Job summary
Are you a Senior Clinical Leader in a Theatres setting and looking for the next step on your leadership journey? If you thrive on a challenge and have demonstrable experience of leading and managing in an Operating Theatre environment, then this post may be for you.
This role provides clinical and operational leadership for theatres as part of the Anaesthetics and Theatres Business Unit management team within the Division of Surgery at UHDB. The successful candidate will be an experienced Senior RN or ODP by background. In addition, you will be a self-motivated individual, as well as a compassionate credible leader with good interpersonal and influencing skills.
This role will also be responsible for providing assurance to senior managers in the business unit and the wider Trust that our theatres deliver high quality, safe and efficient services across all 4 of our sites. You will have demonstrable experience of leading and implementing quality theatreservices for our patients.
Main duties of the job
You will have responsibility for providing clear operational leadership and direction to our team of theatre managers to provide safe and effective day to day running and planning of elective and non-elective services in theatres.
This role will be responsible for leading the development and delivery of a strategic vision for theatres that encompasses developing clinical capability in line with service needs, ensuring a safe and efficient service for our patients as well as a shared vision for compassionate and inclusive leadership for our teams.
Closing date of applications: 30 May 2023
Interview date: 13 June 2023
Previous applicants need not apply
About us
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As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together
Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.
In return we will offer:
- Development opportunities, including both professional and leadership development
- On-going support through every step of the way from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
- A variety of other staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
Key Facts about our Trust:
- Our hospitals see more than 4,000 outpatients daily
- We see more Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients than any other Trust - over 3,300 per week
- An average 860 patients are seen in A&E every day - 6th largest in the country
- Our hospitals admit more than 220 emergency patients daily.
- We carry out more planned surgical operations than any other Trust in England with almost 50,000 operations taking place in our 52 operating theatres
- We are one of only 5 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres
- We carry out more than 300 elective procedures each working day
Job description
Job responsibilities
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job description and Person Specification. To apply please click APPLY FOR THIS JOB this link will take you to the TRAC Recruitment Site. You will need to register if you do not already have an account.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters level qualification, working towards masters or equivalent demonstrable experience
- Evidence of management development
- Evidence of on-going professional development
- Evidence of relevant clinical professional qualification
Desirable
- Evidence of Health and Safety training
- Evidence of project or change management qualification
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Good verbal and numerical analytical reasoning skills
- Excellent presentation and report writing skills
- Evidence of strategic planning
- Excellent business case writing with evidence of successful cases
- Evidence of problem solving skills and implementing sustained change
- Competence in the use of IT systems and sources of information
Desirable
- Demonstrates delivery of progressive change
Experience
Essential
- Experience of leading and managing large multi-professional teams
- Evidence of compassionate leadership style
- Track record of leading and implementing significant change and service development
- Experience of working across organisational boundaries
- Evidence of providing quality and risk management assurance to senior managers
- Knowledge and experience of relevant quality and safety standards applicable to theatres
- Experience and ability to manage budgets
Desirable
- Understanding of the national theatre improvement agenda
Other
Essential
- Ability to prioritise large and conflicting workload
- Acts autonomously and on own initiative with appropriate level of supervision
- Works in collaboration with teams in the BU and wider Trust departments to deliver and improve services
Desirable
- Works flexibly to support service needs
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters level qualification, working towards masters or equivalent demonstrable experience
- Evidence of management development
- Evidence of on-going professional development
- Evidence of relevant clinical professional qualification
Desirable
- Evidence of Health and Safety training
- Evidence of project or change management qualification
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Good verbal and numerical analytical reasoning skills
- Excellent presentation and report writing skills
- Evidence of strategic planning
- Excellent business case writing with evidence of successful cases
- Evidence of problem solving skills and implementing sustained change
- Competence in the use of IT systems and sources of information
Desirable
- Demonstrates delivery of progressive change
Experience
Essential
- Experience of leading and managing large multi-professional teams
- Evidence of compassionate leadership style
- Track record of leading and implementing significant change and service development
- Experience of working across organisational boundaries
- Evidence of providing quality and risk management assurance to senior managers
- Knowledge and experience of relevant quality and safety standards applicable to theatres
- Experience and ability to manage budgets
Desirable
- Understanding of the national theatre improvement agenda
Other
Essential
- Ability to prioritise large and conflicting workload
- Acts autonomously and on own initiative with appropriate level of supervision
- Works in collaboration with teams in the BU and wider Trust departments to deliver and improve services
Desirable
- Works flexibly to support service needs
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
