Band 5 Anaesthetic Nurse/Operating Department Practitioner

Job summary

Surgical Treatment Centre - Queen Mary's Hospital Roehampton

We are looking for enthusiastic staff to come and join our teams in Theatres in the Surgical Treatment Centre at Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton.

Providing excellent nursing care. As skills and competencies develop taking charge and actively participating in and contributing to the management of the theatre area or department on a regular basis. Supervising and mentoring junior staff.

This facility enables surgical teams to carry out many operations for a range of routine, day case procedures andhas been set up to rapidly develop provision of elective surgery through the use of efficient pathways, (GIRFT, 2020)

• To tackle the expanding waiting list
• To reduce the secondary impact of COVID-19 relating to morbidity associated with delayed surgery
• To provide an environment and pathway which enables patient to attend with confidence
• To meet patient preference for day surgery over inpatient care.

The 4 Operating Theatres will specialise in Day case:

• Orthopaedics
• Plastics
• Gynaecology
• Urology
• General Surgery
• Vascular (Veins)
• Ophthalmology
• Maxillofacial
• Renal

Main duties of the job

We are committed to providing Outstanding Care, Every Time to all our patients.

The development of the Surgical Treatment Centre has created a wide range of opportunities to work in Theatres, Recovery & Anaesthetics.

We will support your development every step of the way and make sure that you are armed with the skills you need to meet every challenge you will face by providing you with the highest standards of training and support on the job through:

• Regular meetings with your Senior Sister/Charge Nurse/Senior ODP
• Mentor support from your Senior Sister/Charge Nurse/Senior ODP during your induction and orientation
• Support from your Senior Sister/Charge Nurse/Senior ODP in the clinical area on shift
• Protected teaching time each month
• Practice Educator support
• Competency based In house training
• Opportunities to apply for funded specialist courses

In order to apply: You will need to be an RN1 or Registered ODP with relevant experience in Perioperative care. Demonstrate our Trust Values of being Excellent, Kind, Respectful and Responsible.

Successful post holder will already possess excellent communication skills and enjoy working in a small, busy and dedicated team.

We offer competitive staff bank rates for staff who wish to work additional hours.

About us

With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, we are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.The main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.As well as acute hospital services, St Georges provides a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.