Job summary
- Main area
- Recovery Room/Theatre.
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 27 hours per week
- Job ref
- 040-NMR277-0424
- Employer
- Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Woolos Hospital
- Town
- Newport
- Salary
- £28,834 - £35,099 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Recovery Nurse SWH
Band 5
If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.
Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
Exciting opportunities have arisen for Band 5 Theatre Recovery Nurse to join our Orthopaedic elective team at St Woolos Theatres.
We offer an elective only service from Monday to Friday.
We are a supportive, friendly department which is strongly centred on team work and patient care.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for highly motivated and enthusiastic staff members to provide optimum care to post-operative patients. The candidate will be required to work in our urology satellite unit also as part of the shift requirement.
The candidates must possess excellent communication and organisational skills with an ability to prioritise workloads. The candidate must have a great work ethic and competent in the safe management of post-operative care.
The ideal candidate will be expected to demonstrate commitment to their own personal and professional development and show keen interest in line with the clinical futures strategy of this Health Board. You may be required to work across ABUHB theatre sites if the needs of the service demand it.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- NMC Registered Nurse holding a post graduate OR Operating Department Practitioner registered with HCPC
- knowledge of the Recovery area
- Evidence of professional development that at least meets the minimum requirement of the post holder's professional body
- Mentorship qualification
Desirable criteria
- Degree level education or a willingness to work towards
Experience
Essential criteria
- Working within a hospital setting.
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience working in a critical care environment, theatre department or post-operative surgical setting
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good liaison, negotiating, persuasive, motivational, compassionate, empathic skills
- Ability to work efficiently in a team alongside different specialities.
- Ability to cope with distressing situations and challenging behaviours
- Able to respond to emergencies and prioritise care
- Ability to adapt to culture of change in practise if required
- IT literacy
- Able to assess, plan, deliver and evaluate individualised and evidence –based care
- Appreciation of audit and research methodologies
- Able to demonstrate a problem-solving approach.
Desirable criteria
- Appreciation of audit and research methodologies
- Able to demonstrate a problem-solving approach
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of the role of the recovery practitioner in a theatre environment
- Awareness of surgical stages and the patients journey through the theatre department
- Values and behaviours of the Trust framework
Desirable criteria
- An understanding of the importance of Informed consent guidelines
- Surgical safety procedures and guidelines NATSSIPS/LOCSSIPS
- Occupational health guidelines
- World Health Organisation Safer Surgery Guidelines
- Competent person training
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Good organisational skills
- Excellent communication skills. This will include providing and receiving complex, sensitive or contentious information.
- Ability to teach qualified and unqualified members of staff
- Willingness to develop personally and professionally
- Resilience and desire to continuously improve service provision.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to speak welsh
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel within a geographical area to meet the requirements of the post
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rachel Challenger
- Job title
- Senior Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01633 238403
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