Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.

Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

Band 7

Salary: £49,387 - £56,515

Contract - Permanent

Hours full time: 37.5

This post is only open for applications for individuals employed within the Hampshire and Isle of Wight NHS Care System

Organisations within scope are as follows:

• Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board
• Southern Health Foundation Trust
• Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
• University Hospital Southampton
• Solent NHS Trust
• South Central Ambulance Service
• Isle of Wight NHS Trust
• Hampshire Hospitals

To act as a non-medically qualified practitioner responsible for leading, co-ordinating, delivering and maintaining a high standard of day-to-day clinical care for all patients requiring Minimally Invasive surgery via day surgery and general surgery.   

Key Responsibilities:

1. Provide support to the Clinical Manager and Clinical leadership to the ward, theatre, outpatients department and preoperative assessment team.
2. Demonstrate expertise and share in depth specialist knowledge and skills to all members to develop clinical and professional practice
3. Be proactive in resource management
4. Engage and interact with patients carers encouraging them to be actively involved in caring process
5. Work collaboratively and ensure effective communication between multi – disciplinary team, participating in the induction of locum staff to trust policies and routine

For a full lit of roles and responsibilities, please see the attached job description. 

Essential

• Current NMC or HCPC registration
• Surgical Care Practice qualification

Desirable

• Teaching certificate
• Relevant Management / Leadership Course
• Surgical First Assistant qualification

Experience

Essential

• Established Surgical Care Practitioner (preferably within general surgery, but not essential)

Desirable

• Evidence of surgical/theatre teaching (formal and informal)
• Previous experience of staff development and performance management

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.