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Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

About

First choice for Buckinghamshire and beyond

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust provide a wide range of high quality acute and community services from two acute hospital sites in Stoke Mandeville and Wycombe, and community hospitals at Amersham, Thame, Marlow, Buckingham, Chalfonts and Gerrards Cross. Details of these can be found on they hospitals and community facilities page.

Specialist services include our regional dermatology, allergy and skin cancer centre, burns care and plastics sub-regional centre, cardiac services and the National Spinal Injuries Centre.

More than 6,000 staff serve residents across Buckinghamshire, Thame (Oxfordshire), Tring (Hertfordshire) and Leighton Buzzard (Bedfordshire) - a combined population of 500,000. It serves a much larger population, 1.5m for burns and plastic services and 14m for spinal injuries.

Where your needs always come first

Our patients are at the heart of everything that we do, providing you with safe and compassionate care, every time. Our focus is on providing right care, right place, right time, first time and everything we do is aimed at delivering high-quality care when and where you need it.

Source - Trust Website

Contact

Address: Stoke Mandeville Hospital; Mandeville Road; Aylesbury; Buckinghamshire; HP21 8AL
Contact Number: 01494 734208

Find out more

Jobs Website

Vacancy status: Open

Ref: 434-SCC6666523 Vacancy ID: 6666523

Theatres CSSD / Stores Operative

Accepting applications until: 31-Oct-2024 23:59

Vacancy status: Open

Accepting applications until: 31-Oct-2024 23:59

Key details

Location

Gwefan: Stoke Mandeville Hospital
Cyfeiriad: Mandeville Road
Tref: Aylesbury
Cod post: HP21 8AL
Major / Minor Region: Buckinghamshire

Contract type & working pattern

Contract

Permanent: Expected to work cross-sites

Oriau

Full time
Part time
Flexible working

37.5 hours per week

Salary

Cyflog: £23,615 per annum ( pro rata for part time)
Cyfnod cyflog: Yearly
Gradd: (Band 2)

Specialty

Prif leoliad: Theatres

Be part of our BHT family

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area.

We care for over half a million patients every year:

provide specialist spinal services at our world renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics
nationally recognised for urology and skin cancer services
regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke and cardiac services
deliver community services in health centres, schools, patients’ own homes, community hospitals and community hubs.

More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures and backgrounds work for us.

We would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options. We strive to be a family friendly, inclusive employer.

If you require any assistance in making this application, please contact [email protected] or phone 01494 734868.

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work – and invite you to join our BHT family.

Trosolwg o'r swydd

Stoke Mandeville Hospital Operating Theatres are looking for a Theatres Sterile Services/Stores Operative to join our friendly team. As the emergency surgery site for the Trust, we support operations across a range of specialities, including General surgery, Gynaecology, Orthopaedics, Plastic surgery Ophthalmology and Urology.

You will be supporting the care of patients undergoing operations by ensuring the provision of all sterile instruments and consumables to theatres within the agreed time. You will be joining a team of dedicated professionals who you will learn from on the job and we will provide training to ensure you have the skills for the role.

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Your main job role will be ensuring all instruments and consumables are available to theatres the day before surgery, and to escalate any inability to do so in a timely manner.

Assist in the delivery of patient care
Contribute to quality improvement
Adhere to all Trust Policies and Procedure
To ensure all instruments and consumables are available for use to Theatres the day before surgery, and to escalate any shortfall to a senior person, in a timely manner.
To ensure Surgeons’ preference cards are up to date, working in conjunction with Theatre staff.
To ensure the prompt return to CSSD of all instruments, liaison with CSSD to ensure priority is given to urgent requirements.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

Listen to why colleagues think we are a great place to work! - BHT - A great place to work (buckshealthcare.nhs.uk)

What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

Why work for us?

We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
A keen supporter of the Armed Forces Community who know the value of employing a service leaver/veteran and their families.

What do we stand for?

Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
Our care values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.

Swydd ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl

For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.

If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.

If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on [email protected] quoting the vacancy reference number.

PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.

COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.

If you are successful at interview, we will require you to complete a Covid-19 risk assessment document.

Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight. If we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before to the closing date.

Contacting you: We will contact candidates through the email address supplied on their application form. Please make sure you check this regularly.

Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.

Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interview will not be reimbursed.

Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Person specification

Education, Qualifications and Training

Meini prawf hanfodol

Good general education

Experience

Meini prawf dymunol

Previous experience of Sterile Services or Theatres

Skills, Abilities and Knowledge

Meini prawf hanfodol

Ability to work effectively in stressful and pressurised situations
Good time management

Meini prawf dymunol

Ability to prioritise workload to meet the demands of the department

Special Circumstances

Meini prawf hanfodol

Good team worker

Documents

Job Description (PDF, 192.6KB)
Person Specification (PDF, 608.3KB)
Functional Requirements (PDF, 192.6KB)
Welcome to Buckinghamshire NHS Trust (PDF, 430.1KB)
Living in Buckinghamshire (PDF, 2.0MB)

Further details / informal visits contact

Enw: Julie Maybridge- Edwards
Teitl y swydd: Lead Scrub Practitioner
Cyfeiriad ebost: [email protected]
Rhif ffôn: 01296 315600
Gwybodaeth i gefnogi eich cais: For more information or to arrange an informal visit, please contact Julie Maybridge Edwards (Lead Scrub Practitioner. New Wing Theatres) at [email protected] or call 01296 315600