Return to Practice Operating Department Practitioner Honorary Contract

Job summary

Return to Practice: Operating Department Practitioners (Honorary Contracts)

We understand that you may have paused your career. Whatever the reason for this, if you are now ready to come back, we are keen to support you with placement opportunities within Theatres at UHB.

If you are returning to practice, you need to update your knowledge and skills as follows.

0 to 2 years out of practice no requirements

2 to 5 years out of practice 30 days of updating

5 or more years out of practice 60 days of updating

In the days requirements above, we consider 1 day to be equivalent to 7.5 hours

We can offer you a range of flexible clinical placements, enabling you to complete the required practice hours within our Theatres.

These placements will be unpaid with a variety of hours and locations available. We have many areas that can support your return to practise hours with a view to the provisional offer of a Band 5 position once you have HCPC registration.

Main duties, tasks & skills required

We are looking for dynamic, highly motivated applicants to work in Theatre on any of our four sites: Good Hope Hospital, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Solihull Hospital. We cover many specialities including Obs & Gynae, Trauma & Orthopaedics, Interventional Radiology, Thoracic, Cardiac, Liver, Neuro, Plastics, Burns, Hands, General, Urology, Renal, Maxillofacial, ENT, Vascular, Paediatrics, Ophthalmology, Day case surgery and Emergency. All we ask for is that you provide the very best care to our patients and work with our teams to ensure patient quality and safe care is delivered.

Division 1 theatres are an exciting place to work; full of challenges, development opportunities and delivers great job satisfaction within a supportive and enjoyable environment. We have many areas that can support your return to practise hours with a view to the provisional offer of a Band 5 position once you have HCPC registration.

With any role within UHB, each post comes with the support of our education team and managers. This is extended by support from our School of Nursing, AHPs and Midwifery. The School offers exciting opportunities for career growth and development, and our focus is on providing a supportive environment as part of your continuing professional development. We want you to feel a sense of belonging, community, commitment and support.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

Job description

Please Note: For further information about Theatre Practitioner's please see attached Job Decription 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

Previous Operating Department Practitioners 

Experience

Essential

Previous Operating Department Practitioners 

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

For help with your application, contact: 

Division 1 Recruitment Team 

Division1RecruitmentTeam@uhb.nhs.uk