Job summary
- Main area
- Maternity
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 290-WCCS-2139
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Queen Charlottes Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £37,259 - £45,356 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Recovery Theatre Nurse
Band 5
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
This is a great opportunity for nurses who would like to work within the maternity recovery and theatre setting at Queen Charlotte's Hospital.
The role entails providing care to women and babies in the maternity recovery area following surgical procedures.
The role would also include supporting with theatre activity and the potential to develop role within operating theatre as theatre scrub practitioner. The post holder will assess care needs and develop, implement and evaluate programs of care for individual women/birthing people.
They will be involved in the preparation of theatre equipment and instrument and responsible for maintaining asepsis intraoperative and compliance with WHO safety procedures.
Please see main job description for more information on role.
Main duties of the job
To provide high standards of skilled care and support in both perioperative and post-operative areas of the maternity service.
You will work collaboratively with all members of the theatre, maternity and multidisciplinary team to ensure a safe and effective service is provided
The role involves carrying out post-operative care in the maternity recovery area involves and participating as a scrubbed or circulating member of the team with in theatre.
Please see main job description for more information on role.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered nurse > 1year
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Basic Life Support
Desirable criteria
- Theatre course
- Post anaesthetic course or experience
- Advanced life support
Experience
Essential criteria
- Theatre or recovery experience
- Able to demonstrate knowledge of clinical role in maternity recovery
- Care of the deteriorating patient
Desirable criteria
- Experience in recovery/HDU
- Use of MEOWS
- Familiar with PCA/epidurals for pain relief
Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Competent in computer/IT skills
- Awareness of theatre environment and resources
- Venepuncture and cannulation
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of risk management and Datix
- Care of the newborn
- Perform ECG
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Marie Hall
- Job title
- Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
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