Assistant Theatre Practitioner

3 weeks ago

Cringleford, United Kingdom Meridian Business Support Full time
Assistant Theatre Practitioner   
Norwich
Up to £27,596 pro rata 
We're recruiting for a dedicated Assistant Theatre Practitioner to join our client based in Norwich.
This exciting opportunity is for a Band 4 Assistant Practitioner to work alongside the established Theatre teams, providing support to the current Registered Theatre Practitioners to provide safe high quality care to all our patients. 
Assistant Theatre Practitioners (ATP) compliment the work of the perioperative team working with Surgeons, Anaesthetists and Registered Practitioners to ensure that every operative procedure is risk averse and patients are provided with safe, dignified and effective care.
Duties and responsibilities
To assist the perioperative team to provide exemplary care within the operating suite in the role of perioperative surgical support including scrub duties for cases deemed to be within the workers competence
The assistant theatre practitioner (ATP) role will assist in providing a safe, high quality environment for the carrying out of surgical procedures. The role is to perform a scrub practitioner role in minor to intermediate surgery and will also include circulatory duties for all aspects of surgery. Once the ATP is scrubbed, the delegated registered practitioner must ensure that they remain within the same theatres supervising the ATP until the case is complete.
The ATP provides skilled assistance to the surgeon in the operating theatre within the sterile field.  The term ‘skilled assistance’ is limited to the handling of instrumentation, maintenance of the sterile field and completion of necessary risk assurance processes associated with the operative procedure.  The ‘skilled assistance’ does not extend to activities associated with the role of ‘advanced scrub practitioner’.
Assistant Theatre Practitioner Requirements:
Understanding of the scope of the role of the ATP in context of the team and organisation, and how the role contributes to service development
Experience in the acute environment
Good level of literacy 
Basic awareness of health, safety and hygiene 
Flexible working within shift duties 
Educated to a minimum of level 5 Foundation degree level specific to ATP role
Able to work as part of a multidisciplinary team
Commitment to lifelong learning
Good interpersonal skills
Awareness of infection control
Meridian Business Support is a recruitment specialist acting on behalf of our client as an Employment Agency for this vacancy

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