Band 7 Lead Theatre Practitioner

Job summary

Have you heard what's happening at Solihull?

In Summer 2024, we open six new theatres (13 in total) seeing an extra 10,000+ operations each year.

We have a lot to do. We've made a great start and as the building now starts to take shape, we are focusing our attentions on recruiting an amazing colleague to lead the teams in the delivery of first-class care to those patients who will be depending on us.

Our main four theatres will be supporting specialties - Colorectal, Urology and Breast and Plastics. We believe there is no better time to advance your skills and knowledge by making a career move to Solihull Hospital.

This exciting project has created many career defining opportunities and includes a Band 7 lead Theatre Practitioner to work with our Matron Jo Blake.

Her strategy is to bring together a team to provide 'The best patience experience and to deliver a high standard of care to everyone who comes through the doors of theatre.'

Jo prides herself we on creating supportive teams, where she assures staff of safe working practices with a healthy approach to work life balance.

Our clinical areas are recognised with the GOLD LEAF CERTIFICATE by Birmingham City University for their outstanding leadership and invaluable contribution to practice education and have recently received awards for excellent placement areas and exceptional student feedback.

Main duties, tasks & skills required

As Lead Theatre Practitioner you will lead a team of up to 40 professionals which include Theatre Support Workers, Nursing and Operating department practitioner colleagues. You will assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing care by ensuring and maintaining high clinical standards and exercise accountability as set out in the NMC/ HPC Code of Professional Conduct.

Our award winning UHB School of Nursing where you can be assured of, quality education, wellbeing, leadership, and all aspects of personal development. Within the School we offer a range of internal/external pathways to Research, master's and PHD's that can be tailored to your career ambitions.

You can expect a warm and friendly welcome from the Theatres and wider Solihull Team -- where you will embrace of values of Kind, Connected and Bold, whilst deliver first class patient care which underpins everything we do.

Your starting salary will be 43,742 rising to 50,056, with ongoing education and personal development. This, along with a public sector pension, 27 days annual leave (rising with service) & the opportunity to buy and sell leave.

If you'd like to join a caring and nurturing team and provide the very best care to our patients, we would love to hear from you. You can simply apply via this advert or drop us an email at Connected-Solihull@uhb.nhs.uk

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Job description

*Please Note : For a specific detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description* 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

* NMC Registered Nurse / HCPC Registered Operating Department Practitioner

* Specialist knowledge of theatres procedures / instrumentation acquired though degree or diploma plus experience and further post registration study / experience or management qualification in a related field i.e. : anaesthetic / 1st Assistant , or an equivalent level of knowledge

Experience

Essential

* Relevant and recent clinical experience within an acute care setting within theatres / relevant practice setting as a Band 6 deputy manager or equivalent or above including the supervision , deployment and education of junior staff

* Can demonstrate depth and breadth of experience of working in at least 2 areas of peri operative practice ( anaesthetics , scrub or recovery ) , and in different specialties including elective and emergency practice settings

* Professional portfolio which demonstrates continuing professional development, evidence of ability to maintain professional registration

* Evidence of effective multi-professional working with reference to decisions on issues arising from surgical emergencies and coordinating actions

* Experience of being a mentor, assessor and supervisor of students and junior staff

* Evidence of the ability to confidently lead / coordinate a shift / area of the department

* Evidence of the ability to organise others and forward plan and review/ adjust staff rotas

* Experience of supporting the implementation of new procedures/ process's

* Demonstration of recent involvement / significant contribution to innovative practice or change management

* Experience in interviewing and selecting staff

* Experience in learning from incidents / complaints and supporting changes in practice

* Wide knowledge of a range or pre and post-operative care, ability to plan and organise duties / service requirements associated with physical and human resources , ability to allocate tasks / duties to a range of staff

* Can demonstrate understanding associated with human and physical resource management and application across a team working in a multidisciplinary environment

* Can demonstrate an understanding of human resource management associated with codes of practice / professional and Trust guidelines

* Can demonstrate understanding of delegated financial authority associated with being a budget holder

* Can demonstrate understanding / experience in staff appraisal / performance review and talent management / succession planning

* Can demonstrate understanding of clinical governance/ patient safety and risk management in relation to the practice setting

* Can demonstrate understanding of HR policy application in relation to staff /management

* Can demonstrate knowledge in relation to clinical , financial and workforce governance associated with the role

* Can demonstrate knowledge in relation to workforce planning , development and staff deployment

* Demonstrates current NHS Policy / Political awareness in relation to the role

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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.

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.

UK Professional Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

For help with your application, contact: 

Jo Blake 

johanna.blake@uhb.nhs.uk 

01214242000