Job summary
Employer heading
Theatre Practitioner
Band 5
Job overview
Theatre Practitioner
Band 5
Permanent
Full 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?Ìý
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 HospitalsÌý 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.
ÌýAs 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 inÌý Aintree Theatres, which may include
Main A theatreÌý
- 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
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Working for our organisation
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.Ìý
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.
Ìýis 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.ÌýÌýis home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation.ÌýÌýspecialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. TheÌýÌýis 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 theirÌý.
Detailed job description and main 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 criteria
- Range of clinical experience in theatre practice
Desirable criteria
- Teaching and assessing / Mentorship (or willing to undertake
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RGN/ODP
- Diploma/ Degree
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of quality and change in the clinical setting
- Basic knowledge and understanding of professional and NHS issues.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Clare Grant
- Job title
- Main C Speciality Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 529 2571
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