Surgical Care Practitioner – Robotic
Bupa Cromwell Hospital - SW5 0TU (5 mins walk from Earls Court underground or 7 mins walk from Gloucester Road underground.)
Salary £75,500
Monday to Sunday, permanent
Full time 37.5 hours p/w
Various Shift patterns
We make health happen
At Bupa, you can be the Nurse you want to be. With the autonomy to use your skills and strong benefits to support you, patient care can be your top priority.
Building a career in Nursing has never been easier, with good hours, you can live a balanced, healthy lifestyle.
Our main adult theatre is a busy and dynamic environment, setting the benchmark for clinical excellence. We have 6 operating suites catering for Cardiac, Orthopaedics, ENT and Ophthalmic, Plastics, General/Vascular, Urology and Gynaecology. We work with surgeons who are the best in their specialities carrying out simple to the more complex surgeries.
Join our dynamic team at The Cromwell Hospital as we expand our innovative robotics program! We are on the lookout for a talented Surgical Care Practitioner with a robust background in robotics to help us elevate our surgical capabilities.
With the recent acquisition of the cutting-edge Da Vinci SP robotic system, we’re now at the leading edge of advanced surgical technology. Be part of an exciting and professional environment where your expertise can truly make a difference!
You’ll help us make health happen by:
- As a Surgical Care Practitioner in the Theatres, you will be required to work alongside the Lead Surgical Care Practitioner to support Robotic Surgery within the department.
- You will have responsibility to the Consultant surgeon, with day-to-day assisting under the direction of the operating surgeon and as a member of the surgical care team.
- Provide safe, competent patient side assistance across multiple robotic surgical specialities.
- Be calm, reliable and organised in a busy environment.
- Act as first assistant if procedure moves to an open/non-robotic conversion.
- Eventual cross cover between Da Vinci Xi & SP robotic platforms.
- Team player helping ensure the smooth flow of robotic cases through the department.
- Robotic trouble shooting, advising, and planning where required.
- Shared oversight of robotic equipment and related consumables.
- Varied working hours.
- Assist with ad-hoc robotic staff training mornings (usually two – three times annually).
- This is a clinical bedside assistance role with no patient clinics or ward rounds involved.
What you’ll bring:
- Qualified Surgical Care Practitioner (SCP)
- Da Vinci Robotics Experience
- Registration as a healthcare professional (e.g. nurse or ODP)
- Experience in a theatre working environment
- 18 months working within a similar autonomous role is desirable.
- Stakeholder management experience at different levels (consultant, theatre staff, and other disciplines).
- Excellent communication and listening skills
- A keen and agile learner
- An approachable member of staff to all levels of clinical & non-clinical team members.
- Ability to work efficiently in the clinical environment on a day-to-day basis and plan ahead effectively.
- Willingness to be part of a dynamic, expanding robotic programme.
- Academic and/or journal publication experience desirable.
Benefits
Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.
Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:
• One off Golden Hello payment (T’s and C’s apply)
• Payment of Professional Registration fees
• Equivalent to 25 days holiday per year, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
• Annual performance-based bonus
• Support with travel costs via a season ticket loan or cycle2work
• Discounted access to online gym sessions through Gympass
• Various other benefits and online discounts
• Free onsite massages as a recognition for your hard work
• Opportunity to participate in our annual awards ceremony
Why Bupa?
We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.
We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.
At Bupa we strive to ensure all our of customers, patients and staff are safe. All employees have a duty to ensure that safeguarding children, young people and adults at risk is prioritised and acted on appropriately.
If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email: careers@bupa.com
If you would like more information on the role or require an alternative format, please contact serina.kapoor@bupa.com
