Senior Scrub Practitioner - Evelina Theatres

Job overview

Band 6 Senior Scrub Practitioner - Evelina London Theatres

Two vacancies have arisen for a highly skilled and experienced scrub nurses to join Evelina Theatres as a Band 6 Senior Scrub Practitioners.

The Evelina theatre complex consists of 5 main theatres, a procedure room, and Cardiac Cath lab and satellite areas such as XMR-Cath, MRI, PET scans. The main specialities in Evelina Theatres include Spinal, Trauma & Orthopaedics, Neurosurgery, Urology, General Surgery, Renal, ENT, Otology, Cleft, Plastics and Gastroenterology.

Evelina theatres collaborates with our newly opened Children's Day Surgery Unit (CDSU).Additionally, we also have been EPIC live since October 2023 and have been pro-actively utilising the new Hospital Information System for seamless, faster and excellent patient care. 

The successful candidate will have extensive and relevant scrub experience, be proactive, self-motivated, have very strong interpersonal skills, a vision for service improvement, and demonstrable leadership and management skills. This role is expected to actively support, coordinate and assist in the management and delivery of high quality care to patients.

They should have paediatric qualification or be willing to pursue the paediatric education pathway for adult nurses. It is highly desirable for them to have experience in leadership in addition to significant scrub experience.

Advert close: 30th June 2024 at Midnight

Interview date: 12th July 2024

Main duties of the job

Acts as the team leader in efficiently running theatre lists and managing staff members to ensure the smooth running of theatre lists in collaboration with the Theatre Coordinator.

Participate in the theatre coordination role. 

Participate in the surgical scheduling and planning meetings.

Support and mentor junior staff and students.

Facilitate Performance Development Reviews (PDR) for Band 5 staff and below in conjunction with the line manager.

Support consumable and equipment management within each specialty group and liaise with the Equipment Manager accordingly.

Participate in different link nurse opportunities ( pain, infection control, EDI, education, wellness, etc.).

Actively participate in areas of Clinical Governance, Audit, and Research projects. 

Actively participate and manage in quality and service improvement projects for the delivery of quality service. 

Be willing to learn and/or able to deputise for Charge Nurse. 

Working for our organisation

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation. 

Evelina London is part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and we are responsible for providing services for women and children. With over 3,000 dedicated staff, and led by an Executive Team and Board, we have significant devolved autonomy to focus operationally and strategically upon the needs of our patients. We also benefit from being part of a large and successful NHS foundation trust, whose values we share. We have an ambitious strategic development programme, with backing from Guy’s and St Thomas’.

Every year, the number of children and young people Evelina London cares for, in hospital and in the community, continues to grow. We provide
comprehensive health services from pre-conception, before birth, throughout childhood and into adult life. Evelina London is here for children, young people and women from London to South East England, and provides specialist care for families around the UK and across the world.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Band 6 Senior Staff Nurse generic job description. Please review section on "Main Duties of the Job" as well.

Person specification

Qualifications/Education

Essential criteria

BSc Nursing or Equivalent

Evidence of professional/clinical knowledge in area supplemented by specialist clinical, managerial training and CPD

SSSA-P

Desirable criteria

Leadership Training

Post registration qualification in (appropriate area of speciality)

Experience

Essential criteria

Previous post registration experience within the relevant specialty

Experience of teaching/assessing/supervising others in a clinical setting

Experience of coordinating a team and the wider MDT in theatres

Experience of project management and service improvement initiatives/ audit

Skills

Essential criteria

Up to date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues. Knowledge of evidence based practice.

Good communication skills, situational awareness and ability to deal with sensitive information

Demonstrates ability to influence and negotiate with others. Ability to organise and plan own time and that of junior staff and learners

Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist care delivered to patients/clients and give relevant advice/information to patients and relatives.

Demonstrate proficiency in technical skills, troubleshooting and handling of specialist equipment

Desirable criteria

Theatre Coordination Roles

Professional/ Statutory Registration

Essential criteria

RN1/ RN2/ RN12 or RN Child Registered Nurse on the NMC register. To hold the appropriate level for the area of speciality.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.