Theatre Nurse/Operating Department Practitioner

A full time vacancy has arisen for Registered Nurses or Operating Department Practitioners (ODP) to join our theatre scrub teams within the Elective Theatre department at North Tyneside General Hospital within general surgery scrub.

Previous theatre experience would be an advantage, however a comprehensive training package is in place for newly qualified staff, or those new to the theatre environment.

The successful candidate should be motivated and enthusiastic and committed to delivering safe, high quality care. North Tyneside General Hospital is a unique hospital, with ongoing high levels of excellent patient experience and care. Informal visits are highly recommended.

• Delivering excellent standards of care and providing patient support throughout the peri-operative phase, advocating on behalf of the dependent patient.
• Undertaking the scrubbed and circulating role, ensuring safe environment and practice is maintained.
• Working with, and supporting other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
• Preparation and monitoring of the environment of care, and equipment.
• Supervising junior colleagues, including unregistered staff and students.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.

• To assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care under the direction of the senior nurse / senior ODP
• To assist in the provision of nursing care and maintain high clinical standards
• To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct
• Develop over time and contribute to the management of a clinical area and take charge in the absence of Senior Nurse/ODP
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust.
• This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others(b) uses coachingto promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates teamworking and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.