Job overview
Theatre Scheduling Officer, Band 3 (30 hours a week)
This is an exciting role within the theatre team where you will be working with a dynamic team to ensuring that the theatre floorplan is maintained, updated and disseminated rapidly and efficiently, on a regular basis, with the purpose of preventing any personnel logistical errors
Main duties of the job
- A fully-utilised theatre resource which impacts partially on the Trust’s ability to achieve the national activity targets and fully impacts on the Trust’s ability to achieve the surgical waiting times target
- A tool for the use of the theatre and anaesthetic staff to allocate resources, human, equipment and stocks to the right theatre at the right time. Without this function, patients would be cancelled, which, again, would impact on the Trust’s RTT and CWT targets
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached detailed job description and person specification for further details of this exciting role
Person specification
Communication
Essential
- Must have excellent communication skills to be able to negotiate with staff in circumstances that require good listening skills and tact
- Ability to find ways of solving or pre-empting problems
- Good communication and negotiation skills
Qualifications
Essential
- Previous experience on the use of TrakCare. FDP or other relevant hospital systems preferable
Organisational skills
Essential
- An excellent understanding of the need to maintain accurate patient information (which is regarded as highly confidential) and keep it securely on both the computer system and paper records
Desirable
- Must be aware of the Trust activity targets and constantly evaluate decisions against these objectives
- bility to analyse performance data to identify areas for improvement
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This advert is for Theatre Scheduling Officer, Band 3 with Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Cheltenham, South West, England. It is listed as a Band 3 Administrative and IT role. The advertised salary is £25,760 - £27,476 (pa pro rata if part-time). The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 26 Jul 2026.
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