Operating Department Practitioner

4 weeks ago

Carterton, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom Royal Air Force Full time
Job Description

As an Operating Department Practitioner with the Royal Air Force, you will be an integral member of the theatre team providing peri-operative patient care. Your responsibilities will include acting as a multifunctional part of anaesthetic, scrub, and recovery teams, providing resuscitation and first surgical assistance, and reprocessing instruments and other reusable medical devices in the Sterile Services Department.

Key Responsibilities
  • Act as a multifunctional part of anaesthetic, scrub, and recovery teams
  • Provide resuscitation and first surgical assistance
  • Reprocess instruments and other reusable medical devices in the Sterile Services Department
Requirements
  • Be aged 17 – 47 years old (Must attest before 48th birthday)
  • Be a citizen of the United Kingdom or the Republic of Ireland, holder of dual UK/other nationality or have been a Commonwealth citizen since birth (with 'right to work' immigration status)
  • Commit to minimum 12 years service
  • Meet the health and fitness criteria
  • Pass a Fitness test - Details below
Training and Career

You will receive basic and specialist training in your field and we even provide the option to pay for your education. The experience you gain with the RAF will equip you to work at the top of your field, both in the UK and overseas.

Phase One Training

The course is designed to help you adjust to a military environment. As well as fitness and military training, you'll also learn about the RAF lifestyle.

Phase Two Training

If you are joining with a professional qualification recognised by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) you will, following completion of Recruit Training, be posted into your first Unit.

If you are joining with appropriate A levels/Higher grade or equivalent your specialist training will start with a 3-year BSc (Hons) in Operating Department Practice at the Defence School of Health Education at the Birmingham City University. This course will incorporate both theory and practical placements at the university and local hospitals.

First Tour

This will be at either RCDM Birmingham, RCDM Oxford or JHG (SW) in Portsmouth.

Ongoing Training

There are many opportunities to develop and broaden your skills. These include Surgical First Assistant (SFA) to Advanced Life Support provider and instructor along with many military medical courses.

You can complete further modules through the Defence School of Health Education to gain your BSc (Hons) Defence Health Care Studies.

Career Progression

Qualified entrants are promoted to Air Specialist (Class 1) (AS1) backdated to their second day in service. Further promotion to the rank of Corporal and Sergeant is on a time promotion basis.

Transferable Skills

The qualifications you can earn are as valuable in the civilian world as they are in the RAF. If in the future you wish to leave the Service your experience, further clinical training and managerial dexterity will make you highly competitive within the civilian job market.

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