Scrub Nurse

Location: Central London, UK

Salary: up to £43,000 (annual) depending on experience

Role: Permanent, Full-Time position

Pulse is delighted to be working alongside the UK's largest private orthopaedic centre for the theatre team to recruit a scrub nurse!

The outstanding centre provides three state of the art operating theatres including interventional radiology and a separate ward with 12 patient beds. You will be focusing on providing comprehensive care to perioperative patients who have undergone day surgery.

What is in it for you?

• Flexible hours!
• 35 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays
• Employer and employee contributory pension with flexible retirement options
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance
• Saving an average of £50 per month with our free onsite car park
• Career development

While working within a fantastic multidisciplinary team, you will need to be able to assess, plan, deliver, and evaluate high standards of peri-operative patient care.

Responsibilities:

• Focus on peri-operative care
• Prepare patients for operative procedures
• Liaising with patients, families and consultants
• Assemble, check and prepare appropriate surgical instruments and consumables for a wide range of operative procedures - any faults need to be reported to theatre manager immediately
• Coordinate use of supplies and equipment - ensuring all is safe and ready to use as well as monitor and order stock for operative procedures
• Provide a safe environment for all
• Support colleagues/team along with operative procedures
• Contribute to changes in practice ad policies ensuring all policies and procedures are met and followed for NMC and/or HPC codes of practice
• Maintain safe custody of handling all drugs in accordance with policies
• Any accidents and complained are fully documents and appropriate manager are informed

Requirements:

• NMC-registered nurse / ODP
• A minimum of 2 years post qualification experience in surgical practice including perioperative and orthopaedic experience
• Evidence of clinical reasoning and sound decision-making skills across a varied patient case mix

If you are interested in this role, please contact me on Applyor via email:

If this position is not right for you but you know a friend or colleague that may be interested, you can earn up to £250 voucher for successful referring them.