Job summary
- Main area
- Specialist Lead Theatre Practitioner
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 360-HWE-0017
- Employer
- West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Albans City Hospital
- Town
- St Albans
- Salary
- £45,753 - £52,067 pa inc HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/09/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Band 7 - Specialist Lead Theatre Practitioner, HWE Surgical Centre
Band 7
Job overview
Do you want to be part of a team working in brand new, purpose-built theatres providing planned surgery for patients across Hertfordshire and west Essex?
We are looking NOW for talented staff to form the core team that will be the beating heart of the Hertfordshire and West Essex Surgical Centre being built at St Albans City Hospital and set to open in Spring 2025.
More than 4,000 patients will be seen at the hub each year for non-complex orthopaedic, hip and knee surgery as well as ear, nose and throat procedures and spinal injections. Being separated from emergency services will reduce the risk of short-notice cancellations.
This is a fabulous opportunity to play a key role in a flagship collaborative project between the East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust, West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Herts and West Essex Integrated Care Board.
The Surgical Centre will focus on Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) standards and will be a highly efficient facility, achieving 85% theatre utilisation and operating sessions over an extended 10-hour day, four days a week, with shorter, 8-hour operating session taking place on Friday and Saturdays.
Interviews will be taking place on 23rd October.
Main duties of the job
As the specialist lead theatre practitioner, you will support the Surgical Centre to be a centre of High Volume, Low Complexity (HVLC) surgery, utilising the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) standards and best practice to achieve a highly efficient facility.
You will be responsible for the assessment of care needs, development and/or implementation and evaluation of programmes of care for patients undergoing operating theatre procedures within the surgical centre for ENT and Orthopaedics.
You will work with colleagues ensuring that all patients scheduled for surgery are safely prepared and the co-ordination of their theatre time is communicated effectively with all clinical colleagues. You will develop the service to ensure that appropriate protocols and governance are in place and to audit the service regularly to ensure that best practice is maintained.
Working for our organisation
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details regarding this role.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- Registered Practitioner with current NMC or HCPC registration.
- Teaching & assessing qualification.
- Specialist knowledge at post-registration level in relevant specialist areas – minimum of 2 specialties.
Desirable criteria
- Masters in relevant subject.
- Management qualification.
- European Computer Driving License (ECDL).
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of responsibilities under NMC / HCPC Code of Conduct.
- Risk management issues including H&S, clinical risk management and quality issues.
- Significant knowledge of HCAI.
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of relevant research and its application to practice.
- Current NHS policy including frameworks, NICE guidelines.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in senior clinical post.
- Clinical expertise within ENT & Orthopaedics.
- Experience of leading a team.
- Experience of identifying education and training needs of others.
- Managing conflict.
- Managing sickness absence.
- Management of clinical incidents / complaints.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of audit / benchmarking.
- Experience in management of human and financial resources.
Skills and ability
Essential criteria
- Excellent managerial, leadership and organisational skills including report writing, presentation skills and time management.
- Ability to influence, manage and achieve objectives working in a demanding environment.
- Able to problem solve and initiate change.
- Able to work across professional boundaries.
- Ability to command the confidence of colleagues.
- Effective team working/ partnership abilities
- Negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
- Ability to multitask.
- Interviewing and appraisal skills.
- Able to work autonomously.
Desirable criteria
- Strong analytical skills and ability to consider the bigger picture.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kelly-Jo Toomey
- Job title
- Peri-Operative Delivery Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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