Clinical Lead in Anaesthetics

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 18 May 2025

Job summary

Are you passionate about driving excellence in Anaesthetics or Surgery? Join us as a Lead Specialist and make a significant impact in patient care and service delivery.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership Beyond Boundaries: Spearhead the appraisal, rota, recruitment, and supervision of a dynamic team while overseeing their professional development and performance.

Patient-Centric Care: Take charge in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating patient care programs, ensuring top-tier quality for those undergoing theatre procedures.

Trailblazing Innovation: Lead clinical audits and research initiatives in your specialized field, contributing to advancements and improved outcomes.

Clinical Coordination Mastery: Act as the Clinical Coordinator, ensuring seamless collaboration between various departments for streamlined patient care.

Empowering Excellence: Manage and lead a specialised team, fostering a culture of professional excellence and elevating service delivery standards.

Clinical and Managerial Balance: Enjoy a balanced work week, dedicating one-third of your time to clinical responsibilities while leveraging the remaining two-thirds for managerial prowess.

Professional Growth: Ample opportunities for personal and professional development, allowing you to expand your skills and influence within a supportive environment.

Main duties of the job

As a pivotal member of our team, you'll dive into a diverse range of responsibilities, each playing a crucial role in shaping our success and impact on patient care.

Communication Mastery:

Be the linchpin in our communication, ensuring seamless information flow and collaboration across departments, enhancing efficiency and patient pathways.

Infection Prevention Champion:

Take charge of infection control measures, implementing strategies to safeguard both patients and staff, ensuring a safe and healthy environment for all.

Health and Safety Advocate:

Spearhead our health and safety initiatives, fostering a culture of well-being and security for our team and patients alike.

Education Initiatives:

Play a key role in educational endeavors, sharing knowledge, and driving learning initiatives to enhance skills and elevate standards within the team.

Champion of Equality and Diversity:

Embrace and promote diversity, ensuring an inclusive environment where every individual feels valued and respected.

Risk Management Expertise:

Mitigate risks effectively by employing strategic risk management practices, safeguarding our operations and enhancing quality care delivery.

Clinical Governance Proponent:

Uphold and advance clinical governance principles, ensuring adherence to standards and regulations to guarantee the highest level of care.

About us

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

For a street view tour: https://royalpapworth.nhs.uk/virtual-tour

Date posted

06 May 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

Depending on experience 46148 pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

175-2526-1-CA1243

Job locations

Royal Papworth Hospital

Papworth Road

Cambridge Bio Medical Campus

Cambridge

CB2 0AY

Job description

Job responsibilities

On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Nurse Level 1 with live registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or Registered Operating Department Practitioner with live registration with the Health Care Professionals Council (HCPC)
Degree educated or evidence of level 6 study
Qualification in theatre practice
Current RN with NMC or ODP with HCPC

Desirable

Leadership / management qualification desirable

Experience

Essential

Portfolio of evidence to demonstrate significant achievement in operating theatre practice and ongoing learning and development
Evidence of excellent proven clinical and managerial skills
Experience in teaching and assessing junior staff and learners
Knowledge of the ethical and legalissues related to theatre practice
Knowledge of diversification to help us further diversify the nursing leadership within the organisation, to improve the employment journey for staff with protected characteristics
Ability to demonstrate effective communication in delivering complex information where there may be barrier to understanding
Be able to lead staff in a compassionate and collective way ensuring that their health and wellbeing is a priority
Collaborate effectively with operational and other clinical professionals to improve patient care and experience and to build strong staff engagement
Be able to give honest and professional challenge to colleagues
Be able to develop the clinical capability and confidence of individuals and teams and encourage innovation and curiosity about how improvements can be made
Ability to work in a fast paced and highly demanding environment
Ability to manage a budget
Intermediate life support skills
ighest level of care.

Desirable

Clinical and operational leadership
Able to demonstrate significant
personal involvement in change
management
ALS/CALS

Additional Criteria

Essential

Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Nurse Level 1 with live registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or Registered Operating Department Practitioner with live registration with the Health Care Professionals Council (HCPC)
Degree educated or evidence of level 6 study
Qualification in theatre practice
Current RN with NMC or ODP with HCPC

Desirable

Leadership / management qualification desirable

Experience

Essential

Portfolio of evidence to demonstrate significant achievement in operating theatre practice and ongoing learning and development
Evidence of excellent proven clinical and managerial skills
Experience in teaching and assessing junior staff and learners
Knowledge of the ethical and legalissues related to theatre practice
Knowledge of diversification to help us further diversify the nursing leadership within the organisation, to improve the employment journey for staff with protected characteristics
Ability to demonstrate effective communication in delivering complex information where there may be barrier to understanding
Be able to lead staff in a compassionate and collective way ensuring that their health and wellbeing is a priority
Collaborate effectively with operational and other clinical professionals to improve patient care and experience and to build strong staff engagement
Be able to give honest and professional challenge to colleagues
Be able to develop the clinical capability and confidence of individuals and teams and encourage innovation and curiosity about how improvements can be made
Ability to work in a fast paced and highly demanding environment
Ability to manage a budget
Intermediate life support skills
ighest level of care.

Desirable

Clinical and operational leadership
Able to demonstrate significant
personal involvement in change
management
ALS/CALS

Additional Criteria

Essential

Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.