Theatre Practitioner – Scrub & Recovery

• Strive for the continuous improvements in the delivery of high-quality patient focused care.
• To have a clear understanding of how this post contributes to the achievement of the Trust's vision and EXCEL values and behave in a way that reflects these.
• Assist in the provision of assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating the care of patients in the perioperative environment.
• Being sensitive to our patients and staff needs for courtesy, dignity and privacy and always ensuring a friendly environment.
• As skills develop, manage the Theatre area in the absence of the Team Leaders, maintain safe staffing levels, ensuring that polices are always adhered to, and the Senior Theatre team remain updated.
• Assists the Professional Development Team in the management of preceptorship of newly qualified staff, return to practice staff and the mentorship of Nursing /ODP students and theatre support workers.

• Maintaining a safe and clean environment within the clinical area in accordance with the Trusts policies and guidelines.
• Deliver a high standard of perioperative care based upon a sound evidence base.
• Provide skilled clinical assistance to the surgical, anaesthetic and recovery teams.
• Maintaining timely and accurate patient care documentation, ensuring that confidentiality is respected.

• Ensure that adequate resources are available to meet the needs of the patients and contribute to cost improvement programmes.
• Contribute to the maintenance of appropriate stock levels and have an awareness of materials management.
• Ensure that all equipment for patient use is kept in good working order in line with current Regulations.
• Ensure that adequate skill mix is available to meet the needs of the patients. If deficits are unavoidable, contact the appropriate Senior Staff for support.

• Have a positive attitude to continuing professional development to enhance knowledge, skills and attitudes needed for safe and effective perioperative practice.
• Participate in Trust Appraisal System.
• Possess a clear understanding of Clinical Governance in relation to standards of care, support of colleagues and audit of given care.
• Participate in the utilisation, evaluation and conduct of audit and research.
• Contribute to preceptoring, mentoring and assessing of colleagues and students in placement.

• Ensures that the Team Leader/Senior Team Leader is informed of anyprofessional concerns at the earliest opportunity.
• Ensure that Revalidation requirements for NMC/HCPC Registration are adhered.

• Assist senior colleagues with duty rostering.
• Having an awareness of skill mix and its appropriateness in maintaining service needs.

• Provide on-call/stand-by cover as necessitated by departmental needs.
• During night duty, it may be required to call in a second team.
• Pre-check the operating lists (all specialties competent in), to ensure that any special prosthesis required has been ordered.
• Provide cover for extra-theatre activities e.g. maternity, cardiac arrest team, trauma team, external transfers, x-ray.
• Be able to cannulate and administer intravenous drugs.
• Be able to catheterise male and female patients.

Essential

• Minimum of 12 months post registration within the Perioperative environment
• Significant Experience Scrub Practitioner within Orthopaedic
• Strong knowledge of orthopaedic instrumentation, implants and surgical techniques
• Ability to anticipate the needs of the surgical team and maintain a safe, efficient surgical site
• Excellent understanding of Infection Control, patient safety and perioperative standards
• Strong organisational and time management skills
• Recovery experience
• Registered General Nurse and / or Registered Operating Department Practitioner

Desirable

• Mentoring & Assessing Qualification
• Ability to have positive working relationships
• Able to demonstrate clinical knowledge, skills and expertise
• Provide and receive complex and sensitive information, understanding the barriers to effective communication