Are you an experienced Head & Neck Theatre Practitioner looking for a new challenge? Are you a newly qualified practitioner looking to develop and enhance your skills in the specialty of Head & Neck? Do you enjoy the challenges of working in a dynamic patient care environment?
Liverpool University Hospitals - Aintree site are looking to recruit full and part time Operating Department Practitioners and Registered Nurses who wish to develop their skills within the specialty of Head & Neck surgery. You will have drive and enthusiasm to become part of one of Europes biggest Head & Neck Centres which combines internationally recognised clinical, research and surgery strengths to deliver research-led improvements in the quality and safety of patient care.
Main duties of this post is for the area of Main B Theatres/Head & Neck Centre, although the Aintree site has 20 operating theatres across four departments which cover a wide variety of surgical specialties. The Trust is part of the Liverpool Head and Neck Centre (LHNC), Major Trauma Centre Collaborative (MTCC), a partnership between Liverpool University Hospitals and The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust and is the regional Major Trauma Centre for the North West, providing the full range of services and clinical expertise.
The post holders will need to be able to work as part of the multidisciplinary team helping to provide patients with the highest level of care as well as being able to work as an individual practitioner during their daily practice. As a single site major Trauma Centre for the North West we provide a 24/7 emergency service and staff will be required to participate in this cover when needed and upon reaching a level of competancy, to join the 'On Call' allocation which provides 24/7 emergency trauma surgery cover.
The Departments Include
Main A theatre
- Major Trauma and Orthopaedics
- Emergency theatre
- Urology
Main B Theatre
- Routine and oncology ENT
- Routine, oncology and trauma MFU
- Skull Base
- Orthognathic
Main C Theatre
- General surgery
- Upper and lower GI
- Breast
- Hepatobiliary surgery
Elective Care Centre Theatres
- General Surgery
- Orthopaedics
- Digestive Diseases
- Urology
- Ophthalmology
- Vascular
- Dermatology
- ENT
- Maxillo Facial Surgery
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Daniel O'Brien Job title: Main B Theatre Lead Email address:
[email protected] Telephone number: 0151 529 5266
Jennie Saville ENT Specialty Lead and George Mathew MFU Specialty lead 0151 529 8550
