Band 5 ODP​/Anaesthetic Nurse | Health NHS Foundation Trust

Overview

You will be confident in supporting the Anaesthetist and preparing a range of medical devices, communicating to the wider theatre team and putting the patient at the heart of everything that you do.

Those wishing to dual role or keep/gain your preferred skills in scrub or recovery we can try and facilitate this within our teams.

We now benefit from a state‑of‑the‑art, digital, fully electronic patient record system that incorporates the entire patient journey.

You will be driven to ensure the standards of care you deliver are effective, current and evidence‑based and enjoy working with your team to ensure the smooth running of the department.

We are committed to the ongoing professional development for our staff, facilitating a mandatory preceptorship programme for newly qualified staff, offering support from your induction process through to in‑house and external courses, and promoting multiskilling into scrub and/or recovery for practitioners who wish to do so. A dedicated practice development team and supportive management assist you in growing your career.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire. In addition to delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a wider area.

We have three main hospitals – Heatherwood in Ascot, Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley and Wexham Park near Slough. Our core values and the behaviours that support them guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in how they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other:
Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future
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We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park, with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital’s NHS staff to provide care to patients in all specialties.

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy. In short, you will be a key member of the peri‑operative team ensuring that patients receive excellent standards of care, supporting the Anaesthetist, preparing devices, and communicating effectively with the wider theatre team. The vacancy is to work within the anaesthetic support team, however we positively encourage practitioners who would like the opportunity to dual role either in Scrub or PACU.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic, innovative and highly motivated registered ODP or RGN with post‑registration Anaesthetic qualification, who have a wide range of clinical skills. Whether you are an experienced practitioner or a recently qualified ODP, we would love to hear from you.

We are a friendly team with a family feel. We balance hard‑working shifts with a busy trust‑wide social scene, which includes trips to the coast, theatres and Christmas markets to name a few.

Happy to hear from ODPs/anaesthetic nurses who have recently qualified.