Choose Well - Choose WWL
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 30 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
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that ‘happy staff, makes for happy patients’. 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Acting as a resource of specialist professional knowledge bases for the team, through application of theory in practice.
2. Assisting with promoting the delivery of evidence based patient focused care.
3. Recognises the appropriateness of transferable skills when providing individualised patient care.
4. Identifying, maintaining and improving the quality of care through facilitation of evidence based practice.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Demonstrating understanding of the effective use of allocated resources / funding.
9. Demonstrating an understanding and working knowledge of skill mix.
10. Demonstrating and participating in development of the service to meet demands, and adapt to the changing needs of the service.
11. Empowering self and team to creatively meet professional and organization objectives.
12. 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
reported to the appropriate person without delay.
13. Maintaining Health and Safety, and Control of Infection in clinical areas in line with trust policies and procedures.
14. Delegate tasks to the team members that reflect their level of competency.
15. Deputise in the absence of the Senior Team Leader when required
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
16. Sound understanding of principles of Clinical Governance (NatSSIPs, Risk Management & Audit) relating to perioperative practice
17. Sound knowledge of factors affecting efficiency in the perioperative care
18. Specialist clinical knowledge within own discipline of perioperative practice, as appropriate to role
Desirable criteria
19. Knowledge of a broad range of surgical specialties and disciplines of perioperative practice i.e. scrub anaesthetics and recovery
20. Develop understanding HR Processes
21. Financial/budgetary understanding of context of service
Skills
Essential criteria
22. Highly developed interpersonal, verbal and non-verbal communication skills
23. Developed analytical and problem solving skills
24. Developed analytical and problem solving skills
25. Evidence/Application of leadership skills
26. Ability to plan and prioritise own and other’s workload
27. Evidence of ability to work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team
28. Demonstrate ability as a professional role model
29. Highly developed clinical skills as appropriate to role
30. Standard keyboard skills and use of health care IT packages such as, ORMIS, HIS etc.
Desirable criteria
31. Ability to participate in research/audit
Experience
Essential criteria
32. Extensive perioperative experience in scrub/ anaesthetics or post – anaesthetic care, as appropriate to role
33. Evidence leadership skills / experience
34. Current teaching and assessment skills
35. Evidence of implementing change in clinical practice
Desirable criteria
36. Experience of auditing standards of care
37. Extensive leadership and junior management experience
38. Proven record of change management
39. Competent in the use of intraoperative cell salvage
Qualifications
Essential criteria
40. Registered Nurse/ODP with current NMC/HCPC registration
41. .Evidence of continuing professional development
42. Academically accredited post registration theatre scrub / anaesthetic / PACU qualification, as appropriate to role
43. Mentorship/teaching Evidence
Desirable criteria
44. Degree/Diploma
45. Surgical First Assistant qualification
46. Vocational assessor qualification – D32/33/A1 award
47. Leadership or equivalent
48. Management qualification
49. Mentorship or equivalent
Additional
Essential criteria
50. Flexibility within contracted hours to meet the demands of the department
51. Able to provide on call
52. Ability to support colleagues in other perioperative disciplines within own level of competence e.g. anaesthetic, scrub and PACU
53. Speak English to an appropriate standard relevant to their role, i.e. with confidence and accuracy, using correct sentence structures and vocabulary, and without hesitation