Nights Emergency Theatre Speciality Lead

Job overview

The post holder will need to be an experienced theatre practitioner in Emergency Surgery, who has excellent leadership and clinical skills and is able to effectively act as a team leader, providing clinical leadership and management support to ensure agreed standards, objectives and targets are always met. The post holder as a clinical expert in Emergency surgery will also be required to act within their professional boundaries to provide care for patients. They will work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary care team to meet the needs of patients. The role requires a high profile, accessible and responsive leader. To coordinate the effective and efficient access of emergency patients to theatre out of hours. They will lead and support the emergency theatre team and floor control throughout the night. Must be able to make informed decisions within their own area and scope of professional practice.  Ensuring national and local agreed standards/targets are met and to take charge of the theatre department out of hours.

Successful applicants will be required to provide an immunisation and vaccination report, from either their current UK occupational health provider or their UK GP.

Main duties of the job

An experienced theatre practitioner in Emergency Surgery, who has excellent leadership and clinical skills and is able to effectively act as a team leader, providing clinical leadership and management support to ensure agreed standards, objectives and targets are always met. They will also be required to act within their professional boundaries to provide care for patients. They will work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary care team to meet the needs of patients. The role requires a high profile, accessible and responsive leader. To coordinate the effective and efficient access of emergency patients to theatre out of hours. They will lead and support the emergency theatre team and floor control throughout the night. Must be able to make informed decisions within their own area and scope of professional practice.  Ensuring national and local agreed standards/targets are met and to take charge of the theatre department out of hours.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Accountable for own actions in accordance with Code of Professional Conduct. Will contribute towards corporate objectives, acting within local, Trust and statutory guidelines and policies at all times
• Highly developed communication skills enabling maintenance of high-quality service and ensuring timely management and resolution of unexpected events and situations
• A knowledgeable team leader, supporting staff, service and policy development within a defined area/specialty
• A resource for staff, advising on national, local and Trust policy and procedures/guidelines, ensuring that clinical governance is embedded in practice
• Responsible for identifying and assessing complex clinical and non-clinical issues, implementing resolutions and monitoring/auditing outcomes
• Undertake highly specialised technical and/or practical skills to ensure optimum patient management including complex patient monitoring, equipment management
• Responsible for training provision of identified staff groups within defined areas
• Utilise and ensure others utilise IT systems to secure accurate and timely patient, workforce and resource data available
• Regularly manage expected and unexpected clinical events requiring high but unpredictable levels of physical effort according to patient dependency/clinical need
• Support patients, carers and staff during difficult situations arising in the clinical area, e.g. breaking bad news or following an unexpected event
• Promote and monitor adherence to Health and Safety and Trust policy designed to protect healthcare staff and service users from known hazards.

For further details please see the attached job description.