Job summary
Theatre PractitionerBand 5PermanentFull Time - 37.5 hours per week
Are you an experienced theatre practitioner looking for a new challenge? Are you a newly qualified practitioner looking to develop and enhance your skills? Do you enjoy the challenges of working in a dynamic patient care environment?
Liverpool University Hospitals - Aintree site are looking to recruit full and part time Operating Department Practitioners and Registered Nurses who wish to develop their skills in theatre. You will have drive and enthusiasm to learn new skills, whilst gaining further qualifications.
Main duties of the job
The Aintree site has 20 operating theatres across four departments which cover a wide variety of surgical specialties. The trust is part of the Major Trauma Centre Collaborative (MTCC), a partnership between Liverpool University Hospitals and The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust and is the regional Major Trauma Centre for the North West, providing the full range of services and clinical expertise for patients who are severely injured from all areas of the region.
As a single site major Trauma Centre for the North West we provide a 24/7 emergency service and staff are required to participate in this cover.
The successful post holder will be based in Aintree Theatres, which may include
Main A theatre
- Major Trauma and Orthopaedics:
- Emergency theatre
Main B Theatre:
- Routine and oncology ENT
- MFU elective and trauma
Main C Theatres
- Vascular surgery
- General surgery
- Urology surgery
- Endocrine surgery
Elective Care Centre Theatres:
- General Surgery
- Orthopaedics
- Digestive Diseases
- Urology
- Breast
- Ophthalmology
- Vascular
- Dermatology
- ENT
- Maxillo Facial Surgery
About us
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospitalis the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility.Broadgreen Hospitalis home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation.Liverpool Women's Hospitalspecialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. TheRoyal Liverpool University Hospitalis the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
For roles at Liverpool Women's, visit theircareers page.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Perform comprehensive assessment of patient care needs.
- Plan, implement and evaluate care according to changing health care needs.
- Supervise and support team members.
- Collect, collate and report information, maintaining accurate patient records and theatre documentation.
- Involve multidisciplinary team and where possible patients, carers /relatives in the planning and delivery of care.
- Establish and maintain effective communication with multi- disciplinary team and patients carers/relatives.
- Recognise and respond appropriately to urgent and emergency situations.
- Seek/act on advice from team leader/speciality leader, or relevant other.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Perform comprehensive assessment of patient care needs.
- Plan, implement and evaluate care according to changing health care needs.
- Supervise and support team members.
- Collect, collate and report information, maintaining accurate patient records and theatre documentation.
- Involve multidisciplinary team and where possible patients, carers /relatives in the planning and delivery of care.
- Establish and maintain effective communication with multi- disciplinary team and patients carers/relatives.
- Recognise and respond appropriately to urgent and emergency situations.
- Seek/act on advice from team leader/speciality leader, or relevant other.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Range of clinical experience in theatre practice
Desirable
- Teaching and assessing / Mentorship (or willing to undertake
Qualifications
Essential
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of quality and change in the clinical setting
- Basic knowledge and understanding of professional and NHS issues.
Skills
Essential
- Ability to communicate in a variety of settings with patients of varying levels of understanding and relatives as appropriate
- Able to maintain accurate patient records
- Basic IT skills
- Able to develop knowledge and skills to perform and meet all requirements of role
- Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues in the health care setting
- Effective verbal & written communication skills
- Able to work with limited supervision
- Able to work as a member of a team
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Range of clinical experience in theatre practice
Desirable
- Teaching and assessing / Mentorship (or willing to undertake
Qualifications
Essential
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of quality and change in the clinical setting
- Basic knowledge and understanding of professional and NHS issues.
Skills
Essential
- Ability to communicate in a variety of settings with patients of varying levels of understanding and relatives as appropriate
- Able to maintain accurate patient records
- Basic IT skills
- Able to develop knowledge and skills to perform and meet all requirements of role
- Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues in the health care setting
- Effective verbal & written communication skills
- Able to work with limited supervision
- Able to work as a member of a team
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.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
