Registered Anaesthetic Practitioners/Anaesthetic Assistants - ODP/RGN

Job summary

We are looking for enthusiastic team players to join our busy theatres team.

Are you excited about starting a new career in theatre and developing your role? We are recruiting registered anaesthetic practitioners (ODPs or Registered Nurses) to work within our operating Theatres at Somerset NHS Foundation Trust.

Let us know where you would like to work!! Choose either Musgrove Park Hospital or Yeovil District Hospital.

We have vacancies in Anaesthetics, in a range of specialties including Orthopaedics, ENT, Max fax, and Ophthalmology. This is an extremely exciting time to join the department due to the addition of a new purpose built Surgical Centre, planned for 2024. With state of the art facilities at our finger tips we aim to take our team to next level, and you with it!

Please note before application that you MUST be:

• An experienced theatre RGN with an Anaesthetic Assistant qualification
• A qualified/qualifying Operating Department Practitioner,

Main duties of the job

• Works as part of the clinical team providing direct patient care, primarily as an assistant to the anaesthetist
• Plans, implements, delivers and evaluates care given by self and other team members to patients and their relatives
• Assist in emergency situations and initiate emergency procedures in line with policy
• Act as the patients' advocate
• Liaise with all members of the multidisciplinary team
• Be clinically competent in all areas of practice relevant to the post
• Take direct responsibility for ensuring cleaning standards are maintained throughout the shift
• Ensure that Privacy and Dignity of patients is maintained at all times
• Collect patients from the wards and escort to theatre
• May take on extended roles such as cell salvage, following completion of required training and competency assessment
• Maintain accurate clinical records
• Works flexibly across the theatres as required
• Ensure that all quality initiatives within the nursing environment are adhered to and that the highest standards of care are maintained at all times.
• Communicate with patients, relatives and carers sensitive clinical information in an appropriate way
• Supervises junior colleagues
• Delivers training for one to one induction and ongoing training for new and temporary staff, mentorship for students and preceptorship for newly qualified staff
• The post holder will be required to manage conflicting priorities and may be required to switch tasks with little notice

About us

Benefits of working for us:

• Full NHS terms and conditions including a benefits package with competitive pay rates and increments.
• Access to the NHS Pension Scheme to which you and the Trust contribute
• A wide and diverse range of training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training
• The Trust supports a healthy work life balance and all staff have access to an Occupational Health Service to support you at work
• Dedicated well-being services for all employees
• Flexible working where possible
• Onsite nursery
• Discounts for local and national retailers

Would you like to work in one of the most desirable places within the UK?

As part of the benefits of working in Somerset you can soak up all that the idyllic countryside has to offer with our areas of outstanding beauty and stunning coastlines. You get to enjoy these perks whilst still only being a stone's throw away from bustling city centres like Bristol, Bath and Exeter and only two hours away from London.