Job overview

Would you like the opportunity to expand your skills, and be part of evolving and developing services?

We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Theatre Practitioner to take the next step in their career as a Senior Theatre Practitioner in our Main Theatres team at Colchester Hospital

In this post you will be the lead for our Emergency Surgery CEPOD theatre, however you may be required to provide cover for our other theatres of General/Laparoscopic, Vascular, Urology and Robotics.

For this role you will need to be proficient in scrubbing for a variety of surgical specialities including general/laparoscopic, urology and gynaecology. It is desirable for you to have vascular scrubbing experience.

You will need to effectively manage and develop a nursing team to provide professional and clinical leadership in the delivery of high quality, safe, cost effective care of patients across our department.

You will be fully supported in this post by the Clinical Lead to aid in your smooth transition into the role and for your professional development.

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic individual to use their broad knowledge of surgical procedures and associated instrumentation to provide patient centred care.

For this role, you will:

• Be keen to develop as a multi skilled theatre practitioner
• Use your passion for education and developing others
• Use your good organisational and clinical skills, and support clinical excellence by developing learning
• Help drive change and be progressive and innovative
• Assist in undertaking audit and research
• Use your excellent interpersonal and problem solving skills, communicating well with all staff members and external organisations
• Be part of collaborative working and actively supporting and liaising with other healthcare professionals in the organisation

Working for our organisation

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes. 

We are the largest NHS organisation in East Anglia, employing more than 12,000 staff. 

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options. 

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. 

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.   

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients. 

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.   

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