Job summary
- Main area
- Theatres
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Under review)
- Job ref
- 160-7336287
- Employer
- The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Recovery Theatre Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
Demonstrate leadership. Promote and encourage teamwork. Provide skilled clinical and technical advanced assistance as a member of the operating theatre team. Lead and participate in the assessment of patient care needs implementing and maintaining agreed standards of care. Following Codes of Professional Practice provide high quality care to patients undergoing treatment within the Peri-Operative Environment.
Main duties of the job
1. Line management and supervision of all grades of staff within the sphere of authority, acting as a clinical lead and expert to junior, unqualified and less experienced staff
2. Coordinate and manage own specialty and theatre. Liaise with consultant surgeons and anaesthetists to assess requirements for future operating lists and ensure those requirements are met
3. Take the lead with planning, delivering and evaluation of patient care
4. Work with senior staff to identify and manage staff performance issues, including sickness absence, capability and discipline
5. Participate in the process of recruitment, selection and retention of staff
6. Working with members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team following local policies, protocols and standards
7. Awareness of the effective management of resources within the department
8. Participate in clinical trials, audit and research when required
9. Promote and lead the ‘safer surgery’ agenda throughout the department
Working for our organisation
The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust is the only NHS trust to hold dual accreditation for the Investors in People. We invest in people and we invest in wellbeing standards and have been awarded Gold status for both. The Walton Centre is a leader in the treatment and care of neurology and neurosurgery, placing the patient and their family at the heart of everything we do. As the only specialist hospital trust in the UK dedicated to providing comprehensive neurology, neurosurgery, spinal and pain management services we are proud to be rated as an Outstanding Trust by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), and champion change throughout the field of neuroscience. Originally formed in 1992, the Trust received Foundation Trust status in 2009.
With around 1,450 staff, The Walton Centre treats more than 127,000 outpatients and 18,000 inpatients each year. We have leading specialists and incredibly dedicated staff delivering excellent clinical outcomes for brain, spinal and neurological care nationally and internationally. Teams across our site in Fazakerley, Liverpool, offer a world-class service in diagnosing and treating injuries and illnesses affecting the brain, spine and peripheral nerves and muscles, and in supporting people suffering from a wide range of long-term neurological conditions.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Plan and prepare equipment according to patients needs and procedures
- Maintain user competency for relevant equipment both existing and new, teaching, supervising and signing off junior members of staff
- Implement and evaluate care as appropriate to surgical requirement and patient’s condition. Supervise and support new and junior members of the team.
- Perform the necessary pre and post-op checks and adhere to the principles of the WHO checklist
- Monitoring and assessing patient’s condition, responding to changes in condition, proposing / making changes to care plan as required and escalating concerns as appropriate
- Directing and participating in the manoeuvring and the positioning of conscious and unconscious patients
- Handover and transferring responsibility of care to colleagues, ensuring appropriate information and care is relayed
- Supporting and re-assessing patients and relatives/carers during perioperative procedures
- Working within guidelines of NMC and HPC Codes of Practice depending upon registration
- To be aware of the management of drugs and to adhere to local policies and administer drugs as prescribed
- Maintaining accurate patient and theatre records, including electronic records
- Respond to and report untoward incidents as per policy
Participate in out of hours shifts and on call as required
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RN – 1 ST level Registration
- Mentorship qualification or working towards
Desirable criteria
- Degree in related Health Care Studies
- PQF theatre modules as part of degree pathway
- ‘sign off’ Mentorship qualification
- D32 / 33
- EDCL or equivalent
- Post reg. study in Neuro specific area
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of supporting students / learners in practice
- Significant experience in a related area
- Evidence of achievements in previous posts
- Demonstrate a multi-skilled clinical approach.
- Proven ability to deliver high standards of care
- Computer literacy
Desirable criteria
- Previous neurosurgery experience
- Experienced in delivering peri operative care in the following areas: • MRI suite • Recovery • Critical care • Invasive Radiological Techniques outside the theatre suite.
Skills & Attributes
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable commitment to teaching and staff development
- Knowledge of equality & diversity, clinical governance, infection control & clinical supervision and how these relate to the role
- Evidence of Professional and Personal Development.
- Liaise confidently and effectively with other disciplines.
- An understanding of Resource Management
- Ability to problem solve and adapt to changing situations and to support staff in these types of situations.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to prioritise work/people
- Experience with organizational change
Other
Essential criteria
- Reliable and Flexible
- Well-presented and professional
- Motivation and enthusiasm
- Well-presented and accurate application form
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
- Natalie Pauls
- Job title
- Clinical Lead for ODP, Recovery and Estates
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 556 3381
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