Operating Department Orderly - Broadgreen

Job description

Job responsibilities

Transferring patients between ward and theatre, assisting in transferring patient safely on to operating table.

Wait with patients in the anaesthetic room until operating department practitioner or nurse receive the patient.

Lifting patients and moving them between beds, trolleys and special tables.Preparing and maintaining patient trolleys.

Moving equipment between wards/departments and Theatres.

Receiving, sorting, and distributing appropriately, stock and supplies, including pharmacy, inline with stock rotation guidance.

Disposing of sharps boxes and waste.

Providing messenger and delivery service for the Directorate.

Transporting bodies and amputated limbs to the mortuary.

Maintain the common room in tidy state.

Take active role in provision of a soiled/clean instruments and equipment collection/delivery service.

Assisting in the cleaning, packing and delivery of instruments and equipment within and outside the directorate, including TSSU in the theatre department.

Maintain a regular check on both changing rooms, ensuring that sufficient suits/dresses and footwear are available and dirty linen and rubbish bags are emptied.

Collect and wash dirty shoes in female and male changing rooms and give out shoes to doctors and visitors.

Give out new shoes to theatre personnel.

Allocate lockers to doctors, nurses, technicians and other theatre personnel, maintaining accurate records regarding locker allocation.

Restock scrub rooms with gowns, towels and keep tidy.

Sign as witness when goods received and work completed.

Taking an active role in the maintenance of equipment, ensuring that equipment for repair is taken out of commission and paperwork completed appropriately for medical engineering.

Cleaning theatres and assisting with cleaning within the department. This to include wall washing, operating lights and tables.

Changing and replacing medical gas cylinders.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• NVQ2 or equivalent.

Skills

Essential

• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
• Good communication skills.

Other

Essential

• Committed to high standards of patient care.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Broadgreen Hospital

Thomas Drive

Liverpool

L14 3LB

Employer's website

https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)