Orthopaedic Theatre Team Leader

Join the Elective Orthopaedic Theatre team at Pinderfields Hospital as a senior practitioner. This role offers a chance to advance your orthopaedic theatre career in a supportive and forward thinking environment.

Main duties of the job

• Creates, maintains and enhances effective working relationships.
• Undertakes senior responsibility in the absence of the band 7 practitioner.
• Organises the clinical workload to ensure that staff are competent and confident to care for the needs of patients.
• 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.
• Participates in the monitoring and management of sickness/absence.
• Participates in the recruitment and selection of staff.

Qualifications

• RGN/RODP qualification.
• Mentor/Assessor qualification at honours level or equivalent.

Experience

• Significant post registration experience within theatres / PACU.

Knowledge and Awareness

• Essential knowledge of your own speciality and current issues in health care.
• An understanding of skills and knowledge required to develop yourself and team members.
• Continued professional development.
• Demonstrates a clear understanding of budget management.
• Awareness of own limitations.

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to work within the peri operative team and organise and prioritise own and others' workload.
• IT literate.
• Proficient organisational skills.
• Ability to relate to all staff, patients and carers in a confident manner, demonstrating good listening and an ability to work effectively as part of a team.
• Ability to lead, influence and motivate others.
• Ability to demonstrate evidence based practice.
• Effective problem solving and organisational skills.
• Demonstrates clear direction and leadership for the peri operative team with regards to the professional dimensions of care.
• Demonstrates diplomacy and the ability to deal with colleagues, patients and carers in a way that avoids conflict.
• Recognises areas of interpersonal conflict and develops a proactive stance in resolving issues.
• Ability to promote a secure environment for staff, patients and carers.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a DBS check.

Employer details

The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust

Pinderfields Hospital, Aberford Road, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1 4DG

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