Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and over 400+ reviews is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Lead Theatre Practitioner to work in Leicester on a full-time basis.
The salary for this permanent Lead Theatre Practitioner job is £57,000 per annum.
Main Duties:
- To provide professional and clinical leadership and management for a mixed team of theatre practitioners made up of a team of employees and flexible bank staff.
- To be involved with coordinating the operational management of theatres on a day-to-day basis.
- To manage the theatre environment ensuring all consumables and staffing requirements are fulfilled.
- To advise clinical and management staff on fostering an excellent environment for patients with an emphasis on patient safety
- To support the service Clinical Director by providing clinical oversight and guidance
- To aid management in the processes needed to foster good practice in clinical governance such as audit and continuous professional development
- To act as a specialist resource for patients and the team by the provision of comprehensive advice, information, teaching and training.
- To participate in local operational and team meetings
- Help to control cross infection by observing policy regarding dress, the maintenance of a clean working environment, decontamination and sterilisation procedures and asepsis.
- Ensure a monthly 100% stock-take is undertaken and recorded against batch and quantity numbers including the checking of expiry dates
- Responsibility for the ordering and stock rotation of consumables used within the theatre
- Maintain the safe custody, handling of drugs in accordance with policy
- Contribute or lead to the investigation of complaints, accident reports and untoward incidents in line with Newmedica’s policies and procedures and implement recommendations for action.
- Collect, collate, evaluate and report information, maintaining accurate patient records in line with NMC standards, clinical governance and risk-management.
- Disseminate and ensure implementation of all medical alerts throughout the theatre and management teams
- Ensure that all check lists prior to the start of theatre are completed including a nominated ILS lead.
- To compile practical protocols and guidelines for theatre practitioners working in Newmedica services, ensuring compliance with up-to-date professional guidance and local resources.
Requirements of the Lead Theatre Practitioner:
- Hold a current nursing degree/diploma and work to the requirements of the Codes of Practice and Professional Standards as befits their professional registration
- Hold current NMC registration
- Previous experience as a Theatre Manager or Lead of an NHS Department, ideally in Ophthalmic TheatresSignificant hospital eye service experience expected
- Comfortable with Microsoft Office products and using computerised systems for data input/output and review
Contact:
This Lead Theatre Practitioner job is advertised by Lucy Ferguson; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.
As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award. Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
