Theatre Scrub Practitioner

We have opportunities available for a registered nurse to join the UK's leading heart and lung transplant theatre team. Do you feel you are the right candidate to join our dynamic and friendly team? This post will involve the care of the patient and the preparation of specialist equipment for various types of cardio-thoracic procedures. In addition to this you will be trained to support the theatre team throughout surgery and also to complement our Transplant, PTE, VAD and ECMO services. As the largest and leading specialist cardiothoracic hospital in the UK, Royal Papworth Hospital is dedicated to providing our patients with the best possible care through the excellence of our caring staff.If you are interested in finding out more about working in our department, please see our dedicated pages on our website: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/working-here/roles/nursing-vacancies/nursing-roles/theatres

• Effective communication at all levels and disciplines within the department and wider hospital
• Excellent organizational skills
• Excellent teamwork
• Strong work ethic
  
  Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality. The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview. For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour


• Full time (24/7 shift requirement) + departmental and transplant service on-call commitment
• Band 5 Salary range
• Comprehensive orientation and support package provided
• Professional development opportunities including ILS and CALS