Trainee Advanced Scrub PractitionerNHS

Job summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic Trainee Advanced Surgical Practitioner to join the team assisting a team of Consultants and Specialist Registrars across a range of Orthopaedic, Elective and Trauma procedures. As well as General Surgery procedures

This position may require Trust wide working across our Trust sites including Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, Hexham General Hospital, Wansbeck General Hospital and North Tyneside General Hospital.

Please note - North Tyneside General Hospital will be the base site for this post.

This post falls within the provisions of Agenda for Change Annex 20 - Development of Professional Roles, whereby upon completion of an agreed set of competencies you may move onto the next pay band without the need for an application for a post at a higher level.

Annex 20 applies:

This post falls within the provisions of Agenda for Change Annex 20 - Development of Professional Roles, whereby upon completion of an agreed set of competencies you may move onto the next pay band without the need for an application for a post at a higher level.

For further information on Annex 20, please see:

http://www.nhsemployers.org/tchandbook/annex-16-to-20/annex-20-development-of-professional-roles

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

• Supervision of junior members of staff, students and visitors.
• To provide nursing care to a caseload of patients and to provide verbal and written handovers to nursing colleagues and the multi disciplinary team.
• To provide on call cover as required to meet the needs of the service .
• May be required to work on other sites across the Trust.

Job description

• To assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care under the direction of the senior nurse/SODP.
• To assist in the provision of nursing care and maintain high clinical standards.
• To exercise accountability as set out in the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
• Develop over time and contribute to the management of a clinical area and take charge in the absence of Senior Nurse/ODP.
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.