[ref. a19461421] Deputy Team Leader Theatre Recovery - NHS

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Job overview

This advert is for a Theatre Recovery/PACU deputy team leader. You will be enthusiastic, dynamic, motivated and have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, along with considerable experience in post anaesthetic care. This post involves a 24hr working pattern including weekends and night duty.

We are the acute site providing a 24-hour emergency service for both adult and paediatric patients. We have seven main theatres covering specialties such as laparoscopic surgery, ENT, urology, gynaecology, orthopaedic trauma, emergencies, general surgery and obstetrics.

This post involves face to face contact with patients. Therefore, it cannot be ruled out that the post holder may come in to contact with people who have COVID-19.

The role involves working 32 hours per week, across 7 days Monday - Sunday, including days and nights.

You may be required to work across the trust sites, on the Leigh and Wrightington site as well as being based on the Wigan site.

Main duties of the job

Manage a team of practitioners on a daily basis in the theatre recovery areas, providing and promoting excellent patient care.

Support theatre efficiency, being dynamic in the management of safe effective care to support theatre throughput.

Provide and support education within your skillset and support the team in their ongoing development.

Have excellent communication skills used to ensure safety within the department. Act as department lead out of hours.

Responsibility for managing staff sickness, and roster duties, ensuring that the department is safely covered and information is accurate.

Communicate with the multidisciplinary team to support patients and staff providing care.

Working for our organisation

We have a recognised track record in staff engagement, and living our values.

WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.

• Acting as a resource of specialist professional knowledge bases for the team, through application of theory in practice.
• Assisting with promoting the delivery of evidence based patient focused care.
• Recognises the appropriateness of transferable skills when providing individualised patient care.
• Identifying, maintaining and improving the quality of care through facilitation of evidence based practice.
• Participation in managing effectively and clearly identifying what is required of others, setting goals and targets and providing accurate feedback on performance roles and responsibilities.
• Demonstrating sound leadership skills, principles, which reflect an awareness of local/national policies and strategies, and ensure up-to-date knowledge of legal matters that, may arise.
• Assisting with the development of competencies (in self and team) which safeguard practice and effectiveness in role(s) and lead the team as a credible and accountable practitioner. Ensuring compliance with NMC/HPC Codes of Conduct.
• Demonstrating understanding of the effective use of allocated resources / funding.
• Demonstrating an understanding and working knowledge of skill mix.
• Demonstrating and participating in development of the service to meet demands, and adapt to the changing needs of the service.
• Empowering self and team to creatively meet professional and organization objectives.
• Promoting safe systems, which assure all aspects of risk reduction, compliant with Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the agenda for Clinical Governance. Maintain Clinical and managerial records in accordance with current guidelines ensuring adverse incidents are

• Maintaining Health and Safety, and Control of Infection in clinical areas in line with trust policies and procedures.
• Delegate tasks to the team members that reflect their level of competency.
• Deputise in the absence of the Senior Team Leader when required

Person specification

Qualifications

• Qualification
• Registered Nurse/ODP with current NMC/HCPC registration.
• Academically accredited post registration theatre scrub / anaesthetic / PACU
• Mentorship/teaching Evidence

• Degree/Diploma
• Leadership or equivalent
• Management qualification
• Mentorship or equivalent

Experience

• Evidence leadership skills / experience.
• Current teaching and assessment skills.
• Extensive perioperative experience in scrub/ anaesthetics or post – anaesthetic care, as appropriate to role.
• Experience of auditing standards of care.

Skills

• Highly developed interpersonal, verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
• Developed analytical and problem solving skills.
• Standard keyboard skills and use of health care IT packages such as, ORMIS, HIS etc.
• Evidence of ability to work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team.

• Ability to participate in research/audit.

Knowledge

• Specialist clinical knowledge within own discipline of perioperative practice, as appropriate to role.
• Sound knowledge of factors affecting efficiency in the perioperative care.
• Sound understanding of principles of Clinical Governance (NatSSIPs, Risk Management & Audit) relating to perioperative practice.

• Knowledge of a broad range of surgical specialties and disciplines of perioperative practice i.e. scrub anaesthetics and recovery.

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Recruitment Information for Candidates

Our Trust prefers candidates to submit applications online. Please contact the Recruitment Team on 01942 244000 if you have difficulty applying online.

The Trust reserves the right to close adverts earlier than the stated closing date if there is a high volume of applications.

We endeavour to inform all applicants of the outcome of their application by email or SMS text message.

Guidance on Completing Your Application

Applications are scored against the person specification, therefore we recommend that you use the supporting information section of your application form to demonstrate how you meet the essential and desirable criteria for the role, providing illustrative examples where possible.

On-Call

Please note that some roles may require you to participate in an on-call rota, if the role is predominantly operational.

Continuous Service

WWL has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. and will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester Local Authority or NHS organisation, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority; giving you access to our service-related benefits.