NORS Perioperative Practitioner
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Job summary
The Oxford Abdominal Organ Retrieval Team is one of 10 teams in the UK commissioned to take part in the National Organ Retrieval Service(NORS). NORS is a key component of the Organ Donation and Transplantation infrastructure by providing a national 24 hour service forretrieving organs from deceased donors. NORS teams are made up of highly skilled healthcare professionals led by a senior Transplantsurgeon.
Main duties of the job
The healthcare professionals who undertake NORS perioperative roles undergo competency based training following an agreed nationalcurriculum which includes e-learning, face to face education and mentored practice. Final competence is assessed and signed off by the OxfordNORS perioperative lead and the Clinical Lead for Organ Retrieval.We are recruiting an enthusiastic professional to a post that combines the roles of perfusion and preservation of organs, theatre scrubpractitioners and new technologies. The post holder will be performing either role during a retrieval procedure. Two perioperative professionalsare required per procedure.The post holder will provide technical support to the retrieval team and participate in the 24 hour on-call rota for organ retrieval. The post holderwill work flexibly alongside team members to meet the needs of the service.
An ability to undertake shift patterns including weekends and on-callsare an essential to this post. There is off site working and long travel times to reach many donor hospitals
Candidates are very welcome to visit the Departments and are invited to contact: Miss Isabel Quiroga, Clinical Lead for Organ Retrieval on isabel.quiroga@ouh.nhs.uk and/or Mrs Angela Losekann, NORS Perioperative Practitioner Team Leader on angela.losekann@ouh.nhs,uk
About us
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call thisDelivering Compassionate Excellenceand its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via theOUH YouTube channel.
Many of our recruitment programmes useValue Based Interviewingto identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visitwww.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values
Details
Date posted
13 July 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£35,392 to £42,618 a year per annum pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
321-SWR-5230201-B6-PUB
Job locations
Churchill hospital
old road,
Oxford
OX3 7LE
Employer details
Employer name
Oxford University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Churchill hospital
old road,
Oxford
OX3 7LE
Employer's website
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