Job overview
We are recruiting for a Team Leader-Maternity Theatres who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
The Registered ODP / Registered Nurse is a vital and valued role to support in providing high-quality, compassionate care to patient/clients and their families/carers within the clinical / peri-operative environment. Based within the theatre team they work closely the multi-disciplinary team in monitoring and maintaining policies, standards of nursing care, staff and service development.
We have a new role available as Scrub Theatre Team Leader. This post requires candidates to have an all-round knowledge of elective (Vascular, Orthopaedics, Urology, Obstetrics & Gynae, Plastics, Robotics, ENT and General Surgery) and emergency procedures.to join our Scrub Team within theatres.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will continuously maintain health, safety and control of Infection in clinical work areas.
You will assist in the care for patients undergoing Elective & Emergency Caesarean Sections,
You will receive, transfer and position patients for clinical procedures.
The successful candidate will ensure equipment, supplies and waste is kept to a minimum.
Work as part of a multidisciplinary team to ensure the safety and comfort of women.
Communicate effectively both verbally and in writing with the multidisciplinary team, women and relatives.
Plan, implement and evaluate the peri-operative care of the women as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
* The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
* New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
* Hertford County, Hertford
* Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
* Registered Nurse or Registered ODP
* Must be willing to undertake post registration courses as advised by the Practice Educators/Theatre Team Leaders
Desirable criteria
* Edward Jenner Course
* ILS / PILS
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
* Relevant experience in either an inpatient or day surgery theatre, maternity theatre or other relevant clinical area
* Peri-operative practice, skilled in recovery and scrub
* Gained through undertaking Relevant study
Desirable criteria
* Experience of providing clinical support outside of the theatre area
Skills
Essential criteria
* Good interpersonal and communication skills
* Can Organise and prioritise
* Ability to demonstrate initiative
* Flexible
* Good planning skills
* Clear written and spoken English
* Can perform in the role of scrub and circulating assistant
* Has relevant experience within maternity or gynecology surgery
* Can effectively and efficiently run a theatre list
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Aware of the National 6 C’s campaign
* Aware of Trust Values
* An understanding of Perioperative patient care
* An understanding of aseptic technique
* Teamwork
* Participate in audit
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
* Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff
* Role model our Trust values every day