Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Emergency
Theatre Coordinator to join the established team at Pinderfields Hospital,
Wakefield. The successful candidate will
be a proficient Operating Department Practitioner / Registered Nurse with significant
acute theatre or PACU experience.
The role is multidimensional, but essentially involves
coordinating all non-elective surgical activity and facilitating the effective
utilisation of operating theatre time across a variety of acute clinical
specialities, aimed at providing a high quality service to patients.
Being an enthusiastic self-starter you will be able to
demonstrate the ability to work effectively and make decisions under pressure
either as part of a team or using your own initiative. Possessing excellent organisational skills and the ability to converse and negotiate across all grades and disciplines,
you will be a visible and accessible link in achieving a patient focused
service based on clinical priorities.
You are also expected to influence and participate in service developments and delivery, with the ability to meet deadlines and adapt to changing service
needs.
Although predominantly office based, there is opportunity within
the role for applicants to maintain clinical skills within the theatres & PACU complex.
This
unique role would suit the individual looking for a challenging and stimulating
change of direction.
Main duties of the job
- Coordinate utilisation of non elective operating theatre time
- Liaise with Consultants to prioritise clinical urgency and patient needs
- Monitor scheduled theatre activity to identify any spare capacity to cover emergency work
- Escalate to senior management where demand exceeds theatre capacity
- Act as a role model for students and junior staff, promoting a conducive learning environment
- Participate in the development and implementation of Trust / departmental policies, procedures and guidelines
- Uphold the Trust Values and Behaviours
About us
We provide care and support to over a million people in
Wakefield and Kirklees in their homes, community settings and across our
three hospital sites at Pontefract, Dewsbury and Pinderfields (Wakefield).
Always striving for excellence, we are at the forefront of
innovation and research, and we invest in teaching and the development of our
workforce.
We live by our values of caring, improving, being respectful
and maintaining high standards. We listen and learn because we aim to make Mid
Yorkshire the best place to work and receive care.
We value diversity and welcome talent and enthusiasm
irrespective of age, disability, neurodivergence, sex, gender identity and
gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation,
or other personal circumstances including providing unpaid carers support to
someone with a health and care need. As ethnic minority groups, members of the
LGBTQ+ community, and people with a disability/neurodivergence are currently
under-represented across the organisation, we encourage applications from
members of these groups. We have policies and procedures to ensure all
applicants are treated fairly and consistently.
We are proud of our staff networks - who offer valuable
guidance and feedback from those with lived experience.
We have a clear vision and you could be part of this! If
you share our values and you want to make a difference to the lives of our
patients and their families and carers, we would love to hear from you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Assessing health related needs of patients to identify and initiate steps to deliver effective and evidence based care.
- Being responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care of the non elective patient.
- Working autonomously caring for both adult and paediatric patients within a variety of clinical specialities.
- Working in partnership with the multi-disciplinary team, to ensure effective planning of services and utilising resources appropriately, to meet the individual patients needs.
- Overtly valuing patient centred care.
- Contributing to the care of patients within their caseload in accordance with the Trusts policies and NMC/HCPC guidelines.
- Maintaining an up to date knowledge of current issues, practices and developments in perioperative care.
- Participating in a flexible shift system.
- Acting as patients advocate, to maintain their rights, dignity and confidentiality.
- Demonstrating an understanding of the Major Incident Policy and its implementation.
- Being responsible for effective, accurate documentation of care, in accordance with NMC/HCPC Document and Records Management policy.
- Leading on the development of evidence based practice protocols and guidelines.
- Demonstrating effective clinical judgement and articulating why decisions are made.
- Monitoring scheduled theatre activity in order to identify any spare capacity to cover emergency work.
- Ensuring that pre-operative patients are fasted accordingly and that all pertinent investigations and documentation are complete before theatre.
- Request up to date bloods/ECG where necessary.
- Obtain information in relation to specific patients ie. Pacemaker/echo reports.
- Following up on medical referrals for pre-operative anaesthetic assessment, ensuring that patients are reviewed in a timely fashion, and listed for surgery as soon as possible, when medically fit.
- Attending daily trauma meeting to identify patients requiring surgery, and generate a theatre list in consultation with medical staff.
- Discussing individual patients with the appropriate Consultant to ensure that theatre lists reflect patient priorities.
- Liaising with theatre staff to ensure theatre availability, staffing and equipment meet the demands of the patients requiring surgery.
- Liaising with wards and departments Trustwide, the High Dependency and Intensive Care Units, and ensuring clinicians are aware of any restrictions in bed availability.
- Address any day to day issues which may disrupt a patients surgical procedure ie lack of available surgeon or anaesthetist, coordinating search for missing notes.
- Organise and manage the Orthopaedic trauma / Urology homewaiters. Liaising with patients/ carers to arrange admission for surgery and communicate pertinant instructions.
- Fultil the role of single point of contact for these patients, providing honest, accurate, time sensitive information and responding to concerns/enquiries.
- Liaise with the relevant Clinical Specialists regarding loan kit, obtaining relevant costings and the appropriate managers authorisation before proceeding.
- Supervise Band 2 admin support inputting daily utilisation data for all acute and trauma cases and oversee the circulation of reporting emails to the theatre and wider management teams.
- Respond to adult and paediatric emergency/trauma calls in the Emergency Department to determine the requirement for surgery or anaesthetic room resuscitations, liaising with the theatre staff / theatre team leaders where necessary.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Assessing health related needs of patients to identify and initiate steps to deliver effective and evidence based care.
- Being responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care of the non elective patient.
- Working autonomously caring for both adult and paediatric patients within a variety of clinical specialities.
- Working in partnership with the multi-disciplinary team, to ensure effective planning of services and utilising resources appropriately, to meet the individual patients needs.
- Overtly valuing patient centred care.
- Contributing to the care of patients within their caseload in accordance with the Trusts policies and NMC/HCPC guidelines.
- Maintaining an up to date knowledge of current issues, practices and developments in perioperative care.
- Participating in a flexible shift system.
- Acting as patients advocate, to maintain their rights, dignity and confidentiality.
- Demonstrating an understanding of the Major Incident Policy and its implementation.
- Being responsible for effective, accurate documentation of care, in accordance with NMC/HCPC Document and Records Management policy.
- Leading on the development of evidence based practice protocols and guidelines.
- Demonstrating effective clinical judgement and articulating why decisions are made.
- Monitoring scheduled theatre activity in order to identify any spare capacity to cover emergency work.
- Ensuring that pre-operative patients are fasted accordingly and that all pertinent investigations and documentation are complete before theatre.
- Request up to date bloods/ECG where necessary.
- Obtain information in relation to specific patients ie. Pacemaker/echo reports.
- Following up on medical referrals for pre-operative anaesthetic assessment, ensuring that patients are reviewed in a timely fashion, and listed for surgery as soon as possible, when medically fit.
- Attending daily trauma meeting to identify patients requiring surgery, and generate a theatre list in consultation with medical staff.
- Discussing individual patients with the appropriate Consultant to ensure that theatre lists reflect patient priorities.
- Liaising with theatre staff to ensure theatre availability, staffing and equipment meet the demands of the patients requiring surgery.
- Liaising with wards and departments Trustwide, the High Dependency and Intensive Care Units, and ensuring clinicians are aware of any restrictions in bed availability.
- Address any day to day issues which may disrupt a patients surgical procedure ie lack of available surgeon or anaesthetist, coordinating search for missing notes.
- Organise and manage the Orthopaedic trauma / Urology homewaiters. Liaising with patients/ carers to arrange admission for surgery and communicate pertinant instructions.
- Fultil the role of single point of contact for these patients, providing honest, accurate, time sensitive information and responding to concerns/enquiries.
- Liaise with the relevant Clinical Specialists regarding loan kit, obtaining relevant costings and the appropriate managers authorisation before proceeding.
- Supervise Band 2 admin support inputting daily utilisation data for all acute and trauma cases and oversee the circulation of reporting emails to the theatre and wider management teams.
- Respond to adult and paediatric emergency/trauma calls in the Emergency Department to determine the requirement for surgery or anaesthetic room resuscitations, liaising with the theatre staff / theatre team leaders where necessary.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within an acute setting
Desirable
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse or Operating Department Practitioner
- Recognised Mentorship Qualification
- Evidence of Ongoing Professional Development
Knowledge and Awareness
Essential
- Demonstrate knowledge of current developments and government health initiatives
- Contribute effectively to Trust wide intiatives
- Awareness of own limitations
Desirable
- Research and Audit Experience
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Demonstrate ability to work effectively under pressure
- Able to converse and negotiate across all grades and disciplines
- Influence and participate in service developments and delivery
- Demonstrate a high level of personal and professional autonomy
- Develop and maintain positive working relationships
Desirable
- Teaching / presentation skills
- IT Skills
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Excellent communication and organisational skills
- Demonstrate a patient focused approach to care and service
- Ability to meet deadlines
- Enthusiastic and committed to high standards of work
- Flexibility to work as part of a team or using own initiative
- Ability to deal with difficult situations
- Ability to adapt to the changing needs of the service
Other
Essential
- Good attendance record
- Smart professional appearance
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within an acute setting
Desirable
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse or Operating Department Practitioner
- Recognised Mentorship Qualification
- Evidence of Ongoing Professional Development
Knowledge and Awareness
Essential
- Demonstrate knowledge of current developments and government health initiatives
- Contribute effectively to Trust wide intiatives
- Awareness of own limitations
Desirable
- Research and Audit Experience
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Demonstrate ability to work effectively under pressure
- Able to converse and negotiate across all grades and disciplines
- Influence and participate in service developments and delivery
- Demonstrate a high level of personal and professional autonomy
- Develop and maintain positive working relationships
Desirable
- Teaching / presentation skills
- IT Skills
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Excellent communication and organisational skills
- Demonstrate a patient focused approach to care and service
- Ability to meet deadlines
- Enthusiastic and committed to high standards of work
- Flexibility to work as part of a team or using own initiative
- Ability to deal with difficult situations
- Ability to adapt to the changing needs of the service
Other
Essential
- Good attendance record
- Smart professional appearance
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
