About The Royal Marsden

The Royal Marsden is a centre of excellence with an international reputation for ground-breaking research, complex major surgery and pioneering the very latest in cancer treatments and technologies.

At The Royal Marsden, we have a distinct set of values that define who we are and how we behave. Our values encompass showing kindness and compassion and putting patient care first; offering ideas to improve the quality and safety of our services; supporting colleagues in new ways of working; taking responsibility for personal and team performance and priorities; and striving to deliver high-quality services while making the best use of our resources.

We have seven state-of-the-art theatres at our Chelsea site and two at Sutton, providing nine operating theatres across the Trust.

About the Role

The successful candidate will play a central role within our motivated and committed Recovery team in Chelsea. As a Band 5 Recovery Practitioner, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality, individualised post-anaesthetic care to patients undergoing a wide range of complex surgical procedures.

Responsibilities

• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care within the recovery environment, using sound clinical judgement to recognise changes in a patient's condition, initiate appropriate interventions and escalate concerns promptly.
• Work collaboratively with anaesthetists, surgeons, theatre practitioners to ensure safe and effective patient care and transfer from the recovery area.
• Responsible for the assessment, development, implementation and evaluation of needs of patients.
• Carry out all relevant forms of care for patients of all specialities.
• Maintain supervision of unregistered staff, during each spell of duty.
• Teach other nursing /ODP staff including nurse/ ODP learners.
• Responsible for the safe use of complex theatre equipment (glidoscope, bronchoscopes etc) with responsibility for ordering stock and non-stock supplies and arranging timely servicing of this equipment, both routine and urgent.
• Demonstrate sound knowledge base of safe decontamination processes and practices, particularly relating to the safe decontamination of flexible scopes & sterilisation of instruments.
• Support the senior staff and multi-disciplinary team members in monitoring and maintaining excellent clinical standards of clinical practice and staff development as part of the theatre team.
• Provide specialist clinical advice Trust wide to support and facilitate high quality, individualised, evidence-based care to patients/ clients and relatives/ carers in collaboration with the multi professional team, in line with the local and national targets.
• Responsible for the continuing professional development and overall performance of all staff by acting as a mentor and role model with the support of their senior colleagues.