Childrens Theatre practitioner -(STU Sept 24)

Job overview

At the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, you’ll get all the support you’ve always wanted to develop your skills, expand your knowledge, and grow your scope of practice.

RMCH Theatres are the leading provider of paediatric tertiary and specialist healthcare services in Manchester and treat more than a million patients every year. Our Theatre Department consists of nine operating theatres, a Minor Procedures Unit and ten post anaesthetic recovery bays. Within our theatres, we provide highly specialised elective care including Renal Transplantation, Spinal, Neurosurgical, Burns & Plastics, Neonatal, Thoracic, Complex ENT, Trauma & Orthopaedics.

As one of our band 5 practitioners, you will be undertake a preceptorship period (of 12 months for newly qualified) where you will complete the required trust & theatre competencies to enable you to be a skillful and knowledgeable practitioner.

You will be supported in a supernumery period of 3 months where you will be working alongside your mentor- learning your role and building your confidence.

You will also be required to complete all relevant MFT trust mandatory training.

Our shift patterns are:

Early shift- 8-6

Late Shift- 12- 21.30

Night shift- 21.00- 08.30

weekend shifts are also included within our roster

*Please note that this post is for a scrub and/or anaesthetic practitioner role*

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Working as an ODP/Registered Nurse within Paediatric Theatres, you’ll be providing the highest standards of care and making a difference to the lives of children across Manchester and beyond.  You’ll provide outstanding clinical support and deliver direct care for our patients within your  specialist area.

Please see the job description and person specification for further details

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

 At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.