Assistant Theatre Practitioner

Be a member of a theatre team, providing support and assistance to professionally qualified staff and other team members. Responsibilities will include participating in patient care, equipment care, infection control, ancillary and clerical duties.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Group was created by bringing together staff and services from two NHS Trusts, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of over 19,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond –come and take your place with us.

Due to the expansion in our emergency CEPOD provision, changes in staffing arrangements in our obstetric theatres and the provision of short stay ambulatory day care facilities several new posts are now available.

We are looking for flexible, highly motivated and caring Assistant Theatre Practitioners to join our busy Operating Theatre Department. In line with Trust Policy, we support various, flexible working options, where they can be sustained without being detrimental to our service provision.

The department has ten operating suites, three of which are laminar flow and one is an integrated vascular hybrid suite. Specialties undertaken include: Adults, Paediatrics, General surgery, Colorectal, T&O, Vascular, Gynaecology, Obstetrics and more. We provide a 24hr emergency service 7days per week; as such shift patterns are variable.

Essential requirements:

• Good standard of education
• Willingness to undertake training as required for the post
• Good communication skills: Verbal, Written, Electronic
• Enthusiastic, Motivated, Reliabl

Oldham Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. The place where the world’s first IVF baby was delivered, Oldham is a town of pioneering firsts. Today, Oldham is responsible for delivering a range of acute and community health services across the local area and at The Royal Oldham Hospital. As a designated major trauma unit for Greater Manchester and one of only three vascular centres in Greater Manchester, Oldham is a specialist hospital for acute surgery and provides state-of-the-art onsite pathology services to the North West.

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk

In line with the Trust’s Single Equality Scheme we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, disability, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, religion, marital status, social back ground or trade union membership.