Band 7 Senior Theatre Practitioner

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical Practice

• To practice as an expert practitioner in own clinical area with a working knowledge of other clinical specialties.
• Lead in the planning and implementation of care.
• Monitor standards of practice, address deficiencies within team and role model high standards of care
• Identifying and minimising risk, reporting, investigating and addressing identified risks.
• Adhere to and role model dept and trust policies and guidelines.
• To support systems of sharing good practice and learning from clinical incidents.

Management

• To help facilitate team rosters with optimum skill mix to ensure cover of specialty.
• resource management (supplies/equipment), staffing stays within budget.
• Line management responsibilities- performance management, appraisals, sickness absence, allocations, training, interviewing, maintain standards.

Communication

• To promote and participate in effective dialogue between patients/relatives and other members of the MDT within Dept/wider trust.
• To care for a variety of patients where there are varying degrees of understanding and to treat patients/colleagues with dignity and respect.
• To exercise judgement, planning and analysis as a means of participating in the decision within the Dept, Care Group and wider trust.
• Ability to represent the interest of Theatres on the wider Acute Services Block workstream and to other Trust departments and provide expert Theatre opinion/perspective.

Education & Training

• To maintain and extend knowledge base as an expert Theatre Practitioner
• Support the learning environment in Theatres with the Practice Educator Team.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Ist level RGN or ODP with NMC/HCPC Registration
• Educated to Diploma/Degree level
• Practice Educator/Supervisor course with yearly updates.

Experience

• Significant clinical experience at Band 6 or above
• Expert level skills in Vascular/Interventional Scrub and experience in other specialties.

Communication

• Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills.
• Training and teaching skills
• Able to collaborate and work well in team environments.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• RGN or ODP with NMC or HCPC Registration
• Educated to Degree Level
• Teaching qualification/course- ENB 998, MSPP, A1 or V1/Practice Supervisor or Assessor
• Specialist Theatre Course

Desirable criteria

• management qualification or relevant training/courses

Experience

Essential criteria

• Currently working at least as a Band 6 or 7 in Scrub/Recovery or Anaesthetics
• Significant clinical experience experience in either Scrub/recovery or Anaesthetics
• Experience in an acute NHS trust or comparable experience
• Being able to lead a team

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria

• being able to lead and motivate Theatre colleagues
• Specialist scrub, recovery or anaesthetic skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and be able to work collaboratively with times both inside and outside of Theatres.
• Staff and resource management
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills- written and spoken
• Ability to work under pressure, adaptable, flexible and can meet deadlines
• Caring and compassionate
• IT skills and knowledge of trust information systems
• An interest in transformation, redevelopment work and change
• Working knowledge of risk and governance pertaining to Theatres
• Problem solving and analytical skills

It is an exciting time to join the newly formed Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We run two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Our 7,500 staff provide high quality care for a growing population of around 700,000 across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas.

You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. Travel between hospital sites may be required. We have state-of-the art facilities placing us at the heart of cutting edge health care. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post.

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

• Job Description (PDF, 220.3KB)
• Person Specification (PDF, 159.4KB)
• Functional Aspects - Senior Theatre Practitioner Bd 7 (PDF, 102.6KB)
• L&D Hospital site map (PDF, 96.8KB)
• Disclosure & Barring Information and Recruitment of Ex-Offenders (PDF, 78.5KB)
• Staff Diversity Network (PDF, 140.3KB)
• Information for Disabled Applicants (PDF, 98.7KB)
• Staff Benefits (PNG, 1.6MB)