Theatre Recovery Practitioner

Theatre Recovery PractitionerBand 5Permanent37.5 hours per week (On Call Commitment)The Aintree site has 20 operating theatres across four departments which cover a wide variety of surgical specialties. Liverpool University Foundation Hospital is part of the Major Trauma Centre Collaborative (MTCC), a partnership between Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust and is the regional Major Trauma Centre for the North West, providing the full range of services and clinical expertise for patients who are severely injured from all areas of the region. The departments include:

• Main A theatre consisting of 7 Theatres, Recovery and Surgical Forward Wait
• Main B Theatre consisting of 5 Theatres, Recovery and Surgical Forward Wait
• Main C Theatre, Recovery and Surgical Forward Wait areElective Care Centre Theatres - consisting of 4 Theatres, 2 Treatment Rooms, Recovery, Day Ward and Surgical Forward Wait, Working as a Recovery Practitioner you will be required to function effectively as a member of the peri-operative team to ensure the provision and development of an efficient and high quality surgical service. You will assist in developing high standards of clinical practice in relation to post-operative care. You will need to deliver a holistic care package which is current, evidence based and effective and ensure that recovery criteria is adhered to before discharging patients.
Opportunities are available to rotate between Recovery areas as we aim to develop a multi-skilled workforce. With a great senior experienced recovery team and education team on board, we are able to offer a supportive learning and development opportunity for all staff. We also offer a bespoke preceptorship programme and in-house training from our theatre education team and staff as well as degree level modules.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust. The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience. The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.