Theatre Team Leader - Head, Neck and Paediatrics
Job overview
As a Head and Neck Theatre Team Leader, you will plan and order for future lists, manage and development staff, work with members of the multi-disciplinary team to provide a timely, high standard of care to patients. You will also be assisting the Theatre Manager in the continuing responsibility for the management of the Department.This includes the deployment of staff, equipment, supplies and other resources. You will have oversight of the paediatric service delivered in theatre, assist with training and educating staff. Be the link for the department at paediatric meetings, disseminating any changes to practice or equipment.
Main duties of the job
As a Theatre team leader, you will plan and order for future lists, manage and development staff, work with members of the multi-disciplinary team to provide a timely, high standard of care to patients. You will also be assisting the Theatre Manager in the continuing responsibility for the management of the Department.This includes the deployment of staff, equipment, supplies and other resources. Carry out 24 hour responsibility for the department in the absence of the Theatre Manager. You will have oversight of the paediatric service delivered in theatre, assist with training and educating staff.
Be the link for the department at paediatric meetings, disseminating any changes to practice or equipment.
Working for our organisation
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities.As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
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Person specification
Education
Essential criteria- Registered nurse or Operating Department Practitioner
- Holds current EPALS qualification
- Mentorship qualification
Knowledge and skills
Essential criteria- Minimum 2 years post registration experience.
- Experience of Paediatric airway management.
- Sound surgical scrub skills in head and neck procedures.
- Leadership and management qualification