Surgical Care Practitioner

Hey, i have searched the site and cant find any posts about this career.

Surgical care practitioners are nurses, operating department practitioners, physiotherapists or allied healthcare professionals who have extended the scope of their healthcare practice to work within the surgical wards and in the operating theatre supporting and assisting the surgeon in the delivery of surgical services to the patient.

A Surgical Care Practitioner is defined as:
"A non-medical practitioner, working in clinical practice as a member of the extended surgical team, who performs surgical intervention, pre-operative and post-operative care under the direction and supervision of a consultant surgeon."

The surgical care practitioner is not an independent practitioner but is a member of the surgical and extended surgical team. Their scope of practice is governed by:

training received in one of the nine surgical specialites or gynaecology, and
clinical tasks delegated to them by the consultant surgeon

I originally wanted to be a nurse and still do however after hearing of this as a career posibility i am now questioning things. What i want to know is if anyone else has heard of this title before or is it actually a new title for a type of nurse practitioner?

The Surgical Care Practitioner role is an extended role for a nurse or ODP after having numerous years of experience in the peri operative field, coupled with post graduate training as a surgical assistant as a stepping stone to becoming a SCP.

The mere fact that one of the posts above says that it's a lot of wound care management is completely wrong. SCPs become a part of the surgical team and may see patients in pre op clinics, attend ward rounds, instigate the necessary investigations pre and post op, prescribe, discharge and even conduct minor surgery independently.