Operating Department Practitioner

We have vacancies for HCPC/NMC Registered Operating Department Practitioners, to work in our theatres at Pinderfields General hospital. Our department has 18 theatres, delivering 24/7 acute and elective care in various interesting specialities, including obstetrics, orthopaedics, reconstructive breast surgery and many others as well as being the Yorkshire regional burns centre.. The successful candidates will join our established teams to provide safe anaesthetic and surgical care and support to our adult and paediatric patients and will be happy working shifts on a rotational basis, including nights, on calls and weekends. We are committed to education and progression of our staff and are supported by our own education team as well as our trust PDEU team and have a wealth of knowledge in our experienced band 6 team leaders and within the team itself, including our forward thinking role of band 6 clinical specialists supporting each speciality. we have a very diverse and multi cultural, The main duty is to adhere to HCPC/NMC and AFPP guidelines of good Practice supporting safe and effective surgical and anaesthetic care. Working proactively within the MDT to achieve positive patient outcomes and satisfaction.

Our theatre provides safe care and support to people requiring acute or elective surgical care. The role involves both scrub and anaesthetic practise, we encourage our nursing colleagues to take part in anaesthetic training and our ODP colleagues to carry out the scrub role.

team which enriches us as a department and and gives us access to different ways of working from all around the world.

We provide care and support to over a million people in Wakefield and Kirklees in their homes, community settings and across our three hospital sites at Pontefract, Dewsbury and Pinderfields (Wakefield).

Always striving for excellence, we are at the forefront of innovation and research, and we invest in teaching and the development of our workforce.

We live by our values of caring, improving, being respectful and maintaining high standards. We listen and learn because we aim to make Mid Yorkshire the best place to work and receive care.

We value diversity and welcome talent and enthusiasm irrespective of age, disability, neurodivergence, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances including providing unpaid carers support to someone with a health and care need. As ethnic minority groups, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and people with a disability/neurodivergence are currently under-represented across the organisation, we encourage applications from members of these groups. We have policies and procedures to ensure all applicants are treated fairly and consistently.

We are proud of our staff networks - who offer valuable guidance and feedback from those with lived experience.

We have a clear vision and you could be part of this! If you share our values and you want to make a difference to the lives of our patients and their families and carers, we would love to hear from you.