Theatre Support Workers

Our Theatre Support Workers work under the direction of our registered theatre practitioners, undertaking duties relating to the care of patients including the preparation and cleaning of the theatres, collecting patients from wards and returning them following surgery, and supporting the team to maintain an environment that is ready to provide safe, high quality care., · Enable surgical procedures and theatre lists to run efficiently, supporting the registered practitioner to perform their duties effectively by acting as an integral part of the theatre team.

· Assist in the set up of your theatre each morning ensuring all Trust policies and procedures are followed.

· Assist the scrub practitioner in setting up for surgical procedures including equipment, such as; diathermy machines, suction and endoscopic stacks

· Act as the secondary checker when counting swabs, needles, instruments and sterile fluids with a registered member of staff, ensuring any discrepancies are communicated with the theatre team.

· Circulate for surgical procedures ensuring sterility is maintained, and instrumentation, equipment and sundries are available as required by the registered practitioner.

· Demonstratable knowledge of how a sterile field is maintained and how to act if the field is compromised

· Actively participates in the completion of World Health Organisation's Five Steps to Safer Surgery.

· Support the theatre practitioner in the care of the peri-operative patient assisting with specific nursing procedures as required., · To perform clinical observations on patients under the supervision of the registered practitioner within the scope of competency training, being able to recognise, record and report changes in patients' condition and relevant observations to registered staff:

· Accurately measure and record blood loss: weighing swabs, measuring suction to calculate loss before information is communicated/reported to anaesthetist and registered staff. (site specific)

· Sterilisation of specialised equipment in decontamination area as required by specialty, following manufacturer's and Trust guidance.

· Overall management of scopes, including the organisation of repairs per COSHH and manufactures guidance and daily maintenance of storage cabinets and stock levels.

· Support the perioperative team in sending for patients where appropriate and receive a handover of care from the ward teams ensuring receipt of clinical notes and handover of care face-to-face at the patient's bedside as per Locssips guidance.

· Assist in safe transfer of postoperative patients back to the ward ensuring oxygen is available and in working order.

· Carry out patient safety checks and report any discrepancies to the theatre practitioner in charge.

· Demonstrate correct use of PPE for: laser, X Ray, infected cases, chemical spillages and disposal of clinical waste and fluids.

· Escort the patient to the anaesthetic room, assisting the anaesthetist and anaesthetic practitioner as necessary, ensuring the appropriate monitoring and equipment is applied as requested within the scope of competency training.

· Assist with the moving and handling of patients from bed to theatre trolleys, ensuring correct position, following adequate training.

· Act as the patient's advocate, maintaining their dignity at all times within a departmental team to ensure total Pre, Peri and Post-operative care.

· Work flexibility within the department, according to competency and skills.

· Monitor and manage the replacement of fluids using relevant fluid management systems during orthopaedic/urology surgery and other applicable surgical procedures ensuring expiry dates are checked with registered practitioner.

· Able to receive and care for theatre specimen correctly and understand the differing requirements for histology, culture and sensitivity, cytology and frozen sections, with oversight from registered practitioner.

· Arrange the collection of specimens in a timely manner using established organisational practices liaising with external partners as required.

· To collect and accept blood products in accordance with the trust policy ensuring they are delivered to the correct theatre in both elective and emergency procedures. Demonstrates correct storage of blood in theatre blood fridges.

· Care for the dying/organ donation patient with dignity, providing support to the visiting teams as required

· Maintain a safe environment for patients and staff by completing checks as required and reporting immediately any hazards or areas of concern.

· Act within a link role where required for training competencies e.g. blood collection, fire safety.

We are looking for a person to help our team make a positive difference to patients and the care that they recieve. The successful candidate should be hard working, caring, compassionate and keen to learn.,

• Demonstrates a willingness and capability to undertake NVQ Level 3, Demonstrable experience in a theatre setting


• Previous Care experience, Reputation for high standard of patient care
  
  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.

The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £18+£5 (standard disclosure) or £38+£5 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment.

From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.

Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.

All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.

As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.

If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

For agenda for change banded roles; salary payments will reflect the 2023/24 pay scales. The 2024/25 pay scales will be paid in October 2024 including any backpay due. Therefore should the successful applicant start in post prior to October, the salary will initially reflect the 2023/24 pay scales.