Detailed job description and main responsibilities

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Demonstrate effective communication as a core principle in providing effective care in the peri-operative setting.
• Provide perioperative care to patients as a circulating assistant in the surgical theatre environment, including the anaesthetic room, operating room, and recovery room.
• To maintain 100% mandatory training compliance at all times and inform line manager of any barriers to maintaining compliance.
• Maintain patient confidentiality.
• Maintain patient privacy and dignity.
• Act as an advocate to all patients, demonstrating safe and effective care.
• Recognise people’s differences and act in a non-discriminatory way.
• Promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion within the workplace.
• Participate in the transfer of patients to and from the operating theatre complex as and when required. Ensuring correct documentation e.g., patient notes are transferred. Collection of beds from wards as and when required by each theatre.
• Undertake local blood collection training. Take delivery and collection of blood products.
• Assist in receiving, handling, and dispatching clinical specimens or blood products.
• Handling and collection of gas cylinders and safe exchange of gas cylinders intraoperatively.
• Cleaning and stocking of patient trolleys.
• Collection from pharmacy when required.
• Getting the stock of linen supplies for theatre as and when required.
• Transfer of equipment to/from medical devices as required.
• Collection of C- arm as per the requirement of the list, from radiology when required.
• Document patient information on the theatre computer system and paper documentation when performing circulating duties.
• Participate within the five steps to safer surgery WHO checklist as a valued member of the multidisciplinary team.
• Participate in theatre cleaning schedules as described in formal schedules and keep accurate records.
• Prepare a clean environment in accordance with cleaning guidelines, Infection Control Policies and completion of relevant records.
• Remove clinical waste/ linen and sharps from theatre for collection.
• Ensure all stock items are stored in a safe, clean manner and that stock received is stored in an appropriate and timely manner. Ensure stock rotation.
• Prepare and provide surgical instruments and supplementary for the surgical team, for day of surgery and the next operating day.
• Participate in swab and instrument counts with a qualified practitioner to prevent retained surgical items. 
• Prepare any required medical devices for use, including the operating table, diathermy machine, suction devices, and surgical robot etc.
• Assist the decontamination co-ordinator in providing an effective TSSU service where required.
• Participate in on call rota.
• Recognise and respond to urgent/ or emergency situations within own role/ scope of practice.
• Undertake the Christie Care Certificate.
• Follow National Safety Standards for Invasive Procedures (NatSIPPs), Local Safety Standards for Invasive Procedures (LocSIPPs) and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)