Theatre Practitioner | Liverpool University Hospitals Nhs Foundation Trust

Are you an experienced Head & Neck Theatre Practitioner looking for a new challenge? Are you a newly qualified practitioner looking to develop and enhance your skills in the specialty of Head & Neck? Do you enjoy the challenges of working in a dynamic patient care environment?
Liverpool University Hospitals - Aintree site are looking to recruit full and part time Operating Department Practitioners and Registered Nurses who wish to develop their skills within the specialty of Head & Neck surgery. You will have drive and enthusiasm to become part of one of Europes biggest Head & Neck Centres which combines internationally recognised clinical, research and surgery strengths to deliver research-led improvements in the quality and safety of patient care.
Main duties of this post is for the area of Main B Theatres/Head & Neck Centre, although the Aintree site has 20 operating theatres across four departments which cover a wide variety of surgical specialties. The Trust is part of the Liverpool Head and Neck Centre (LHNC), Major Trauma Centre Collaborative (MTCC), a partnership between Liverpool University Hospitals and The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust and is the regional Major Trauma Centre for the North West, providing the full range of services and clinical expertise.
The post holders will need to be able to work as part of the multidisciplinary team helping to provide patients with the highest level of care as well as being able to work as an individual practitioner during their daily practice. As a single site major Trauma Centre for the North West we provide a 24/7 emergency service and staff will be required to participate in this cover when needed and upon reaching a level of competancy, to join the 'On Call' allocation which provides 24/7 emergency trauma surgery cover.
The departments include:
Main A theatre
• Major Trauma and Orthopaedics
• Emergency theatre
• Urology
Main B Theatre:
• Routine and oncology ENT
• Routine, oncology and trauma MFU
• Skull Base
• Orthognathic
Main C Theatre
• General surgery
• Upper and lower GI
• Breast
• Hepatobiliary surgery
Elective Care Centre Theatres:
• General Surgery
• Orthopaedics
• Digestive Diseases
• Urology
• Ophthalmology
• Vascular
• Dermatology
• ENT
• Maxillo Facial Surgery
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
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Perform comprehensive assessment of patient care needs.
Plan, implement and evaluate care according to changing health care needs.
Supervise and support team members.
Collect, collate and report information, maintaining accurate patient records and theatre documentation.
Involve multidisciplinary team and where possible patients, carers /relatives in the planning and delivery of care.
Establish and maintain effective communication with multi- disciplinary team and patients carers/relatives.
Recognise and respond appropriately to urgent and emergency situations.
Seek/act on advice from team leader/speciality leader, or relevant other.
Where the Practitioner holds a degree level operating department
qualification, they will provide a high standard of individualised care of the patient and demonstrate knowledgeable advanced clinical competence, beyond those associated with conventional Theatre roles. They will perform duties associated with that of a Surgical Assistant. This will be achieved whilst practicing within the parameters set by professional / Local Trust policies and guidelines. Further training in practice is compulsory, to develop from assisting for superficial elective cases to potentially all surgeries. This training will be supported by preceptorship with a comprehensive assessment process.
This advert closes on Friday 26 Jan 2024