Junior Scrub Nurse

Junior Scrub Nurse

Location: Central London, UK

Salary: up to £41,000 (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 Junior Scrub Nurse!

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

We are looking for a full-time permanent position to be filled as a Junior Scrub Nurse! You will be working 4 or 5 days a week, Monday to Friday. The clinic is open between 7am – 9pm, and there is optional weekend overtime available at enhanced rates.

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. You will be reporting to the Theatre Manager and work alongside a team of scrub practitioners working closely with anaesthetic and recovery colleagues.

Responsibilities:

• Providing comprehensive care to perioperative patients who have undergone day surgery
• Share responsibility for the management and organisation of the operating department
• Help to ensure smooth, timely and efficient processes and procedures within a safe environment
• Promote safeguarding and risk management in respect of patients, employees and visitors
• 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 scrub/surgical practice
• Evidence of clinical reasoning and sound decision-making skills across a varied patient case mix

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.