Staff Nurse​/ODP - Anaesthetics

This Staff Nurse/ODP post sits in the anaesthetics team at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, providing perioperative care to babies, children and young people having surgery. The work centres on preparing anaesthetic equipment, supporting anaesthetists through induction and emergence, and monitoring patients throughout their surgical journey. It suits nurses or operating department practitioners who will also reassure children and families in a specialist paediatric theatre setting.

Fit depends on NMC or HCPC registration, and nurses must hold a Level 7 anaesthetic course qualification.

• Prepare, check and maintain anaesthetic equipment, airway devices, monitoring systems and clinical supplies
• Assist anaesthetists during induction, maintenance and emergence from anaesthesia
• Monitor patients' wellbeing throughout the perioperative journey
• Support the safe administration of anaesthesia within your scope of practice
• Anticipate the needs of the anaesthetic team
• Keep accurate clinical documentation
• Follow infection prevention and control procedures
• Respond promptly to changing clinical situations and emergencies
• Give reassurance and emotional support to children and their families
• Work closely with anaesthetists, surgeons, theatre, recovery, nursing and multidisciplinary colleagues
• Maintain clinical competencies and take responsibility for own professional development
• Support students and colleagues and contribute to a positive learning culture

• Anaesthetic course qualification at Level 7 (for NMC registered nurses)

• NMC registration as a nurse appropriate to clinical speciality, or HCPC registration as an Operating Department Practitioner

• Commitment to GOSH values