Team Manager Gynae TheatreNHS
Job summary
We are recruiting for a Gynaecology Team Manager who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
You will lead the Gynaecology Main Theatres team, demonstrating strong clinical expertise in perioperative care and working collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team. You will be competent to scrub and circulate across Gynaecology Main Theatres, including CMR robotic surgery, with flexibility to support the Treatment Centre and other theatre areas when required.
You will support the safe and efficient delivery of routine and emergency theatre services, including out-of-hours and on-call commitments. You will also provide clinical leadership across areas such as Obstetrics, A&E and X-Ray, ensuring excellent communication and continuity of care across the multidisciplinary team.
Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!
Main duties of the job
Ensure the effective and economical use of resources, contributing to stock control and rationalisation while supervising staff within designated areas.
Maintain accountability for the safe use and upkeep of routine and specialist equipment, organising staff to maximise efficiency in routine and emergency theatre sessions and ensuring information is accessible to staff, patients and the public.
Provide leadership as Theatre Coordinator, managing all theatre areas and upholding high standards of health, safety and infection control.
Plan, implement and evaluate peri-operative care within the multidisciplinary team, ensuring practice aligns with Trust policy and current evidence.
Safely receive, transfer and position patients; prepare, administer and monitor prescribed medications; and maintain all equipment and materials required for procedures.
Support, monitor and care for patients during and immediately after surgery, contributing to emergency care when needed.
Job description
Please see job description and person specification in the applicant pack. this contains detailed main duties and responsibilities for this role.
About us
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.