(Hons) Operating Department Practice (Pre Registration) University of West London

Overview

Through the (Hons) Operating Department Practice (Pre Registration) course from the University of West London  you will learn from highly experienced staff, develop your confidence using modern simulation centre facilities and benefit from personalised feedback throughout the course.

Half of your study time will be spent gaining clinical practice with an NHS trust operating theatre. You can find out more about placements in the course details section or watch this operating department practitioner video by Health Education England. 

Career opportunities:

A career as an operating department practitioner is exciting, rewarding, challenging and demanding.

In order to practise, you will need to be eligible to apply for registration with the regulatory body, the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). This ODP course will prepare you to do so.

See the NHS careers website to find out more. Alternatively, you could continue your studies at UWL. This will help you to enhance your clinical knowledge and skills in a specialist area.

Job roles

As a qualified ODP, you could work in areas such as:

• anaesthetics

• surgery

• recovery

• leadership/management in these areas

• resuscitation teams

• high-dependency areas

• educational and research roles

• emergency department

• intensive care unit.

Graduate employers

• Bart Health NHS Trust

• Gloucestershire Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

• Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

• National Health Service (NHS)

• Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust

• Chelsea and Westminster Hospital

• Croydon University Hospital

• Guy's and St Thomas’ Hospital

• Hammersmith Hospital

• Homerton University Hospital

• King's College Hospital

• Kingston Hospital

• Royal Marsden Hospital

• West Middlesex University Hospital

• Aneurin Bevan University Health Board.