Theatre Practitioner in Anaesthetics

Job summary

We are looking to recruit Band 5 Anaesthetic Practitioners to join our dedicated theatre team here at Birmingham Children's Hospital. This is an exciting opportunity to develop core skills and gain valuable experiences, working in a specialised centre for paediatric surgery.

You will be working within a large multidisciplinary team, across any of our different specialties that we offer here, ranging from complex cardiac surgery to day case procedures. The successful candidate will need to be empathetic, professional and respectful, adhering to our trust values in order to deliver the best possible care to our patients.

If you are seeking a new challenge within your career, then this exciting opportunity could be the one for you!

As leading tertiary centre, the hospital performs a wide range of acute and specialized paediatric surgery, and has a busy Emergency Department managing 60,000 attendances/year and a 31 bed Paediatric Intensive Care Unit. The hospital is a regional designated Trauma Centre and is proposing further service expansions. Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is committed to providing excellent staff experience and is committed to engagement and improvement.

Main duties of the job

The Children's Hospital theatres are an exciting place to work; full of challenges, development opportunities and delivers great job satisfaction within a supportive and enjoyable environment.

With any role within the Children's Hospital , all practitioners are supported by our Theatre Leads, Mangers and the Education team on their journey. This is in addition to The Birmingham Children's Hospital dedicated Education team. The successful potholder will have 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

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.