Job summary
We are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity to join our dedicated Orthopaedic Theatre team at Pontefract Hospital.

We are seeking a highly motivated individual with extensive orthopaedic experience to become an integral part of our dynamic team.

This role is ideal for someone looking to take the next step in their career or seeking a fresh challenge in a supportive and forward-thinking environment.

Main duties of the job
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced individual with extensive orthopaedic theatre experience to become a key member of our dynamic multidisciplinary team. This role is ideal for someone looking to take the next step in their perioperative career or seeking a fresh challenge in a supportive and forward thinking environment.

The successful candidate will demonstrate strong clinical experience within the orthopaedic speciality.

They will be expected to undertake a variety of perioperative roles including:

• Scrub Practitioner
• Circulating Person
• Escort Person

All responsibilities will be performed within the scope of the post holders qualifications and registration.

The post holder will act as a role model and mentor, supporting junior staff and students through training, supervision, and participation in professional development processes.

About us
We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield).

We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.

We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.

As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers, home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more.

If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

Job responsibilities
Qualifications

• RODP/RN
• Willingness to undertake mentorship/assessor qualification

Experience

• Previous experience in theatre setting

Knowledge and Awareness

• Essential knowledge of your own speciality and current issues in health care
• Ability to demonstrate evidence based practice
• Continued Professional Development
• Awareness of own limitations

Skills and Abilities

• An ability to work within the peri-operative team and organise and prioritise own and others workload
• Commitment to training

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to review the full requirements.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Please click apply now to view the full person specification (there is no obligation to submit an application).

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details
Employer name: The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust
Address: Pinderfields Hospital, Aberford Road, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1 4DG, United Kingdom
Employer's website: Apply through our website

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Anaesthetic Clinical Lead, Ashley Searson, midyorks.recruitment@nhs.net

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