Theatre Assistant

4 weeks ago


Ipswich, United Kingdom East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

We are looking for motivated, enthusiastic and flexible individuals to join our Operating Theatres Unit within East Theatres.

You will join a friendly and extremely flexible team, who require you to demonstrate a positive attitude and a desire to learn. You will be fully supported by experienced Theatre Practitioners allowing you to build confidence within orthopaedic theatres, and will be given every opportunity to further develop your skills and career.

You will undergo a training programme incorporating all essential competencies to enable the delivery of quality peri-operative patient care.

Whilst given the benefits of specialising in orthopaedic surgery, you will support other operating suites across the theatres and anaesthetic department.

Main duties of the job

You will provide support and assistance within the operating department teams. You will contribute to the support and care of patients under the direction of registered members of the clinical team. It is a direct patient focus role, where you will collect patients for theatre and assist the register staff to prepare the patient for their surgery. You will support in theatre to providing care to patients and support the scrub practitioner to have the necessary equipment need for surgery. We run a 7 day service and the applicant will be expected to work weekends to cover the trauma service.

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Relevant work or life experience with evidence of significance to post

Desirable

Evidence of relevant past employment record linked to health care

Qualifications

Essential

Evidence of ability to learn

Desirable

Relevant health care study or courses

Knowledge

Essential

Evidence of an appropriate understanding of personal needs of patients Team working

Desirable

Knowledge of Health Care profession Evidence of desire to progress within a health care setting
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