Surgical Care Practitioner
£49k - £57k GBP
Band 7
Salary: £49,387 - £56,515
Contract - Permanent
Hours full time: 37.5
To act as a non-medically qualified practitioner responsible for leading, co-ordinating, delivering and maintaining a high standard of day-to-day clinical care for all patients requiring Minimally Invasive surgery via day surgery and general surgery.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide support to the Clinical Manager and Clinical leadership to the ward, theatre, outpatients department and preoperative assessment team.
- Demonstrate expertise and share in depth specialist knowledge and skills to all members to develop clinical and professional practice
- Be proactive in resource management
- Engage and interact with patients carers encouraging them to be actively involved in caring process
- Work collaboratively and ensure effective communication between multi – disciplinary team, participating in the induction of locum staff to trust policies and routine
For a full list of roles and responsibilities, please see the attached job description.
Qualifications
Essential
- Current NMC or HCPC registration
- Surgical Care Practice qualification
Desirable
- Teaching certificate
- Relevant Management / Leadership Course
- Surgical First Assistant qualification
Experience
Essential
- Established Surgical Care Practitioner (preferably within general surgery, but not essential)
Desirable
- Evidence of surgical/theatre teaching (formal and informal)
- Previous experience of staff development and performance management
Additional Information
The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.
We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.