Job summary
The Theatre Coordinator will need to take responsibility for the running of the department and take charge in the absence of the Theatre Management team. To assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care. To Manage and ensure that the provision of nursing care and maintaining high clinical standards is met
Main duties of the job
As a department we need provide care of patients undergoing invasive procedures admitted to the hospital. To provide surgical services to Consultants. To meet budgetary and quality targets.
About us
Located in leafy St Johns Wood on the Jubilee line, minutes from Central London, our independent private Hospital has just been rated the number one in the country for care in the latest Bupa survey. Uniquely, all profits fund our onsite Hospice, St Johns.
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. To Assist the Theatre Management team in the efficient utilisation of all resources with specific attention on Theatre utilisation and staffing.
2. Leadership and support for the Theatre team
3. Assisting with staff recruitment, training, development and appraisals.
4. Report the failure or mechanical problems of any items of equipment in line with Hospital Policy.
5. Contribute to the effective budget management of the Theatre Department.
6. To assist the Theatre Manager in the business planning process, including business continuity plans.
7. Exhibit a high level of Perioperative care in line with best practice as well as professional and national standards and hospital procedures and acting as a role model for the team.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
8. Registered Nurse or Operating Department Practitioner
9. Post graduate qualification mentorship
10. Minimum 5 years experience within the role of Operating Rooms Practitioner
11. Demonstrated experience managing teams
12. Demonstrated experience running an Operating Suite in the absence of the Manager or Deputy.
Desirable
13. Competence in delivering a high level of peri-operative care
14. A high level of communication skills within all disciplines and grades.
15. Flexibility in response to needs of the department
16. Ability to deliver a high level of customer service to patients and Consultants