Anaesthetic Practitioner

**Previous applicants need not apply**

As a registered Anaesthetic Practitioner, you will be an accountable and autonomous practitioner to act in the best interests of your patients at all times and take personal responsibility for your actions and decisions. To be responsible for patient assessment, planning of care, giving and supervising safe and compassionate care, and evaluating the effectiveness of care.

The post holder will be a NMC / HCPC registered practitioner or nurse who will assess, plan, implement and evaluate high quality, safe and compassionate care for patients in the perioperative setting. This care will be facilitated utilising evidence based perioperative standards, trust policies as well as local and national guidelines (e.g. NICE).

The post holder will be expected to work with the perioperative multidisciplinary team (including Anaesthetists and Surgeons) to provide effective care within the Anaesthetics, Scrub and Post Anaesthetic care disciplines, in line with scope of practice and departmental need.

The post holder will support the Theatre Leadership Team to ensure standards of practice and care quality are upheld; this includes acting as a role model, supporting the learning of others and contributing to the development and implementation of improvement ideas.

Our STAR values are at the heart of everything we do. You can expect to see them in the way we act and the way we treat each other. Our values make us who we are.

ServiceWe will put our patients first

TeamworkWe will work together

AmbitionWe will aspire to provide the best service

RespectWe will act with integrity
1. Assess, plan, and implement high quality, safe, compassionate and effective perioperative care for patients, in line with scope of practice.
2. Ensure risk management / safety strategies, Trust policies and departmental procedures are adhered to in the delivery of patient care.
4. Ensure patient safety strategies (e.g., WHO surgical Safety / 5 steps to safer surgery) are implemented consistently and where appropriate, contribute to the development of new initiatives which support the improvement agenda.
5. Promote dignity and respect, ensuring the patient is cared for in a way that meets their expectations and maximises patient experience.
6. Maintain accurate, comprehensive and comprehensible records of care provision delivered in accordance with legislation, protocols and guidelines
7. Understand and commit to the professional expectations of registration (NMC / HCPC), ensuring clinical activities are undertaken within scope of practice.
8. Effectively communicate with patients, service users and all members of the multidisciplinary team in a collaborative and professional manner; implement different communication techniques / strategies when communicating sensitive information or where there are barriers to understanding.
9. Coordinate the clinical activity of the operating session, working with the multidisciplinary team to ensure perioperative care is safe, effective and delivered efficiently to promote utilisation of theatre capacity; this will involve day to day supervision of theatre staff.
10. Contribute to a positive learning experience by undertaking teaching activities to support the development of staff and students within the perioperative setting; this includes promoting good practice and providing supervision to learners.
11. Use professional knowledge to support clinical advice as well as the maintenance and improvement of perioperative standards.
12. Accountable for maintaining standards of practice within the perioperative environment, promoting a professional, patient centred approach to care provision.
13. Evaluate the effectiveness of care by conducting audits to inform future practice, Trust policies and departmental procedures.
14. Responsible for reporting clinical incidents and adverse events to senior staff, as well as completing incident reports (DATIX) to support timely investigation and resolution.
15. Maintain clinical practice by keeping up to date with local/national policies, developments and initiatives relevant to professional area; utilising knowledge to inform current and future practice.
16. Undertake Continuing Professional Development (CPD) activities commensurate to the role and scope of practice; maintain professional portfolio to support the assessment / achievement of CPD by relevant regulatory bodies (NMC / HCPC)
17. Encourage and facilitate the generation and implementation of new initiatives within the clinical environment to support improvement for the benefit of patients, service users and colleagues.
18. Responsible for identifying strategies to support personal and professional development; supported by line manager to achieve ambitions.

Please see full Job description and personal specification attached.