12 Oct
Barts Health NHS Trust
London
Job description
Job overview
We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic, and highly motivated theatre practitioner to join our theatre Band 7 leadership team.
Applicants should have significant theatre scrub experience within the Cardiac and Thoracic specialities. This post would be to Lead in Thoracic and participate in Cardiac which would include coordinating.
You will require strong leadership skills and a passion to deliver high quality in all aspects of nursing care. Providing visible, credible senior presence, you will be expected to lead on improvements across the theatre environment.
Barts Heart Centre has brought together the services of some of the best cardiovascular experts in the country who work together to create a single specialist centre for cardiovascular disease covering all our local communities and nationally.
You will be joining us at an incredibly exciting time, as we realise a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to improve services for today’s patients and future generations.
We are proud of our world class cardiovascular, Thoracic robotics, Robotic Cardiac and ECMO service. We have recently developed our complex aorto-vascular service including TEVAR, FEVAR and a Thoraco-Abdominal Aneurysm repair service attracting patients from across the country.
There will be opportunities for you to further your professional development with access to clinical and leadership courses available through the Trust and with our partner education institutions.
Main duties of the job
Skilled clinical practitioner with understanding and experience of delivering and leading on patient safety and governance in the theatre environment.
Demonstrate excellent leadership qualities and embrace our Trust WECARE values,
whilst being an advocate for delivering outstanding care to our patients and meeting the priorities of both our patients and staff.
Deliver high quality in all aspects of nursing care and demonstrate transformational skills in order to drive improvements in both practice and learning, ensuring safe, efficient timely individualised care is delivered in line with local and national targets.
Working for our organisation
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation.
Having lifted ourselves out of special measures,
we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond.
That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time.
It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging.
We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required.
For both documents, please view the attachment / s below.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NMC / HCPC registration
- Relevant first degree or equivalent
- Appropriate peri-operative post registration course
- Mentorship course or equivalent teaching qualification
Desirable criteria
Masters or working towards
Experience
Essential criteria
- Theatre scrub experience in relevant theatre setting at Band 6 level or above
- Evidence of specialist Thoracic surgical experience including robotic surgery
- Experience in delivering teaching and training
- Experience of managing challenging situations
Desirable criteria
- Experience in multiple surgical specialities including cardiac surgery
- Experience in Theatre co-ordination and team management
- Evidence of participation in quality improvement
- Experience in leading in clinical audit and delivery of outcomes
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understand change management and service development
- Knowledgeable of current professional issues in nursing
- In depth skill and technical knowledge of at least one relevant surgical specialty
- Aware of service improvement specifications e.g. NHS framework, NICE guidelines, GIRFT
- Knowledge and understanding of patient safety initiatives including WHO safe surgery.
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of procurement / supplies chain working
▶️ Senior Sister/Charge Nurse/Practitioner - Thoracic and Cardiac surgery
🖊️ Barts Health NHS Trust
📍 London