Buscar empleo: 62 ofertas de trabajo de specialist en Plymouth (febrero 2026)

Trainee/ Qualified ACP (MSc with Surgical credentialing), SCP (MSc)

hace 7 días

Plymouth

Job overviewWe are seeking a motivated, professional and enthusiastic practitioner to join our well established, friendly and successful team of Masters qualified Surgical Care Practitioners. We are very sociable, love the outdoors and enjoy the benefits of costal living.As a qualified member of the surgical team you will be expected to perform surgical interventions and pre-operative and post-operative care under the supervision of a senior surgeon. As a Surgical Care Practitioner within our team, you will work closely with Consultant Surgeons, providing expert clinical care and advanced surgical practice. You will demonstrate autonomy in patient assessment, diagnosis, and management, supported by defined competencies and trust protocols. Your role will also encompass leadership, education, research, and quality improvement to enhance patient outcomes and service delivery.This opportunity is open to qualified Surgical Care Practitioners, Advanced Clinical Practitioners with an interest in Cardiothoracic Surgery or allied health professionals who would like to train to become Surgical Care Practitioners with the relevant qualifications to train.This is a post for a qualified or trainee position, with the Banding reflecting experience and qualification. Applicants should be able to demonstrate level 7 education or relevant demonstrable experience at this level.Main duties of the jobOnce qualified as a Surgical Care Practitioner you will be a dynamic, driven practitioner with advanced clinical expertise and a passion for continuous improvement in surgical services. You will adapt and thrive in a collaborative environment and demonstrate leadership in practice, education, and research.To act as a first or second assistant to the Consultant Surgeons or other members of the surgical team.Act as a first/second assistant in surgery and perform defined invasive procedures. To participate in pre and post-operative care of surgical patients, with particular attention to appropriate work up of patients and the establishment of effective pathways for complex procedures, wound care, wound healing and the prevention of infection in surgical wounds.Deliver advanced perioperative and postoperative care with a focus on complex surgical pathways.Lead on clinical governance activities, including audit and research.Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team to optimise patient pathways and ensure adherence to cancer waiting times where appropriate.Provide mentorship and education to junior staff while maintaining a high standard of patient-centred care.To be an expert clinical practitioner, ensuring patients receive high quality clinical care whilst undertaking defined invasive procedures, utilising specialist knowledge and skills.Working for our organisationWe are a people business – where every member of staff matters and can make a difference. Patients are at the heart of everything we do. Joining University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust means becoming part of a team of dedicated staff, who are committed to leading the way through innovation, clinical excellence and great customer care. The Trust has great opportunities for career development in a highly progressive working environment. We offer all of this in a vibrant, modern city with a historic reputation for adventure. PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL COMMUNICATION WILL BE ELECTRONIC, PLEASE CHECK YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT REGULARLY. If you have any issues with applying online and need additional support including reasonable adjustments with the application process please contact the recruitment team on 01752 432100. We recognise that work life balance is important for our colleagues and so we invite requests from applicants around less than full time/flexible working for our advertised roles. Please contact the recruiting manager to discuss this prior to your application submission. We commit to giving this full consideration in each case. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply for our roles, as diversity strengthens our teams. It is sometimes necessary to close vacancies before the closing date. If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.Detailed job description and main responsibilitiesThe post-holder will be supported to develop skills, practices and behaviours which include:Clinical Practice - Assess, differentially diagnose, plan, implement and evaluate individual treatment interventions for patients by virtue of expert clinical judgement and close liaison with members of the MDT. - Use expertise and decision-making skills to inform clinical reasoning approaches when dealing with differentiated and undifferentiated individual presentations and complex situations, synthesising information from multiple sources to make appropriate, evidence-based judgements and/or diagnoses. • Initiate, evaluate, and modify a range of interventions which may include prescribing medicines, therapies, lifestyle advice and care. - Exercise professional judgement to manage risk appropriately, especially where there may be complex and unpredictable events and supporting teams to do likewise to ensure safety of individuals, families and carers. - Ensure compliance with their respective code of professional conduct and work within their scope of practice., • Works in conjunction with the MDT to clearly define values, direction and policies impacting upon care. - Work in partnership with individuals, families and carers, using a range of assessment methods as appropriate. - Be able to demonstrate a critical understanding of their broadened level of responsibility and autonomy. This includes being critically aware of their limits of their own competence and professional scope of practice, including when working with complexity, risk, uncertainty, and incomplete information. - Be responsible and accountable for their decisions, actions and omissions at this level of practice.- Utilise professional judgement and maturity, understanding when to seek help.- Demonstrate critical reflection on own practice, self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and openness to change.- Demonstrate effective communication skills, supporting people in making decisions, planning care or seeking to make positive changes, using Health Education England’s framework to promote person-centred approaches in health and care.- Work collaboratively with an appropriate range of multi-agency and inter-professional resources, developing, maintaining, and evaluating links to manage risk and issues across organisations and settings.- Evidence the underpinning subject-specific competencies i.e., knowledge, skills and behaviours relevant to the role setting and scope, and demonstrate application of the capabilities to these, in an approach that is appropriate to the individual role, setting and scope.- Act as a clinical role model/advocate for developing and delivering care that is responsive to changing requirements, informed by an understanding of local population health needs, agencies and networks.- Actively implement effective systems and processes for infection control management whilst working clinically and be a role model for other members of the clinical team. - Initiate drug therapy/medication within the parameters of agreed clinical guidelines and in accordance with the legal framework you work under to supply and prescribe medicines (if from professional group legally entitled to prescribe). This is desirable but not essential.- Upon completion of training, pre-assess patients for upcoming surgery, including undertaking a clinical examination, ordering, interpreting, acting upon and documenting investigations and findings, helping to facilitate informed clinical decision making.- With appropriate training and supervision, assess a patient’s donor sites for conduit harvest such as Long Saphenous Vein and Radial artery by clinical examination and ultrasonic vein mapping. Accurately document findings in patient notes and clinical systems, enabling appropriate clinical decision making.- With appropriate training and supervision, clinically examine a patient in routine 6-week follow-up clinic, making the appropriate checks on their recovery, requesting and interpreting further investigations such as Blood tests, Chest X-rays, ECG’s and Echocardiograms, initialising readmission seeking appropriate medical opinion when needed. Documentation and communication of findings to Consultant Surgeon, dictation of letters to referring Cardiologist and General Practitioner.- Communicating with the patient highly sensitive and complex information regarding risks and benefits of Surgery as part of the pre-operative consent process.- Following training and appropriate supervision, competently establish invasive and non-invasive monitoring.- With appropriate training and supervision contribute to the clinical management of the post–operative patient, including early recognition of common post-operative complications, requesting, interpreting further investigations and acting upon findings, seeking senior advice if required.- Assist in the resuscitation of arrested or compromised patients, performing Advanced life support and when required emergency chest openings in CITU/HDU working in the role of Cardiac Surgical Assistant and Advanced Life Support Provider.- With appropriate training and supervision, act as first or second assistant for all Cardiothoracic surgical procedures, within the SCPs scope of professional practice.- With appropriate training and supervision, undertake the surgical procedure of conduit harvesting, specifically the Long Saphenous Vein, Short Saphenous Vein and Radial Artery, both Endoscopically and open, completing wound closure utilising clinical judgement and in accordance with the clinical needs of the individual patient.- Under appropriate supervision support the Surgeon performing sternotomy, ensuring haemostasis and aseptic technique are maintained.- With appropriate training and supervision, assist and independently undertake the closure of the sternal wound, ensuring haemostasis and asepsis.- Following appropriate training insert endoscopic ports for the use in Robotic surgery, acting as primary or secondary bedside operating clinician for Robotic surgery.- Following training and appropriate supervision perform the removal of central lines, pacing wires and chest drains.- Following training and appropriate supervision undertake the removal of IABP.- Perform both male and female catheterisation.- With appropriate training assist and lead in emergency CALS and chest opening situations.For further details please see the attached JD & PS Person specificationKnowledge & ExperienceEssential criteria- Significant demonstrable experience within speciality- Proven evidence of management ability and leadership qualities.QualificationsEssential criteria- Professional Registration- Demonstrable evidence of ability to work at academic level 7- Commitment to work towards Independent and non-medical prescribing, if from a core profession in which NMP is supported- Committed to completing the MSc in advanced clinical practice.- Willingness to complete Education/Mentorship Course- Proven evidence of relevant, recent study and continuing professional developmentAptitude & AbilitiesEssential criteria- Ability to undertake or have undertaken clinical audit.- Ability to recognise and analyse complex situations and take appropriate actionPLEASE NOTE THAT ALL COMMUNICATION WILL BE ELECTRONIC, PLEASE CHECK YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT REGULARLY INCLUDING YOUR JUNK FOLDER. If you need support with the online application process or require reasonable adjustments with the application and/or interview process please contact the Recruiting Manager for this post. We recognise that work life balance is important for our colleagues and so we invite requests from applicants about less than full time/flexible working for our advertised roles. We recommend contacting the manager of the role prior to applying and we commit to giving requests full consideration. We welcome and encourage applicants who identify with all protected characteristics to apply for our roles. We believe that diversity strengthens our teams and improves our patients' experience. At UHP we aim to create an inclusive workplace and hospital where everyone feels they belong and included.It is sometimes necessary to close vacancies before the closing date. If you have not heard from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.Providing false information is an offence & could result in the application being rejected or summary dismissal/police action if an applicant is successful.Please note that if you are successful in your application & accept the position you agree that the Staff Health and Wellbeing Department can access your health records from your current/previous employer in order to check the status of your inoculations & screening tests. This is an automated process & the information will only be used for these purposes prior to your taking up the position with us.For Doctors Roles:Unsolicited CVs and Candidate Profiles/DetailsUniversity Hospitals Plymouth has a commitment to sourcing candidates directly and as such we do not accept speculative CVs from agencies.We do, however, work with a defined list of preferred HTE Framework suppliers who may be invited to support us in sourcing candidates for particular roles.In line with our preferred supplier list, we only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place and an agency has been instructed by a member of the Trust’s Medical Workforce team.We do not pay agency fees where speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to the Trust or Trust employees by any other means than the official route above. Where this is not observed the Trust reserves the right to contact these candidates directly and initiate discussions without payment of any agency fee.Any candidate details (whether written or spoken) or CVs that are referred directly will not constitute an introduction. The Trust will under no circumstances be responsible for any recruitment fees in relation to these contacts.Submission of any unsolicited CVs, candidate’s details and/or proposals to the Trust will not be considered further and will be deemed evidence of full and unlimited acceptance of this Agency Protocol.In order to establish and maintain good working relationships with the Trust’s agency suppliers, we ask that this Protocol is adhered to and thank you for your co-operation.

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