Theatre Nurse Operating Department Practitioner

Northumbria NHS Foundation Trust has an exciting opportunity for you to work full time, within our orthopaedic scrub team. The theatre department has a state of the art facilities across the Trust. We have twenty seven Adult and Obstetrics theatres within Northumbria NHS Foundation Trust covering a diverse range of both elective and emergency work in a variety of specialties including General Surgery, Robotics, Trauma and Orthopaedics and Obstetrics. We have position at Theatres at North Tyneside General hospital. Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

• Delivering excellent standards of care and providing patient support Elective Orthopaedic and trauma surgery , advocating on behalf of the dependent patient.
• Undertaking the Scrub practitioner 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, 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. For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Nichola Gray Job title: Theatre Team Manager Email address: nichola.gray@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk Telephone number: 0191 2934168