Newly Qualified Operating Department Practitioner

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Job Overview
Are you a Newly Qualified
Operating Department Practitioner or a third year Student Operating Department Practitioner due to qualify in the next 6 months?
At North Bristol NHS Trust we currently have 34 theatres and a further 4 theatres in the new Bristol Surgical Centre. The theatres are supported by 72 medirooms and 4 traditional PACU facilities.

We are a Major Trauma Centre covering a range of specialties including Plastics & Breast, Urology, General, Gynaecology & Obstetrics, Metabolic & GI, Elective Orthopaedic, Neuro & Spinal, Vascular, Interventional Radiology, Emergency & Trauma.

We are a well-established team with excellent support structures available to facilitate your preceptorship and career progression. You should be on target or complete your ODP programme within the next 6 months or already have your HCPC PIN / be waiting for your PIN.

You will have experienced a range of anaesthetic, scrub and PACU placements during your training and have demonstrated your ability to provide the best quality of perioperative care possible.

We Can Offer

• Face to face or online interviews
• Single specialty or dual specialty rotations
• Full time or part time hours
• Engagement from the Perioperative Education from your job offer, during your induction and throughout your preceptorship period
• Clinical support
• Ongoing education and training from our Practice Facilitators
• Wellbeing support

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the role will be dependent on the specialty you are working within. Please refer to the Job Descriptions and Person Specifications attached to this job role.

Working for our organisation

North Bristol NHS Trust employs over 12,000 staff providing healthcare to the residents of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset from our award-winning hospital building at Southmead. We are the regional Major Trauma Centre, and an internationally recognised centre of excellence in a range of services and major specialities. Our vision is that by enabling our teams to be the best that they can be, we will provide exceptional healthcare, personally delivered.

We commit to treating each patient as an individual with respect and dignity, aiming to deliver excellent clinical outcomes and a first-class experience for everyone who uses our services.

North Bristol NHS Trust values all people as individuals. We aim to be an anti-discriminatory organisation and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We welcome applicants from all underrepresented groups.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
For a full overview of the Job Description and Person Specification, please refer to the PDF documents attached as an additional documents to this advert.
Knowledge, Training, Experience And Skills Required
The post holder must be an Operating Department Practitioner who can demonstrate the following:

• Effective communication skills, verbal & written, to include report writing and record keeping.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with patients and multidisciplinary team.
• Effective computer / IT skills and expectation to develop these in line with the needs of the service.
• Ability to undertake shift work (flexible options available)
• Contribution to team development
• Sound knowledge of the guidelines set out in the NMC / HCPC code of professional conduct and current perioperative issues
• Excellent organisational skills, proven ability to problem solve and remain calm under pressure

Person specification

Education/Training/Qualifications
Essential criteria

• Registered ODP or student due to qualify

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of ongoing professional development

Work Experience

Essential criteria

• Has completed a variety of specialties during the ODP training

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
Essential criteria

• Effective communication skills, verbal & written, to include report writing and record keeping.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with patients and multidisciplinary team
• Effective computer / IT skills and expectation to develop these in line with the needs of the service

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The successful applicant(s) will normally commence at the minimum of the scale unless they have previous NHS service at the same band. Progression through the scale is by annual increments.

At North Bristol Trust (NBT), we know diverse and inclusive environments lead to happier and healthier teams and improved patient care and outcomes. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are currently underrepresented in NBT's workforce at Band 8a and above. These include people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people and LGBTQIA+ people.

Please note that stringent pre-employment checks are undertaken on all successful applicants prior to commencement in post.