Bank Band 6 Senior Operating Department Practitioner

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Our trust has around 10,000 staff serving 1.6 million patients. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.

Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers' money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.

Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

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Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for Band 6 Senior Operating Department Practitioner to help us deliver our Trust Values whiles giving good care to the local community.

Chase Farm Hospital is seeking dynamic people to join our team in Theatres.

Chase Farm Hospital is an exciting place to work, with dedicated elective surgery theatres including day surgery areas and recovery that supports 8 theatres, one of which is a Barn theatre complex. The Barn Theatre is a large room with 4 theatres with no dividing walls, this is the new design for ultra-clean theatres for elective orthopaedic procedures.

We are the North London Orthopaedic Centre / Hub which is exciting times for learning and developing skills in Orthopaedics.

Chase Farm Hospital is a fully elective and most digitally advanced hospital site in the UK, supporting the following specialities .

Orthopaedic, Urology, Gynaecology, Oral Max Fax, ENT, General Surgery, Ophthalmology and vascular.

We are looking for motivated and dynamic people who can support our Anaesthetic teams whiles also developing your own skills to ensure progressive training is happening to help staff with promotions in the future.

Main duties of the job

Working shifts as a bank nurse across wards and departments as part of the multidisciplinary team, in a variety of clinical settings to deliver the highest quality care to our patients, in line with our trust values

As an accountable bank nurse you will be responsible for delivering excellent care to an allocated group of patients providing total patient care, for each clinical area you work on.

Working for our organisation

Our trust has around 10,000 staff serving 1.6 million patients. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.

Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers' money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.

Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

We offer a variety of bank shifts both days, nights and weekends across all our sites with competitive hourly rates. Our long day and night shift are paid at 11.5 hours.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder is responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care.

He/she is expected to teach unqualified staff.

The post holder will be expected to liaise appropriately
with all key members of the multi-disciplinary team and
service users related patients

Person specification

Royal Free World Class Values

Essential criteria

• Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values

Education & professional Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Nurse/ODP
• Recognised Post Graduate Theatre Course ENB176

Desirable criteria

• Mentorship Course (e.g. ENB 998, D32 D33) or assessor course or demonstrated willingness to enrol

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant experience in Orthopaedic scrub and circulating practice (at Band 5 or above)

Desirable criteria

• Experience in managing junior staff (HCA/ students) including appraisal, performance, absence, selection and recruitment

• Covid-19 Vaccination

  Getting vaccinated, and getting a booster, remains the best defence against COVID-19.
  We encourage and support staff to get COVID-19 vaccine and a booster dose as and when they are eligible.

• AT* - Apprenticeship Training. Where AT* is entered next to the job title indicates that this vacancy is for an apprenticeship role.
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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

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• FR (PDF, 118.3KB)