Bank Perioperative Practitioner

**Anaesthetic & Recovery Perioperative Practitioner | Anaesthetics | Recovery | Bank | Southend | Flexible working hours | Competitive rates**

Spire Wellesley Hospital has an opportunity for an Anaesthetic/Recovery Perioperative Practitioner to join our experienced and dynamic team. This is a Bank position working adhoc shifts.

Spire Wellesley offers comprehensive private hospital services in a comfortable and relaxed environment to patients from across Essex. We believe it's our people that really set us apart, from the very best medical professionals, to our attentive and highly experienced support staff.

The Wellesley has 3 Theatres (2 laminar flow) and an endoscopy unit, a 33 bedded Surgical Ward covering a wide variety of specialties including Orthopaedics, Bariatrics, General Surgery, Vascular, Plastics, Gynae, Ophthalmology, Spinal, Urology and ENT. We have had a recent Theatre refurbishment to further upgrade our theatre environment and bringing innovative technology to our hospital.

**Contract Type**:Bank

**Duties and responsibilities**:

- To provide exemplary planned care for patients and assist in the management and organisation of care provision in the operating theatre.
- Prepare the anaesthetic room for surgery in relation to equipment and supplies required for specific procedures.
- Ensure the Patient Record is completed in a timely and accurate way
- Perform anaesthetic duties across a range of specialties.
- Supporting in assessing patient’s health and well-being across a complex and changing caseload
- Assist in the delivery of care to meet the patient’s needs in an extremely busy department
- Prepping the recovery bays and of course, looking after patients after their surgery
- Provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information

**Who we're looking for**:

- You will be a HCPC registered ODP or an NMC registered Nurse with no restrictions.
- Anaesthetic experience is essential.
- Recovery experience is essential.
- Excellent communication and organisation is key to continue our high standards of patient care.
- You will be working across different specialties and flexibility is required.

**Benefits**:

- Bank colleagues are paid weekly
- We offer competitive rates to our bank colleagues who work on a flexible basis, often to cover busy periods, sickness, or annual leave
- Unsocial Enhancements, dependent upon shift pattern worked (won’t be applicable for all)
- Access to Spire Healthcare pension
- Access to Blue Light Card discounts
- Smart spending discounts (in addition to Blue Light discounts) via ‘Spire for You’
- Wellbeing Centre access via ‘Spire for You'
- Free uniform
- Free DBS
- Full induction, including mandatory training updates
- Opportunities for further training and progression into permanent posts
- Knowledge, support and guidance through your recruitment journey from Spire’s specialist Resourcing TeamWe offer competitive rates to our bank colleagues who work on a flexible basis, often to cover busy periods, sickness or annual leave.

**Our Values**

We are extremely proud of our heritage in private healthcare and of our values as an organisation:

- Driving clinical excellence
- Doing the right thing
- Caring is our passion
- Keeping it simple
- Delivering on our promises
- Succeeding and celebrating together

We commit to our employee’s well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward.

**_For us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people. _**

Our people are our difference; it's their dedication, warmth and pursuit of excellence that sets Spire Healthcare apart.

Spire Healthcare is a leading independent hospital group in the United Kingdom and the largest in terms of revenue. From 39 hospitals and 8 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland, Spire Healthcare provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care.