Theatre Practitioner

This is a theatre practitioner post at Peterborough City Hospital, within the theatres of North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust, covering General Surgery, Urology and Emergency surgery. The work centres on delivering safe, evidence-based perioperative care as part of a team, and building on existing theatre knowledge. Theatre experience is desirable rather than essential, and the hospital's 18 theatres cover a wide range of specialities.

Registration as a Registered Nurse or Operating Department Practitioner is required.

• Deliver safe, high-quality, clinically effective and evidence-based perioperative care
• Work within a diverse theatre team that supports each other
• Develop and enhance the quality of care in the perioperative environment
• Work in General Surgery, Urology and Emergency surgery across the hospital's 18 theatres
• Care for patients across the wider theatre specialities, from trauma and orthopaedics to obstetrics

• Registration as a Registered Nurse or Operating Department Practitioner

• Working effectively as a team member
• Coping well with change

• IT skills
• Competence in scrub and circulating clinical skills
• Good customer care skills
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work under pressure in adverse situations
• Identifying problems, reporting faults and recommending solutions

• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Commitment to lifelong learning
• Awareness of the importance of risk management
• Awareness of patients' needs intraoperatively

• 998, mentorship or equivalent
• Assessing qualification for NVQ students D32/33 or A1 Award
• 176, 183, N33 or other perioperative care qualification
• Training and assessing ability, such as mentorship, 998 or 730
• Theatre experience
• Awareness of broader issues within health care and the NHS
• Ability to interpret data and audit information

• Ongoing professional development support
• Robust induction programme for new starters in theatres