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Scrub Nurse

Reference: 8408
Date posted: 26.08.2022
Job details
Essex
Permanent
£27,055 - £31,954 (Annual)
Band 5
Specialism
Theatres
Sub specialism
General medical, General theatres, Scrub
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Description

Scrub Nurse/ODP

Location: Chelmsford, Essex, UK

Salary: Band 5 (annual) depending on experience

** Welcome Bonus and Relocation Allowance Available!

Role: Permanent, Full-time position

 

 

Pulse is delighted to be working alongside a well-renowned private healthcare group to recruit a new Scrub Nurse/ODP to join their Theatres!

 

The impressive hospital has 64 registered beds all with ensuite facilities and parent and child rooms, a 14-bed day unit as well as a high dependency unit. They focus on a range of services and specialties including surgery, medicine, oncology, plastic, cosmetic surgery and paediatrics.

 

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!

 

What’s in it for you?

  • There is a welcome bonus and relocation allowance available!
  • Contributory pension scheme 
  • Attractive enhancement rates between 30% – 100% for evenings, weekends and bank holidays available to permanent and bank
  • 25 days’ annual leave plus 8 day’s Bank Holiday 
  • Private Healthcare and Life Assurance
  • Free onsite parking and a subsidised staff restaurant
  • Access to our employee Discount Programme
  • Wellbeing centre and access to 24/7 employee assistance line
  • Access to the Academy – We invest in our people by creating real development opportunities and career pathways supported by structured learning curriculums

 

Your responsibilities will include:

  • 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

 

We are looking for you to be:

  • NMC/HCPC Registered
  • Previous experience in orthopaedics is advantageous – but not essential!

 

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.


Pulse is an employment agency/employment business (as defined by the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003) and is acting on behalf of its client in relation to this vacancy.

We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.

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