Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Enhanced Recovery Practitioner
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About the Role
This role offers a unique opportunity to work as part of a multidisciplinary approach to implement and embed enhanced recovery within the orthopaedic unit. The role will require somebody with a high level of interpersonal and communication skill and the ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team. As an enhanced recovery practitioner for orthopaedics, you will be expected to lead the multi-disciplinary team on the orthopaedic wards to implement enhanced recovery, in addition to supporting the patients and their families throughout the pathway both preoperatively and post operatively. You will also support them post discharge and follow up these patients in clinic.
Working as part of the multi-disciplinary team you will be actively encouraged to assist with service development and improve the patient experience based on emerging and best practice models of care, which is responsive to patient feedback and audit. The post holder will work collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team to promote evidence-based practice and continuous service improvement with a view to reduce length of stay and increase day-case arthroplasty.
In addition, you’ll support the ward manager with a range of leadership and management responsibilities, helping to foster a positive team culture, coordinate service delivery, and ensure the smooth running of the unit. Your contribution will help drive excellence across both clinical and operational aspects of the service.
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Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate the enhanced recovery pathway for patients undergoing hip and knee arthroplasty
- Deliver patient education sessions to support informed consent and expectation management
- Monitor and evaluate patient progress throughout the perioperative pathway
- Active involvement in the morning team brief
- Promote early mobilisation, effective pain control, and timely discharge
- Recognise and respond appropriately to clinical deterioration or complications
- Review early post op patients particularly with regard to possible complications such as wound infection
- Be a single point of contact for patients throughout their journey
- Liaise promptly with consultants
- Communicate effectively with patients, relatives, and carers
- Provide clear, accessible information regarding procedures and recovery
- Liaise with members of the multidisciplinary team to ensure coordinated care
- Support and guide ward staff for lower limb arthroplasty patients
- Contribute to a positive learning environment within the clinical area
- Demonstrate professional accountability and act as a role model for best practice
- Assist in the coordination of patient flow and discharge planning
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About Us
We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done.
You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Emma Kevill
- Job title: Matron
- Email address: emma.kevill@lthtr.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 01772 523956
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