Nors Perioperative Practitioner

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 for
retrieving organs from deceased donors. NORS teams are made up of highly skilled healthcare professionals led by a senior Transplant
surgeon.

The healthcare professionals who undertake NORS perioperative roles undergo competency based training following an agreed national
curriculum which includes e-learning, face to face education and mentored practice. Final competence is assessed and signed off by the Oxford
NORS 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 scrub
practitioners and new technologies. The post holder will be performing either role during a retrieval procedure. Two perioperative professionals
are 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 holder
will work flexibly alongside team members to meet the needs of the service.

An ability to undertake shift patterns including weekends and on-calls
are an essential to this post. There is off site working and long travel times to reach many donor hospitals

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 this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and 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 the OUH YouTube channel.