# Perioperative Practitioner - Recovery

**Company**: Spire Healthcare
**Location**: United Kingdom
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Join our outstanding theatre team at Spire Shawfair Park Hospital as a Perioperative Practitioner/Nurse (Recovery). This role offers the opportunity to work within a modern, technologically advanced theatre environment, supporting patients throughout their post-anaesthetic recovery journey and contributing to exceptional clinical outcomes.

You will gain exposure to a varied surgical caseload, including orthopaedics, general surgery, ENT, gynaecology, urology, and plastic surgery.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Deliver safe, high-quality perioperative care throughout the patient's recovery pathway

- Assess and monitor patients immediately following surgery or procedures within the Post Anaesthetic Care Unit (PACU)

- Effectively manage post-operative pain and evaluate patient outcomes

- Monitor surgical wounds, dressings, drains, and intravenous access devices

- Ensure patients meet recovery and discharge criteria prior to transfer to the ward or day surgery unit

- Communicate patient progress and clinical concerns to anaesthetists, consultants, and ward teams

- Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate individualised patient care

- Support the effective management and organisation of the theatre recovery area

- Work collaboratively with consultants and multidisciplinary teams to deliver excellent clinical outcomes

- Maintain accurate and contemporaneous patient records in line with professional standards

- Adhere to infection prevention and control policies and best practice guidelines

- Support, supervise, and mentor junior staff, students, and healthcare assistants where appropriate

- Provide reassurance, education, and support to patients and their relatives throughout the recovery process

- Uphold the highest standards of patient safety, clinical governance, and professional practice

**Who We're Looking For**

- HCPC-registered Operating Department Practitioner (ODP) or NMC-registered Nurse with no restrictions on practice

- A minimum of two years' experience within a Recovery/PACU environment

- Experience in one or more of the following specialities: orthopaedics, general surgery, ENT, gynaecology, urology, plastic surgery

- Excellent communication and organisational skills

- A flexible, positive, and patient-centred approach

- The ability to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team

**Benefits**

- Competitive salary

- 35 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays

- Employer and employee contributory pension scheme with flexible retirement options

- 'Spire for You' reward platform offering discounts and cashback at over 1,000 retailers

- Free Bupa health and wellbeing screening

- Private medical insurance

- Life assurance

- Ongoing training, professional development, and career progression opportunities

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## Skills

### Required
- perioperative care
- post-anaesthetic recovery
- patient assessment
- pain management
- communication skills
- organisational skills

### Nice to have
- orthopaedics
- general surgery
- ENT
- gynaecology
- urology
- plastic surgery

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