Theatre Practitioner (RN/ODP)

Clinical Care • Delivering Patient Care: Provide high-quality care throughout the perioperative process, adhering to Independent Health Group policies and procedures. • Theatre List Coordination: Support efficient theatre list coordination, ensuring timely start and finish times to optimise workflow. • Circulating Duties: Be proficient in circulating duties to effectively support Healthcare Assistants (HCAs) undertaking this role, ensuring smooth workflow and patient care. • Equipment and Theatre Preparation: Ensure all required equipment and theatre preparations are completed in advance to prevent delays or cancellations. Additionally, plan ahead by ensuring equipment and sundries are stocked and available for subsequent lists, supporting efficient forward planning. • Theatre Suite Hygiene: Maintain a clean and safe surgical environment, adhering to all relevant hygiene protocols, including daily, weekly, and monthly cleaning schedules. • Effective Communication: Provide support and reassurance to patients during local anaesthetic procedures, ensuring proper positioning, advocacy, and post-operative care advice. • Record-Keeping: Maintain accurate, timely, and reflective clinical records in both paper and digital formats via the Patient Administration System. Engage with new systems and processes as they are implemented. Patient Safety • Upholding Patient Safety Standards: Adhere to WHO surgical safety guidelines and promote a culture of speaking up for safety. Utilise the "Stop the Line" tool to immediately address concerns to ensure patient safety issues are acknowledged, work is safely paused, and corrective action is taken collaboratively: • Say WHAT you see, • Say WHAT you are concerned about, • Say WHAT you want to happen next. • Quality Improvement and Audits: Engage in quality improvement initiatives, contribute to audits, report incidents, and support resource management to enhance patient safety. • Resuscitation Competency: Maintain up-to-date competence in emergency resuscitation techniques, specifically at the Immediate Life Support (ILS) level. • Waste Management and Infection Prevention & Control (IPC): Ensure safe waste disposal and strict adherence to IPC measures, following Aseptic Non-Touch Technique (ANTT) best practices. • Escalation Protocols: Use NEWS2 scoring to detect early signs of patient deterioration, escalating concerns appropriately through line management and incident reporting systems. • Health and Safety: Uphold workplace safety standards, including safe sharps management, fire safety, and overall risk mitigation for patients, colleagues, and yourself. This includes being aware of any business continuity and emergency planning protocols. • Promoting a Culture of Safety: Follow established safety protocols to maintain high standards of care in alignment with the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF). • Incident Reporting and Investigations: Ensure timely incident reporting and actively contribute to patient safety investigations using the Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety (SEIPS) methodology, helping identify lessons learned and integrating improvements into practice. Ongoing Professional Development • Ensure Competence & Self-Directed Learning: Identify personal learning and professional development needs, proactively seeking growth opportunities. Serve as a versatile Theatre Practitioner across areas such as scrub, admit, discharge, and recovery. • Professional Knowledge and Competence: Keep abreast of professional best practices, research developments, and maintain your professional registration. Job description Job responsibilities Clinical Care • Delivering Patient Care: Provide high-quality care throughout the perioperative process, adhering to Independent Health Group policies and procedures. • Theatre List Coordination: Support efficient theatre list coordination, ensuring timely start and finish times to optimise workflow. • Circulating Duties: Be proficient in circulating duties to effectively support Healthcare Assistants (HCAs) undertaking this role, ensuring smooth workflow and patient care. • Equipment and Theatre Preparation: Ensure all required equipment and theatre preparations are completed in advance to prevent delays or cancellations. Additionally, plan ahead by ensuring equipment and sundries are stocked and available for subsequent lists, supporting efficient forward planning. • Theatre Suite Hygiene: Maintain a clean and safe surgical environment, adhering to all relevant hygiene protocols, including daily, weekly, and monthly cleaning schedules. • Effective Communication: Provide support and reassurance to patients during local anaesthetic procedures, ensuring proper positioning, advocacy, and post-operative care advice. • Record-Keeping: Maintain accurate, timely, and reflective clinical records in both paper and digital formats via the Patient Administration System. Engage with new systems and processes as they are implemented. Patient Safety • Upholding Patient Safety Standards: Adhere to WHO surgical safety guidelines and promote a culture of speaking up for safety. Utilise the "Stop the Line" tool to immediately address concerns to ensure patient safety issues are acknowledged, work is safely paused, and corrective action is taken collaboratively: • Say WHAT you see, • Say WHAT you are concerned about, • Say WHAT you want to happen next. • Quality Improvement and Audits: Engage in quality improvement initiatives, contribute to audits, report incidents, and support resource management to enhance patient safety. • Resuscitation Competency: Maintain up-to-date competence in emergency resuscitation techniques, specifically at the Immediate Life Support (ILS) level. • Waste Management and Infection Prevention & Control (IPC): Ensure safe waste disposal and strict adherence to IPC measures, following Aseptic Non-Touch Technique (ANTT) best practices. • Escalation Protocols: Use NEWS2 scoring to detect early signs of patient deterioration, escalating concerns appropriately through line management and incident reporting systems. • Health and Safety: Uphold workplace safety standards, including safe sharps management, fire safety, and overall risk mitigation for patients, colleagues, and yourself. This includes being aware of any business continuity and emergency planning protocols. • Promoting a Culture of Safety: Follow established safety protocols to maintain high standards of care in alignment with the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF). • Incident Reporting and Investigations: Ensure timely incident reporting and actively contribute to patient safety investigations using the Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety (SEIPS) methodology, helping identify lessons learned and integrating improvements into practice. Ongoing Professional Development • Ensure Competence & Self-Directed Learning: Identify personal learning and professional development needs, proactively seeking growth opportunities. Serve as a versatile Theatre Practitioner across areas such as scrub, admit, discharge, and recovery. • Professional Knowledge and Competence: Keep abreast of professional best practices, research developments, and maintain your professional registration.