Theatre Manager

Job Description

The Yorkshire Clinic - THEATRE MANAGER

Hours: Full Time 37.5

Salary- Competitive

The Yorkshire Clinic provides high-quality healthcare working with leading Consultants to offer a range of services and treatments for preventing, diagnosing and treating medical conditions and offer a wide range of complex surgery and services.

We are looking for an experienced Theatre Manager to join our fantastic team The Yorkshire Clinic has 5 operating theatres, and you will be responsible for the Management and Leadership of the theatre team to effectively implement and support quality, commercial and strategic initiatives. This is a collaborative role, where you'll build strong relationships with consultants, senior teams and a wide range of healthcare professionals and patients.

As the Theatre Manager, you will have budgetary responsibility and ensure that patient safety and outstanding patient experience is maintained throughout the department, while adhering to clinical governance and CQC standards.

As an inspiring leader, you'll develop and motivate your team, driving their performance, whilst supporting all the new initiatives of your hospital. With us, not only will you be valued for your skills and expertise, but you'll also have time to build on them too, through our Ramsay Academy.

As an effective, compassionate and visible leader you will drive the operational success of the team clinically to promote and ensure the delivery of the highest quality patient perioperative care.

The successful candidate will have a current NMC/HCPC registration, have extensive knowledge and background of Theatre management both clinically and commercial, strong leadership and excellent organisational and communication skills and the ability to operationally lead the department.

Reporting to the Head of Clinical Services the successful candidate will ensure the department is Safe, Effective, Responsive, Caring and Well Led, they will drive efficiency and actively ensure maximum utilisation of sessions and surgical lists. They will ensure there is a skilled knowledgeable workforce that can deliver the activity safely and efficiently.

Essential Criteria:

• ODP level 3 / Registered Nurse
• Qualified practitioner and current registration with NMC or HCPC
• Experience in a theatre manager or deputy manager's role.
• Experience in management of list utilisation, activity and efficient staff resource.
• Commercial and financial knowledge of healthcare activities.
• Experience of business and activity growth
• Academic and analytical in report writing
• Previous experience of line managing clinical departments
• Proven experience working in a leadership role
• Organisational skills and ability to prioritise and delegate workload effectively and respond to the needs of the department and the hospital
• Experience in clinical governance within the perioperative setting
• Change management skills
• Excellent IT skills

Experience/evidence of:

A strong clinical background in theatre areas from acute and or independent private hospital settings

A proven track record and evidence of successfully delivering a change agenda to enhance quality and efficiency

• Innovation in clinical practice
• Policy development
• On-going professional development
• Ability to self-direct/self-motivate, make decisions and generate ideas
• Well-developed understanding of research and development and clinical effectiveness approaches to care
• Well-developed IT skills
• Ability to manage change and challenge poor performance and practice.
• Interpersonal skills in managing conflict
• Ability to lead and influence a positive culture through compassionate leadership.
• Commitment to the development of the clinical practice of others
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, negotiating and influencing skills
• Flexibility.

About Us:

We are Ramsay Health Care UK. With 35 hospitals, 7,600 staff and 200,000 patients treated every year, we're one of the leading independent healthcare providers in England.

We're part of a global hospital group with over 50 years' experience that operates in 11 countries across the world. As people caring for people, our ethos helps make a huge difference in the lives of millions. We know that our people are our most important asset to our organisation, and are the key to our success and continuing growth.

We love people with a positive, "can do" attitude who want to make a difference in their work. "Our employees are Ramsay." The skills and commitment of our employees forms the basis for our success.

"The Ramsay Way" culture recognises that people - staff and doctors - are Ramsay Health Care's most important asset and this has been key to our ongoing success.

To apply Please contact Jan Matin- Head of Clinical Services for an informal chat, or to ask any questions you may have before you apply.

We care.

It's more than what we do, it's who we are. Everything we do is about striving to deliver the best care. And it's a belief that's as true today as it was when we welcomed our first patients in 1964.

"The Ramsay Way" culture recognises that our people are our most important asset and this has been key to our ongoing success.

We are proud to support the UK's Armed Forces and Reservists and have already achieved the Silver Award as part of the MOD's Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme. The scheme recognises employers who actively support Defence while encouraging other organisations to adopt the same behaviours in their workplace. As a company we are committed to supporting the wider Armed Forces community and this includes our staff as well as our patients.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all. This position is subject to background and DBS checks.