Job summary
We are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity to join our dedicated Elective Orthopaedic Theatre team at Pinderfields Hospital.
We are seeking a highly motivated individual with extensive orthopaedic experience to become an integral part of our dynamic team.
This role is ideal for someone looking to take the next step in their career or seeking a fresh challenge in a supportive and forward-thinking environment.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced individual with extensive orthopaedic theatre experience to become a key member of our dynamic multidisciplinary team. This role is ideal for someone looking to take the next step in their perioperative career or seeking a fresh challenge in a supportive and forward thinking environment.
The successful candidate will demonstrate strong clinical leadership, team-building, and communication skills, developed through experience within the orthopaedic speciality.
About us
We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff members work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield).
Committed to continuous improvement, we prioritise our people and values so we can deliver excellent patient experience. Our team is friendly, passionate and always seeking better ways to work through research and innovation.
We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces for honest conversations and to share ideas, thoughts and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion.
As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers, car lease and home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more.
If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Creates, maintains and enhances effective working relationship.
- Undertakes senior responsibility in the absence of the band 7 practitioner.
- Organising the clinical workload to ensure that staff are competent and confident to care for the needs of the patient.
- Contributes to the identification of the skill and manpower requirement of the team, adopting flexible working practices.
- Ensures effective delegation in line with the capabilities and competencies of the staff delegated to.
- Participate in the monitoring and the management of sickness/absence.
- Participate in the recruitment and selection of staff.
- Participate in the identification and monitoring of staff performance through mentorship and assessment of individuals. This may be through a shared team approach or individual performance review.
- Participate in the implementation and maintenance of the Trusts Core objectives.
- Participate in the root cause analysis/serious untoward incidents that occur within the peri-operative environment.
- Involvement in the delivery of new strategies which impact on the clinical environment.
- Develop an understanding of risk management in relation to health care and report all clinical incidents through appropriate reporting policies and guidelines.
- Participate in annual environmental/health and safety/patient safety audits of the department.
- Participate in and promote high impact intervention audits and action plans as appropriate.
- Create a health working environment in all peri operative areas with particular regard to health and safety policies.
- Participate in the risk management process in accordance with trust policies
- Participate in cross site working Trust wide.
- Take responsibility for the allocation of staff on a day to day basis.
- To organise cover required for the event of short notice sickness/absence including shifts for on call/weekend/night duty and bank holidays, in conjunction with the band 7 lead.
- Maintain current and safe evidence based practice by reviewing/writing perioperative policies on an annual basis.
- Assisting in the investigation of complaints in a proactive manner to improve and review the quality of the service.
- Assist/participate in the investigation of clinical incidents in a proactive manner to improve and review the quality of service.
- Contribute to the development of annual departmental, directorate and trust objectives and the transfer of these to practice.
- Works in line with core trust policy.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Creates, maintains and enhances effective working relationship.
- Undertakes senior responsibility in the absence of the band 7 practitioner.
- Organising the clinical workload to ensure that staff are competent and confident to care for the needs of the patient.
- Contributes to the identification of the skill and manpower requirement of the team, adopting flexible working practices.
- Ensures effective delegation in line with the capabilities and competencies of the staff delegated to.
- Participate in the monitoring and the management of sickness/absence.
- Participate in the recruitment and selection of staff.
- Participate in the identification and monitoring of staff performance through mentorship and assessment of individuals. This may be through a shared team approach or individual performance review.
- Participate in the implementation and maintenance of the Trusts Core objectives.
- Participate in the root cause analysis/serious untoward incidents that occur within the peri-operative environment.
- Involvement in the delivery of new strategies which impact on the clinical environment.
- Develop an understanding of risk management in relation to health care and report all clinical incidents through appropriate reporting policies and guidelines.
- Participate in annual environmental/health and safety/patient safety audits of the department.
- Participate in and promote high impact intervention audits and action plans as appropriate.
- Create a health working environment in all peri operative areas with particular regard to health and safety policies.
- Participate in the risk management process in accordance with trust policies
- Participate in cross site working Trust wide.
- Take responsibility for the allocation of staff on a day to day basis.
- To organise cover required for the event of short notice sickness/absence including shifts for on call/weekend/night duty and bank holidays, in conjunction with the band 7 lead.
- Maintain current and safe evidence based practice by reviewing/writing perioperative policies on an annual basis.
- Assisting in the investigation of complaints in a proactive manner to improve and review the quality of the service.
- Assist/participate in the investigation of clinical incidents in a proactive manner to improve and review the quality of service.
- Contribute to the development of annual departmental, directorate and trust objectives and the transfer of these to practice.
- Works in line with core trust policy.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Please click 'apply now' to view full person specification (there is no obligation to submit an application)
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Please click 'apply now' to view full person specification (there is no obligation to submit an application)
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.
