Team Leader Theatres | and North NHS Foundation Trust

Overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic team leader to join our team in Blyth Theatres. The successful candidate will need to have leadership experience within the Operating Theatres environment.

This is a great opportunity to enhance your leadership skills, be integral in the running of the department and will have the opportunity to support with innovation. If you are interested in gaining some leadership skills and enhancing your knowledge and development then this will be a great role for you.

Blyth theatres specialises in obstetrics and gynaecological surgery. We have 3 theatres: 2 for elective surgery and 1 for emergency surgery.

We are a 24 hour department and the candidate will be expected to cover out of hours shifts.

This post is available to Allied Health Professionals - Operating Department Practitioner and Nurses.

• Demonstrate their professional commitment to patients, their families and carers.
• Be committed to actively seeking the views of those who use and those who work within out services, and responding effectively to that feedback.
• Understand how to develop their team and workplace cultures to ensure the highest standards are maintained at all times.
• Collaborate with a wide range of people and professional groups to improve the services we provide.
• Be skilled in managing day to day organisational issues and challenges of both elective lists and emergency surgery.
• Be responsible and organise the effective planning of an elective list.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.