Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Are you ready to lead and inspire in a role where every day makes a difference?
We're looking for someone who brings strong leadership skills, seeking a dynamic leader who is innovative, flexible, and driven to lead a diverse, multidisciplinary team with compassion and vision.
We are excited to announce that we are recruiting for a Registered Nurse or Operating Department Practitioner (ODP) to join our dedicated Maternity Theatres team. If you are passionate about providing consistently outstanding care and delivering exemplary service to patients, this is the perfect opportunity for you!
Main duties of the job
To manage and lead a specialist team in a designated clinical area; contributing to the strategic and operational management of the maternity theatre team. Delivering optimal patient care and providing an effective and efficient high quality service.
Job responsibilities
1. Responsible for a designated area, contributing to the strategic and operational management of the maternity theatre team; ensuring effective and efficient utilisation of resources and staff members to provide a quality service.
2. Deputise for the Service Manager as required and support in the development, innovation and expansion of the service(s) within the department.
3. Effectively manage and co-ordinate the running of the department staff and specialties to maintain effective and efficient multidisciplinary team-working; ensuring control mechanisms are in place to create safe working practices.
4. Deliver services within financial constraints to achieve optimum patient care. Support the Service Manager with achieving financial savings identified through the Cost Improvement Process.
5. Responsible and accountable for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating high quality patient care within specialist area of practice, through implementation and evaluation of evidence-based practice.
6. Act as a specialist resource within the clinical area, sharing clinical expertise with peers and surgical hub personnel.
7. Take responsibility for effective and efficient utilisation use of resources and stock, within agreed budgets; including responsibility for maintaining stock levels within specialist area.
8. Ensure effective communication with other professionals and groups within the Trust as well as external agencies.
9. To be responsible for policy and service development through the implementation of protocols for practice and pathways.
10. Lead and support a multidisciplinary team by actively participating in the delivery of high quality patient care.
11. Monitor and maintain provision of care to the highest standard.
12. Manage risks, accidents, and incidents in accordance with Trust policy.
13. Promote Clinical Governance and Clinical Effectiveness within the team to ensure an understanding of how this affects day to day activity within the department, through audit and research, ensuring all our practices are evidence based.
14. Respond to complaints and assist in their resolution within the Trusts complaints handling framework.
15. Ensure compliance with Trust policies, procedures and guidelines for self and others.
16. Act as a role model by demonstrating leadership and expertise, and by maintaining credibility within the Division, the wider health care community and external agencies.
17. Create an environment conducive to change, participating in identification, development and review of guidelines and standards of care.
18. Manage staff absence in conjunction with the Service Manager and Human Resources.
19. To deal with staff grievances and disciplinary matters in the first instance, ensuring that they are dealt with in accordance with Trust Policies.
20. Develop Team Leaders to provide effective leadership by demonstrating a high level of clinical expertise to support staff, and promote their development.
21. Manage the recruitment and selection of staff, within specialities, supported by other department staff.
22. Work with the Service Manager to identify and assist the professional education, training and development needs of the staff and facilitate the achievement of these objectives through staff appraisal.
23. Maintain specialist level of expertise through post registration study, demonstrating continuing professional development.
24. Maintain professional registration and act at all times within relevant code of conduct.
Person Specification
RGN/ODP
* RGN/ODP
Leadership/Management
* Experience
* Management Leadership in the NHS
Maternity Scrub Experience
* Worked in a maternity setting
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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