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Anaesthetic Practitioner - North Bristol

Employer
North Bristol NHS Trust
Location
Bristol (GB)
Salary
£29,970 - £36,483 per annum
Closing date
10 Mar 2025
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Job Details

Job overview  

Are you an Operating Department Practitioner or Registered Nurse with an anaesthetic qualification looking for a role as an Anaesthetic Practitioner?

 At North Bristol NHS Trust we currently have 34 theatres, with a further 4 theatres in the new Elective Care Centre  launching in Spring 2025. The theatres are supported by 72 medirooms and 4 traditional PACU facilities. We are a Major Trauma Centre and cover a range of specialties including Plastics & Breast, Urology, General, Gynaecology & Obstetrics, Metabolic & GI, Elective Orthopaedic, Neuro & Spinal, Vascular, Interventional Radiology, Emergency & Trauma.

You will be joining a well-established team with excellent support structures available to facilitate your career progression. 

We can offer:

  • Online interviews
  • Full time or part time hours
  • Engagement from the Perioperative Education Team 
  • Clinical support 
  • Ongoing education and training from our Practice Facilitators
  • Wellbeing support

Suitable candidates should be either a Registered ODP or a Registered Nurse with a post basic Anaesthetic Nursing qualification.

Please talk to us about relocation! This role includes a relocation expenses package of up to £8,000 to assist with moving costs for eligible candidates. Please note that this is subject to relocation criteria being met. Contact us for more information.

Main duties of the job  

The successful candidate will:

  • Participate in all aspects of clinical operating department work, and provide a high standard of patient care and safety in accordance with the North Bristol NHS Trust philosophy and objectives, policies and legal requirements
  • Deputise for the Team Leader when required/experience allows
  • Be involved in the assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care and work within a flexible team structure involving a multi- disciplinary team  

Working for our organisation  

North Bristol NHS Trust employs over 12,000 staff providing healthcare to the residents of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset from our award-winning hospital building at Southmead.  We are the regional Major Trauma Centre, and an internationally recognised centre of excellence in a range of services and major specialities. Our vision is that by enabling our teams to be the best that they can be, we will provide exceptional healthcare, personally delivered. 

North Bristol NHS Trust values all people as individuals. We aim to be an anti-discriminatory organisation and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We welcome applicants from all underrepresented groups.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities 

  • Be competent in all aspects of anaesthetic technique and procedures.
  • Work as a skilled member of the perioperative team, and be responsible for the assessment of care given to patients within the operating theatre and other areas where an anaesthetic service is required.
  • Run theatre lists both efficiently and competently following policies and procedures.
  • Take responsibility in ensuring the safe, effective and efficient management of allocated resources within anaesthetics, including assisting with the planning of daily allocation of team members.
  • Be responsible for the care and maintenance of all anaesthetic equipment and consumable goods within your designated area. This responsibility will extend to all areas of the anaesthetic service and to inform the appropriate person of any stock/equipment requirements.
  • Take appropriate action in regards to faulty equipment as per Trust policy and participate in the ordering and training of new equipment
  • Ensure that the department is at all times clean and organised with sufficient supplies and equipment which are correctly cleaned, in working order and correctly stored.
  • Supervise the work of junior and unqualified colleagues in the assessment of patients and advise appropriately, providing specialist knowledge in assessing and interpreting acute and other patients conditions.
  • Take responsibility for personal and professional development, to be responsible for attending mandatory training sessions and to ensure that all policies and procedures are adhered to.
  • Support Theatre Manager in developing and reviewing policies and standards for the safe use of equipment and substances hazardous to health in the department
  • Have an understanding of scrub and circulating roles and to understand the responsibilities in these roles.

Person specification

Education/Training/Qualifications

Essential criteria

  • Registered ODP or Registered Nurse with recognised post graduate anaesthetic qualification
  • Evidence of ongoing professional development

Desirable criteria

  • Teaching and assessing qualification (998 or equivalent) or willing to undertake after 2 years post registration, general evidence of supporting learners

Work Experience

Essential criteria

  • Experience as a Anaesthetic Practitioner within an acute perioperative environment
  • Experience as a Registered Nurse (with anaesthetic qualification) or ODP across a range of surgical specialties
  • Evidence of having completed training for extended roles, i.e. IV drug administration, cannulation, venepuncture, ECGs, male catheterisation pump training.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

Essential criteria

  • Effective communication skills, verbal & written, to include report writing and record keeping.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills with patients and multidisciplinary team.
  • Ability to contribute to team development
  • Sound knowledge of the guidelines set out in the NMC / HCPC code of professional conduct and current perioperative issues
  • Excellent organisational skills, proven ability to problem solve and remain calm under pressure

 

Company

Our Trust is a regional centre for a number of specialist services including neurosurgery, renal medicine, plastics, burns and orthopaedics. We are also one of the two Major Trauma centres in the South West, servicing the Severn Network. Our ability to care for complex cases and interesting presentations enables our nurses and ODPs to expand their clinical skills; incorporating pioneering clinical developments and technology.

As part of our Trust, you’ll have access to unique multidisciplinary training delivered in-house within a purpose built simulation facility; our clinical simulation space. Our Trust has been awarded the Skills for Health Quality Mark for the standard of education and training we provide.

We support and care for every member of staff, every carer, and every visitor, rated Outstanding for Care by the CQC, our values of Care, Ambitious, Respect and Supportive underpin all we do.  Talk to us about joining the Team!

 

Company info
Website
Telephone
0117 970 1212
Location
North Bristol NHS Trust
Trust Headquarters
Southmead Hospital
Southmead Road
Westbury-on-Trym
BS10 5NB
GB

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