# Recovery Practitioner

**Company**: Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Ashford
**Salary**: £33677.00 to £40996.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The theatre team at Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting enthusiastic and highly motivated ODPs/RN to work within our Recovery room at Ashford site. You will provide specialist support and knowledge to patients and staff alike within clinical areas in Recovery room.

The successful candidate will be able to carry out individualised nursing duties to the highest standards within the recovery room according to policies and procedures under the control of the person in charge, reporting any difficulties or concerns.

Main duties of the job:

- Maintain awareness of and comply with the NMC Code of Professional Conduct/Scope of Professional Practice the HPC Standards of Proficiency, Trust Policies, Procedures and Guidelines.

- Promote good working relationships and collaborative working with the multi-disciplinary team, both within the division and the rest of the Trust.

- Deliver skilled practical care to all patients in the monitoring, planning and delivery of individualized patient care in the immediate post operative period.

Responsibilities include:

- Monitoring post-operative patients' levels of consciousness during recovery from anaesthesia.

- Measuring and recording patients' vital signs.

- Closely observing patients for signs of side effects of anaesthesia medication.

- Treating pain, nausea, and other post-operative symptoms of anaesthesia.

- Maintain accurate record keeping by updating charts, patient files, and medical records.

- Providing comfort and reassurance to distressed post-operative patients and concerned family members.

- To maintain at all times a professional attitude, this includes appearance in accordance with the Trust Dress Code Policy.

The Trust offers the full range of NHS benefits & discounts.

For more information about careers at ASPH visit: www.asph-careers.org

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## Skills

### Required
- Registered RN with NMC
- Acute Hospital Experience
- Preceptorship
- Medicine Management

### Nice to have
- Recovery Experience
- ILS
- Recovery Courses
- PS/PA
- Evidence of CPD

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