Team Leader - Day Surgery

at  Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

We are excited to offer the opportunity to join Manchester Foundation Trust (MFT) as a Team Leader for a 12 months fixed term contract for Maternity Leave cover.
We are looking for a dynamic, innovative and highly motivated registered practitioner (Nurse or ODP) with excellent clinical knowledge in Scrub to join our team and take a leading role. You will be enthusiastic, motivated, flexible, proactive and willing to learn new skills.
In particular, you should have proven experience in working and leading a variety of surgical specialties’ on a daily basis.
If you want to be part of a multidisciplinary team who are dedicated to delivering high-quality care to patients and their carers, then look no further.
We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality and delivering high levels of productivity.
We recruit staff that are open, honest, and focused on striving for excellence.
The department consists of 2 theatres carrying out elective Urology and urgent Trauma cases. Plus a dedicated Endoscopy room, Recovery area and Decontamination suite. All day cases are admitted to our dedicated Admission and Discharge Lounges.

AS A B6 SCRUB PRACTITIONER YOU WOULD:

Act as the Team Leader and take direct responsibility for the day to day management of a clinical area.
Act as a deputy to the Clinical Coordinator to facilitate the delivery of effective clinical practice, ensuring that all patients receive the highest possible standard of care.
Provide expert, patient focused care in the perioperative setting in accordance with Trust policies and Standard Operating Procedures.
Organize and prioritize care in conjunction with the multidisciplinary team, delivering a high level of care in all areas of the perioperative setting. Facilitate effective communication between all members of the multidisciplinary team and associate departments; possess excellent skills in providing the often sensitive and highly emotive information given to patients and relatives.
Demonstrate leadership and act as a professional role model ensuring that a professional approach is maintained by all team members at all times. Address members of staff behaving inappropriately and manage any conflict arising in the absence of the Clinical Coordinator
Support and educate colleagues including student nurses and Operating Department Practitioners, medical students and junior medical colleagues. Facilitate the Annual Development and Review process for an identified group of colleagues.
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you

Please refer the Job description for details