Theatre Practitioner

Are you looking for a dynamic and rewarding career where every day brings something new At Queen Alexandra Hospital youll be part of a forward-thinking team at one of the UKs most innovative perioperative services.

Our Theatres Department is recognised internationally as a Worldwide Centre of Excellence for Robotic Surgery. We offer a modern well-equipped environment with 29 state-of-the-art theatres across two floors plus two dedicated maternity theatres delivering elective emergency and trauma services for adult paediatric and obstetric patients.

What Makes Us Unique

A Diverse & Evolving Working Environment

Our staff are encouraged to continually develop their skills and rotate between at least two areas of practice. Anaesthetic Recovery and Scrub teams also provide specialist support to:

• Maternity Theatres
• Interventional Radiology
• MRI
• Gastroenterology remote services

We provide a 24/7 service with a variety of shift patterns to suit different lifestyles.

Recent service evolution has enabled theatre staff to rotate into Critical Care creating valuable opportunities for career progression and broader clinical experience.

What You Can Expect from Us

Supportive Development & Growth

Once established in your primary area youll have access to rotational opportunities across at least two perioperative specialities (Recovery Scrub Anaesthetics). For those seeking further challenge rotations into Critical Care may also be available.

We are passionate about recognising talent. Through structured development and diverse rotation pathways well help you build specialist expertise and leadership capabilities.

Leadership & Education

You will be encouraged to pursue Leadership and Management training enabling you to grow as a clinical leader and develop strong decisionmaking skills within the perioperative environment.

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust is also proud to be the first Trust in the South East to introduce the Anaesthetic Associate role a pioneering initiative that is transforming anaesthetic services.

A Supportive Team & Tailored Training

You will work within a motivated enthusiastic team who will support you as you develop a broad range of clinical skills. You will benefit from:

• A competency-based training programme
• Dedicated mentor or buddy support
• Regular education and training mornings
• Excellent IT facilities for e-learning
• A dedicated team of Educational Practitioners delivering a meaningful and achievable education programme

Please refer to the Job description for further details:

Qualifications :

Essential:

• Current RN/AHP registration with NMC/HcPC  any other relevant post registration qualifications - ou will already be practising within an Anaesthetics or a Theatre Scrub role.
• Evidence of study at Degree level /Experience  in relevant field 
• Evidence of recent CPD
• Managing resources and contributing to departmental budget
• Evidence of developing policy guidelines and managing resources
• An awareness of research and evidence based practice relevant to clinical area
• You will be willing to work across a minimum of 2 areas of Theatre Practice as part of your ongoing development.

Desirable:

• You will need to be open and adaptable to learning new skills and developing your Leadership skills.
• Computer literate knowledge of patient administration system

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 veterans status colour religion disability sexual orientation and beliefs.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time