Job summary
- Main area
- Post Anaesthetic Care
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 234-24-S0060
- Employer
- Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital
- Town
- Norwich
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 06/06/2024
Employer heading
Recovery Nurse/Operating Department Practitioner - Recovery
NHS AfC: Band 5
At NNUH it is our privilege to provide healthcare to over one million people across Norfolk and surrounding areas. Our vision is to ‘provide the best care for every patient’, and if this inspires you and you share our values, we really want you to join our team.
NNUH is currently the busiest Trauma Unit in the East of England caring for almost 850 trauma patients annually many with complex care needs. We are enhancing our urgent and emergency care specialist services for patients with significant injuries as a result of trauma and have an ambition to become a Major Trauma Centre.
Our values support our vision and guide the behaviour of everything we do, these are:
People-focused
We look after the needs of our patients, carers and colleagues, to provide a safe and caring experience for all.
Respect
We act with care, compassion and kindness and value others’ diverse needs.
Integrity
We take an honest, open and ethical approach to everything we do.
Dedication
We work as one team and support each other to maintain the highest professional standards.
Excellence
We continuously learn and improve to achieve the best outcomes for our patients and our hospital.
Wish you were here? So do we.
We want all our staff to achieve a balance between work and personal life and understand how important flexible working can be. We welcome applications on a full or part time basis, various shift patterns and hybrid working, where roles allow.
At the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NNUH), we know the benefits diversity can bring to our organisation such as creativity, innovation and compassion. All of which have a direct impact towards our staff and patient experience. We are committed to being a Hospital for All – being equitable and inclusive, and a place where all feel a sense of belonging. We therefore particularly encourage and welcome applications from candidates who are underrepresented in NNUH’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, people with diverse abilities and people within the LGBT+ community.
Job overview
The post Anaesthetic Care Unit (PACU) Team at the Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital are recruiting Band 5 Registered Staff (Staff Nurses/ODPs) to join their busy team.
PACU is centrally placed in the Main Theatre Suite (of 17 Theatres) and has 24 bays (Including 4 Paediatric bays). We also support activity in the Day Procedure Unit, two Obstetric Theatres, MRI/CT (for patients having had general anaesthesia) and the Brachytherapy Suite. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team (Nurses, ODP's, HCA's, TWS's, Medical staff) you will care for adults and children in the immediate post-anaesthetic/surgical phase.
The PACU Team is dedicated to improving patients' experience by undertaking Quality Improvement initiatives such as: expanding our services as a PACU, anaesthesia Clinical Services Accreditation and Improving care (surgical pathway) for patience with a Dementia diagnosis.
All Trainees work in a supernumerary capacity alongside an assigned mentor until asses as being competent to work independently. In-service training, covering Recovery practices are already available and exciting opportunities such as simulation training are forthcoming. As a teaching Hospital we support student nurses and student ODP's from both adult and child branch in collaboration with the UEA.
We encourage professional development of all our staff, so we hope to see willingness to develop in your application.
Main duties of the job
To provide a professional competent service to patience in a safe clinical environment. The postholder will be expected to undertake the post-anaesthetic and post-operative management of adult and paediatric patience, using their initiative to asses, plan and implement care intervention to include:
- Assume autonomous responsibility of patients care once a handover from the anaesthetist and the surgical team has been given.
- Work in collaboration with the appropriate anaesthetists, relevant consultants and their multi-disciplinary care teams.
- Demonstrate by skills and knowledge the care of the unconscious patience with particular reference to basic and advances airway management.
- Provide continual observation and monitoring of physiological parameters using non-invasive and invasive techniques
- Provide extended care for patience post-operatively who have a high dependence satus, requiring stabilisation before transfer to the HDU/ICU
Working for our organisation
Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff!
The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.
We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity
We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:
- Flexible working hours
- Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
- Multi Faith prayer room
- Discounted gym memberships
- Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
- Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
- Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH site
- Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
- On-site Nursery
- On-site cafes offering staff discounts
- Support in career development
- Flexible staff bank
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Supervise and maintain high standards of patient care by demonstrating and understanding of the NMC/HPCP conduct & local codes of practice
- Ensure that Trust/Theatre policies, procedures and Health & Safety legislation are adhered to.
- Train and supervise students within the department including agency, bank, newly qualified and new members of staff.
- Develop knowledge surrounding the side effects of anaesthesia/surgery with patients who on occasions exhibit disorientation/confused status Ie. Physical/verbal aggression.
- To support the delivery of a high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare service, all staff are expected to act as a role model to others in all aspects of their work and consistently demonstrate NNUH’s ‘PRIDE’ values of People focused, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence and demonstrate behaviours that support and encourage an inclusive culture
Please refer to the Job Description for the full specification of responsibilities and requirements for this post.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc Adult Nursing/Dip HE Adult Nursing on the NMC Register or DipHE Operating Department Practice & on the HCPC register.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of professional development
Desirable criteria
- Some post-registration in a peri-operative environment with experience in recovery
Skills
Essential criteria
- Maintain high standards of care
Attitude, aptitude
Essential criteria
- Display flexibility and reliability in order to cover a 24hr period.
- Effective role model, demonstrating NNUH’s PRIDE values of People focussed, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence
- Demonstrates understanding and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
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
- Karen Morton
- Job title
- Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01603 289344
- Additional information
01603 286286 x5344
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