Job summary
Are you a band 5 Theatre practitioner who is ready for the next stage in your career?
Are you a current band 6 theatre team leader and wish to relocate or need a new challenge?
Solihull Hospital is expanding its theatre suite with 6 new theatres, creating exciting career opportunities.
With the addition of orthopaedic surgery and robotic colorectal surgery to the existing specialities of breast and plastics, robotic and non-robotic urology, colorectal and UGI, there has never been a better time to join the team.
The theatres will cover a broad range of low and high complexity cancer and non-cancer surgery. This will be a cutting-edge development aligned with current national policy.
As we look forward to the opening of the six new theatres in Spring 2024, we will be seeing an extra 10,000 operations every year, thus creating twelve Band 6 opportunities. Our Theatres Matron Johanna Blake will lead these new colleagues. Her strategy is to bring together a team to provide the best patient experience, and to deliver a high standard of care to everyone who comes through the doors of theatre.
Main duties of the job
We pride ourselves on being a supportive team, ensuring that staff satisfaction and supporting a healthy work / life balance is high on our priorities. Our theatres have been recognised for the GOLD LEAF CERTIFICATE by Birmingham City University for their outstanding leadership and invaluable contribution to practice education and have recently received awards for excellent placement areas and exceptional student feedback.
Our award winning UHB School of Nursing where you can be assured of, quality education, wellbeing, leadership and all aspects of personal development. Within the School we offer a range of internal/external pathways to Research, Masters and PHD's that can be tailored to your career ambitions.
Success will see you utilise your sound clinical knowledge and experience, your excellent time management skills to work autonomously within our team across all specialist areas.
In return, you can expect a warm and friendly welcome from the Theatres and wider Solihull Team -- where you will embrace of values of Kind, Connected and Bold, whilst deliver first class patient care which underpins everything we do.
You can expect a starting salary of 35,392 rising to 42,618 with ongoing education and personal development. This, along with a public sector pension, 27 days annual leave (rising with service) and the opportunity to make a difference within our communities.
You are invited to apply via the traditional route - or send your contact details to askus@uhb.nhs.uk
About us
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please Note:: For additional information about this exciting opportunity, please see attached Job Description
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please Note:: For additional information about this exciting opportunity, please see attached Job Description
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *NMC Registered Nurse / HCPC Registered Operating Department Practitioner
- *Knowledge of a broad range of theatre procedures and instrumentation/ processes equivalent to post graduate level acquired through Diploma / Degree plus experience and further study or qualification or an equivalent level of knowledge associated with the practice setting
Desirable
- *Health care leadership / management qualification
Experience
Essential
- *Recent experience within theatres working as a registered practitioner in an acute practice setting involving the supervision / education of junior staff
- *Professional portfolio which demonstrates continuing professional development, evidence of ability to maintain professional registration
- *Evidence of effective multi-professional working
- *Experienced mentor / assessor / student supervisor
- *Experience of supporting the implementation change including new procedures/ processes
- *Evidence of the ability to confidently lead / coordinate a shift / area of the department
- *Evidence of the ability to organise others and forward plan and review/ adjust staff rotas
- *Experienced in learning from incidents / complaints and supporting changes in practice
- *Wide knowledge of a range or pre and post-operative care, ability to plan and organise duties / service requirements associated with physical and human resources , ability to allocate tasks / duties to a range of staff
- *Can demonstrate an understanding of human resource management associated with codes of practice / professional and Trust guidelines
- *Can demonstrate understanding of how to review/ plan staff rotas in accordance with Trust guidance / service need and mitigate workforce risks associated with staff deployment
- *Demonstrates ability , passion and knowledge of the following
- -Leadership
- -Team building / team work
- -Physical / Human Resource management
- -Change management
- -Clinical Governance / Patient Safety
- *Can demonstrate knowledge in relation to immediate incident management involving staff/ patients and the practice setting
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *NMC Registered Nurse / HCPC Registered Operating Department Practitioner
- *Knowledge of a broad range of theatre procedures and instrumentation/ processes equivalent to post graduate level acquired through Diploma / Degree plus experience and further study or qualification or an equivalent level of knowledge associated with the practice setting
Desirable
- *Health care leadership / management qualification
Experience
Essential
- *Recent experience within theatres working as a registered practitioner in an acute practice setting involving the supervision / education of junior staff
- *Professional portfolio which demonstrates continuing professional development, evidence of ability to maintain professional registration
- *Evidence of effective multi-professional working
- *Experienced mentor / assessor / student supervisor
- *Experience of supporting the implementation change including new procedures/ processes
- *Evidence of the ability to confidently lead / coordinate a shift / area of the department
- *Evidence of the ability to organise others and forward plan and review/ adjust staff rotas
- *Experienced in learning from incidents / complaints and supporting changes in practice
- *Wide knowledge of a range or pre and post-operative care, ability to plan and organise duties / service requirements associated with physical and human resources , ability to allocate tasks / duties to a range of staff
- *Can demonstrate an understanding of human resource management associated with codes of practice / professional and Trust guidelines
- *Can demonstrate understanding of how to review/ plan staff rotas in accordance with Trust guidance / service need and mitigate workforce risks associated with staff deployment
- *Demonstrates ability , passion and knowledge of the following
- -Leadership
- -Team building / team work
- -Physical / Human Resource management
- -Change management
- -Clinical Governance / Patient Safety
- *Can demonstrate knowledge in relation to immediate incident management involving staff/ patients and the practice setting
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
