Advanced Theatre Practitioner - Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom - Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

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    Band 6 Advanced Theatre Practitioner (Operating Department Practitioner / Anaesthetic Nurse)

    A role in an innovative and dynamic team with development opportunities working within a friendly and supportive learning environment.

    This is a brilliant opportunity with huge potential to develop and progress working within a motivated and enthusiastic team.


    We are a major NHS trust based in the vibrant and expanding town of Reading in Berkshire and considered one of the best places to work according to the NHS Staff survey 2017.


    The Royal Berkshire Hospital, part of the NHS Foundation Trust, is rated Good by the CQC and is also considered one of the best hospitals in the UK, graded 6th in the country.


    The hospital comprises of twenty operating theatres covering multiple specialities which include Orthopaedics, General and Emergency, Trauma, Urology, ENT, Ophthalmics, Gynae, Maternity, Robotics, and Maxillo Facial.

    We deliver exemplary patient care resulting an excellent patient experience. In return, we offer a number of comprehensive, internal and external development opportunities and support for career progression.

    You will need to demonstrate the ability to translate the trust's vision of high quality care and excellent patient experience into action.

    HCPC registered Operating Department Practitioner (ODP) or NMC registered Nurse.
    Advanced anaesthetic skills essential.
    Evidence of Band 5 Development.
    Scrub experience would be beneficial but not essential.

    Be motivated and enthusiastic about your own professional development and keen to enhance skills and competencies within the team.

    Reading sits on the river Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford and Southampton.

    With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.

    The CQC recently rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.


    To help coordinate the skilled care of patients within their theatre specialty, demonstrating expertise in all aspects of the care of patients.

    ODP or RGN + anaesthetic modules
    Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
    Royal Berkshire Hospital