Job summary
- Main area
- Anaesthetic Nurse/ODP
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 249-7432989
- Employer
- Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Great Western Hospital
- Town
- Swindon
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/09/2025 08:00
Employer heading
Anaesthetic Practitioner
Band 5
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a unique organisation, serving as the sole integrated provider in the Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon, and Wiltshire system. Our scope extends beyond boundaries as we oversee adult community services in Swindon and provide acute care from the Great Western Hospital.
Our 5,500 staff have 1.2m patient contacts a year, with 13,000 operations carried out in our Theatres, around 4,000 babies born, and our emergency attendances are now well over 100,000 per year. Those numbers only tell part of our story about what an exciting time it is to join Great Western Hospitals.
We are cultivating a culture that fosters our ambitions, prioritising equality, diversion, inclusion, wellbeing, and leadership. We aim to create an environment where every member of our team can truly thrive.
The Trust is a Disability Confident Employer; all applicants who have a disability can opt to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme, which means that, providing they meet the minimum essential criteria for the post, they will be offered an interview. We are also proudly accredited as a Veteran Aware organisation and have signed The Armed Forces Covenant.
If we receive a high volume of applications, we may close adverts prior to the published closing date. Therefore, we advise you to complete and submit your application as soon as possible.
Job overview
PREVIOUS CANDIDATES NEED NOT APPLY
As a registered Anaesthetic Practitioner, you will be an accountable and autonomous practitioner to act in the best interests of your patients at all times and take personal responsibility for your actions and decisions. To be responsible for patient assessment, planning of care, giving and supervising safe and compassionate care, and evaluating the effectiveness of care.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be a NMC / HCPC registered practitioner or nurse who will assess, plan, implement and evaluate high quality, safe and compassionate care for patients in the perioperative setting. This care will be facilitated utilising evidence based perioperative standards, trust policies as well as local and national guidelines (e.g. NICE).
The post holder will be expected to work with the perioperative multidisciplinary team (including Anaesthetists and Surgeons) to provide effective care within the Anaesthetics, Scrub and Post Anaesthetic care disciplines, in line with scope of practice and departmental need.
The post holder will support the Theatre Leadership Team to ensure standards of practice and care quality are upheld; this includes acting as a role model, supporting the learning of others and contributing to the development and implementation of improvement ideas.
Working for our organisation
Our STAR values – Service, Teamwork, Ambition and Respect – are a golden thread running through everything we do. These values serve as a guiding principle, driving us towards our vision of delivering great joined up services to our local community. Whether at home, in the community, or within the hospital, our goal is to empower individuals to lead independent and healthier lives.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Assess, plan, and implement high quality, safe, compassionate and effective perioperative care for patients, in line with scope of practice.
- Ensure risk management / safety strategies, Trust policies and departmental procedures are adhered to in the delivery of patient care.
- Demonstrate a sound theoretical understanding and practical application of evidence-based, perioperative care standards in line with national recommendations and clinical guidance (e.g., NICE, AfPP).
- Ensure patient safety strategies (e.g., WHO surgical Safety / 5 steps to safer surgery) are implemented consistently and where appropriate, contribute to the development of new initiatives which support the improvement agenda.
- Promote dignity and respect, ensuring the patient is cared for in a way that meets their expectations and maximises patient experience.
- Maintain accurate, comprehensive and comprehensible records of care provision delivered in accordance with legislation, protocols and guidelines
- Understand and commit to the professional expectations of registration (NMC / HCPC), ensuring clinical activities are undertaken within scope of practice.
- Effectively communicate with patients, service users and all members of the multidisciplinary team in a collaborative and professional manner; implement different communication techniques / strategies when communicating sensitive information or where there are barriers to understanding.
- Coordinate the clinical activity of the operating session, working with the multidisciplinary team to ensure perioperative care is safe, effective and delivered efficiently to promote utilisation of theatre capacity; this will involve day to day supervision of theatre staff.
- Contribute to a positive learning experience by undertaking teaching activities to support the development of staff and students within the perioperative setting; this includes promoting good practice and providing supervision to learners.
- Use professional knowledge to support clinical advice as well as the maintenance and improvement of perioperative standards.
- Accountable for maintaining standards of practice within the perioperative environment, promoting a professional, patient centred approach to care provision.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of care by conducting audits to inform future practice, Trust policies and departmental procedures.
- Responsible for reporting clinical incidents and adverse events to senior staff, as well as completing incident reports (DATIX) to support timely investigation and resolution.
- Maintain clinical practice by keeping up to date with local/national policies, developments and initiatives relevant to professional area; utilising knowledge to inform current and future practice.
- Undertake Continuing Professional Development (CPD) activities commensurate to the role and scope of practice; maintain professional portfolio to support the assessment / achievement of CPD by relevant regulatory bodies (NMC / HCPC)
- Encourage and facilitate the generation and implementation of new initiatives within the clinical environment to support improvement for the benefit of patients, service users and colleagues.
- Responsible for identifying strategies to support personal and professional development; supported by line manager to achieve ambitions.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- First level registered nurse or registered Operating Department Practitioner
- Current registration with either NMC or HCPC
- Accredited post registration qualification in Anaesthetics or Post Anaesthetic Care (as appropriate to role)
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Intermediate Life Support / Paediatric Intermediate Life Support (Anaesthetics and Post Anaesthetic Care roles)
- Teaching / Assessing / Mentorship qualification
- Completion of a validated, university accredited, Surgical First Assistant programme of study to support extended scope of practice
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of care, using an evidence-based approach
- Experience of understanding and implementing (adhering to) Trust policies, departmental procedures and local / national guidelines
- Experience of working collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team to meet the needs of all service users
- Experience of undertaking / recording CPD activities commensurate to the role, including keeping relevant logs to support annual appraisal / validation of extended role competencies
Desirable criteria
- Experience across a broad range of specialities in 1 or more perioperative discipline (Anaesthetics, Scrub and Post Anaesthetic Care)
- Evidence of supervising junior staff and leading clinical teams
- Evidence of supporting colleagues / mentoring learners / facilitating learning within the perioperative environment
- Evidence of post registration CPD and recent experience as a Surgical First Assistant / ability to demonstrate specialist knowledge / competence to undertake Surgical First Assistant role
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Willingness to develop skills in the perioperative setting Demonstrates effective written and verbal communication skills, particularly where there are barriers to understanding. Maintain up to date knowledge of relevant local and national guidance / standards. Ability to undertake role / problem solve using clinical expertise and experience, guided by appropriate trust policies / standard operating procedures / guidelines and best practice. Ability to escalate concerns when additional support / decision making required Basic IT skills – word, excel, power points, emails
Desirable criteria
- Theoretical knowledge / understanding of the Surgical First Assistant role and scope of practice
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 McGahey
- Job title
- Clinical lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01793 607042
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