Team Manager Gynae Theatre in Stevenage

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.

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 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.

Person Specification

• Qualifications
• Essential: RGN and/or ODP, Registration with NMC/HPC, Evidence of continuing professional development, Mentorship/preceptorship qualification, Relevant robotic training/experience (CMR/DeVinci) (Diploma/BSc).
• Desirable: Management qualification, Appraisal management.
• Previous Experience
• Essential: Relevant experience at band 6 or equivalent, Participation in formulation of procedures to ensure best practice, Teaching and assessing, Experience in a specialised area of theatre work, Implementation of personal development plans.
• Desirable: Peri-operative practice multi skilled in anaesthetics/recovery/scrub, Management experience, Managing a team, Management of more than one theatre area, Experience in appraisal techniques.
• Skills
• Essential: Must have Gynae & Robotics experience (CMR), Can perform in the role of scrub and circulating assistant, Adaptable and flexible approach to work, Demonstrates clear communication, Can effectively and efficiently run a suite of theatres, Can delegate work when appropriate, Can organise and prioritise, Can participate in the audit process, Can perform effectively in an emergency situation, Places value on the patient experience, Has specialist skills in a relevant area of theatre work.
• Desirable: Has leadership skills, Can develop a group of people into a team, Can participate in resource management.
• Knowledge
• Desirable: Can implement research based practice, Knows of patient focused approach, How to understand and manage budgets.
• Other Requirements
• Essential: 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, Be able to work within an environment which where you will be exposed to blood, body tissue and body fluids, Be able to work in close proximity to patients undergoing open and closed operative procedures, Be able to concentrate for long periods of time, Able to work in an environment with high levels of physical activity.