatric ICU is the largest private facility in Europe, with 18 beds. This allows us to support cardiology, cardiac, thoracic, cancer, spinal and other major treatments for children. We have 103 beds in total, including nine adult ICU beds offering the highest level of one-to-one care.

Job Description

The post-holder is responsible and accountable for providing high quality clinical assistance to the Surgeon during surgical procedures.

To ensure that professional and national standards are met in accordance to the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC), Health Professions Council (HPC) and HCA’s Code of Conduct.

The successful candidate will also be responsible for assessing, developing, implementing and evaluating programmes of care for patients undergoing surgical procedures.

You would be working to prepare equipment and instruments according to the individual needs of the patient and Surgeon, as well as involvement with the updating of Surgeon preference cards.

This is a full time role working 37.5hrs per week – Rotational shifts across 7 days (No Nights)

The attractive and competitive salary for this role is between £32,000 - £36,000 (With an additional 6% Shift enhancement) and will be dependent upon skills and experience.

Reward & recognition – We'll look after you with our contribution pension scheme, private medical insurance, annual salary review, 247.5hrs holiday each year; with the option to buy and sell and excellent career development; with clear career pathways and access to further education. We can also offer you support with relocation if you are living outside of London or the UK; subject to terms and conditions.

Duties & Responsibilities

  • Assessing, planning, delivering and evaluation of peri-operative patient care
  • Working with members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team following local protocols and standards
  • Awareness of the effective management of resources within the department
  • Participate in education, training and development of other staff
  • Ensure all equipment is checked prior to use and any faults reported to the Theatre Co-ordinator immediately
  • Help to control cross infection by observing departmental policy regarding dress, the maintenance of a clean working environment, decontamination and sterilisation procedures and asepsis
  • Prepare patients for clinical/ operative procedures, both in anaesthetics and surgery
  • Provide assistance in clinical/ operative procedures, both anaesthetics and surgery
  • Provide initial emergency care as required
  • Participate fully as a team member, including working in all areas of the theatre suite, sharing knowledge and information and supporting colleagues, to promote a cohesive team and the achievement of team objectives
  • Ensure the accurate collection of data in relation to theatre activity.
  • Maintain the safe custody, handling of drugs in accordance with hospital policy.

Skills & Experience

  • 1st Level Registration with evidence of meeting NMC requirement.
  • Registered with Health Professions Council.
  • Experience in surgical practice
  • Effective Communication
  • Knowledge about surgical equipment.
  • Sound Decision making process
  • Team worker
  • Positive attitude

About The Individual

At HCA UK we recognise and value everyone as unique and individual; treat people with kindness and compassion; act with absolute honesty, integrity, and fairness and trust and treat one another as valued members of the HCA UK family. As someone looking to join our family, you will demonstrate these key values.

You will also actively participate as a member of a team to move the team towards completion of tasks, goals, and objectives; demonstrate leadership and influence others to be the best they can be and inspire our colleagues and patients; and deliver information in a clear, concise, and compelling manner to effectively engage others and achieve desired results.

If you wish to find out more about this opportunity, please apply for this role and a member of the team will be in contact shortly.

Company

HCA Healthcare Over 50 years of creating a healthier tomorrow.   

Today HCA is the largest private healthcare provider in the world, and the largest provider of privately funded healthcare in the U.K. A world-class network of over 30 facilities in London, Manchester, Wilmslow, Glasgow and Prestatyn, with its latest venture opening in Birmingham in 2024.  Uniquely we also partner with the NHS to provide care within large NHS teaching hospitals. No other U.K. provider can match our global scale, breadth and depth of knowledge and expertise. We treat 27 million people each year across our global network, and many of our hospitals are rated ‘Outstanding’ by the CQC. Covering virtually all aspects of medicine from prevention and diagnosis through to treatment and aftercare in both our Primary and Secondary Care Divisions. Cardiac and Cancer Care, Paediatrics, Orthopaedics, Rehabilitation, Urgent Care, GP and Health screening to Obstetrics, IVF and Maternity care, to name a few.   

We can promise by joining the HCA family, you will learn from experts in every department, and your opportunities will be endless. You will be empowered to achieve more in your career and will be provided with outstanding rewards and development support to match the level of care we are famed for.  

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