Job summary
Job Title: Theatres Team Leader - General & Breast (Scrub, Practitioner)
Hours per week: 37.5 hours per week (Unsocial hours including weekends and occasional nights)
Perm/Fixed Term: Permanent
Salary: £35,392 - £42,618 per annum
Please note if you commence in post prior to October 2024, you will be paid in line with 2023/2024 agenda for change pay scales.
Closing Date: 25th September 2024
Interview Date: 7th October 2024
This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly.
All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.
A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.
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Main duties of the job
- To support the Senior Team Leaders/Theatre Manager to manage a team of practitioners ensuring the development and maintenance of high standards of Perioperative care
- To take responsibility for the day-to-day operational and resource management of the clinical area
- To take the lead for specific areas of professional practice as delegated by the Senior Team Leaders
- Acts as a leader, delegating appropriate tasks and supervising the standard of care delivered by more junior qualified staff, unqualified staff and student nurses/ODP's in the perioperative team
- To take responsibility for operational and financial resource management, as delegated by Senior Team Leaders / Theatre Manager
- To deputise for the Senior Team Leaders in their absence
In conjunction with the Professional Development Team, (Theatres), assist with the Training & Development Programmes for the following group of staff:
- Preceptorship of Newly Qualified Practitioners,
- Training & Development programmes Registered Practitioners
- Return to Practice staff
- Mentorship of Nursing/ODP students
- Mentorship/Training & Development programmes Support Worker
Responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care to patients in the perioperative environment
About us
Here at George Eliot our vision to 'excel at patient care' takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:
Effective Open Communication
excellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, extensive in-house course learning directory, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Deliver a high standard of perioperative care without direct supervision, based upon a sound evidence base.
To provide skilled clinical assistance to the surgical, anaesthetic and recovery teams.
Undertakes and document comprehensive, systematic and accurate perioperative care assessment of the physical social and spiritual needs of the patient where appropriate.
Creates and utilizes opportunities to promote health and wellbeing of patients in their care.
Ensure that all staff working within the Policies, Procedures of the Trust in line with NMC/HCPC Guidelines.
Ensure that adequate resources are available to meet the needs of the patients. Assist with the management of the department resources in an efficient and effective manner.
Maintaining a positive attitude to continuing professional education in order to enhance knowledge, skills and attitudes needed for safe and effective perioperative practice.
Maintaining standards by ensuring that evidenced based practice underpins all health care inventions.
Ensures that the Senior Team Leader/Theatre Manager is informed of any
Professional concerns at the earliest opportunity.
For more information, please refer to the Job Description and Personal Specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Deliver a high standard of perioperative care without direct supervision, based upon a sound evidence base.
To provide skilled clinical assistance to the surgical, anaesthetic and recovery teams.
Undertakes and document comprehensive, systematic and accurate perioperative care assessment of the physical social and spiritual needs of the patient where appropriate.
Creates and utilizes opportunities to promote health and wellbeing of patients in their care.
Ensure that all staff working within the Policies, Procedures of the Trust in line with NMC/HCPC Guidelines.
Ensure that adequate resources are available to meet the needs of the patients. Assist with the management of the department resources in an efficient and effective manner.
Maintaining a positive attitude to continuing professional education in order to enhance knowledge, skills and attitudes needed for safe and effective perioperative practice.
Maintaining standards by ensuring that evidenced based practice underpins all health care inventions.
Ensures that the Senior Team Leader/Theatre Manager is informed of any
Professional concerns at the earliest opportunity.
For more information, please refer to the Job Description and Personal Specification.
Person Specification
Qualification(s) and Professional Training
Essential
- Professional qualification- Registered Nurse/Operating Department Practitioner
Desirable
- Mentoring and assessing
- Leadership development
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Relevant clinical experience in the Operating Department
- Demonstrate commitment and ability to lead a team and support staff
- Evidence of Continual Professional Development
Desirable
- Demonstrates the ability to effectively manage resources
- Experience of Clinical Audit
- Band 6 experience
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Proven clinical skills within speciality relevant to post
Desirable
- Experienced recovery practitioner
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Excellent communication skills
- Enthusiastic
- Positive working relationships
- Ability to motivate others
- Good Health Record
- Proven leadership skills
- Good organisational skills
- Ability to work under pressure
- Evidence based practice
- Computer literate
Other
Essential
- Able to work flexibly during work hours to cover department needs
Trust Values
Essential
- Effective Open Communication
- Excellence and Safety in all That We do
- Challenge but Support
- Expect Respect and Dignity
- Local Healthcare that Inspires Confidence
Person Specification
Qualification(s) and Professional Training
Essential
- Professional qualification- Registered Nurse/Operating Department Practitioner
Desirable
- Mentoring and assessing
- Leadership development
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Relevant clinical experience in the Operating Department
- Demonstrate commitment and ability to lead a team and support staff
- Evidence of Continual Professional Development
Desirable
- Demonstrates the ability to effectively manage resources
- Experience of Clinical Audit
- Band 6 experience
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Proven clinical skills within speciality relevant to post
Desirable
- Experienced recovery practitioner
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Excellent communication skills
- Enthusiastic
- Positive working relationships
- Ability to motivate others
- Good Health Record
- Proven leadership skills
- Good organisational skills
- Ability to work under pressure
- Evidence based practice
- Computer literate
Other
Essential
- Able to work flexibly during work hours to cover department needs
Trust Values
Essential
- Effective Open Communication
- Excellence and Safety in all That We do
- Challenge but Support
- Expect Respect and Dignity
- Local Healthcare that Inspires Confidence
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
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).
