Main area Emergency Theatre Co-ordinator Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent: Must be able to work long days both week days and weekends Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Must be able to work long days and weekends) Job ref 218-AHP-B7-6842621
Employer University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site UHCW Town Coventry Salary £46,148 - £52,809 pro rata per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 10/02/2025 23:59
Emergency Theatre Co-ordinator
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen in the main operating theatre department for a high profile, accessible and responsive leader. To coordinate the effective and efficient access of emergency patients to theatres. In conjunction with the multidisciplinary teams, to deliver high quality and timely patient care. Must be able to make informed decisions within their own area and scope of professional practice. Ensuring national and local agreed standards/targets are met and to take charge of the theatre department out of hours.
Main duties of the job
The role requires a high profile, accessible and responsive leader to coordinate the effective and efficient access of emergency patients to theatres and manage a multiskilled emergency team. In conjunction with the multidisciplinary teams, to deliver high quality and timely patient care.
To lead and support the emergency theatre team and floor control. Must be able to make informed decisions within their own area and scope of professional practice. Ensuring national and local agreed standards/targets are met and to take charge of the theatre department out of hours.
Coordinating the flow of emergency patients through the theatre department.
Working for our organisation
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.
We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.
Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare.
By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.
The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Accountable for own actions in accordance with Codes of Professional Conduct. Will contribute to corporate objectives, acting within local, Trust and Statutory guidelines and policies at all times.
* Highly developed communication skills, collaborating with all theatre specialities, Anaesthetic and Theatre teams to ensure the appropriate assessment and treatment of emergency surgical patients.
* Coordinate timely and appropriate access for emergency patients to the most suitable theatre resource, contributing to the clinical prioritisation of emergency patients.
* Responsible for identifying and assessing complex clinical and non-clinical issues, implementing solutions and monitoring/auditing outcomes.
* A knowledgeable autonomous practitioner, using agreed procedures for the safe and effective use of the Trust’s operating theatre resources. Identifying issues, which prevent the safe and effective management of emergency surgical patients, planning, negotiating and agreeing access.
* Undertake highly specialised technical and/or practical skills to ensure optimum patient management, including complex patient monitoring and defined expanded clinical roles.
* Proactively act as a resource for staff, coaching, mentoring others and providing expert advice on the emergency process. Ensuring that clinical governance is embedded in practice.
* Responsible for developing, implementing, evaluating education, training for staff, patients and carers in support of the emergency patient process.
* Audit practice, develop remedial action plans and participate in research in support of service improvement.
* Utilise and ensure others utilise, information, IT systems to secure accurate and timely information relating to patient, workforce and theatre resources. Responsible for providing agreed management reports.
* Responsible for interdepartmental/organisational activities including HR and complaints.
* Support patients, carers and others during difficult situations arising in the clinical area.
* Promote and monitor adherence to Health and Safety and Trust Policy designed to protect healthcare staff and service users from known hazards.
For further details of the role please see the attached job description.
Person specification
Qualifications
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To ensure that we provide world-class patient care, UHCW recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.
The Trust is committed to Equal Opportunities within the workplace. All vacancies will be considered for Job Share unless otherwise stated. All applicants who have a disability and who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be interviewed. Where a post has an overwhelming response, this Trust may use random selection in order to reduce numbers to interview, any disabled applicants will automatically be guaranteed an interview and will be exempt from this process.
In submitting an application form, you authorise University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust to confirm from your previous or current NHS employer and other prior employers; previous NHS service details and personal data held about you, including Occupational Health data (inoculations and screening tests). This data will be transferred using NHS Electronic Staff Record and third-party systems via an automated process and only used for the purposes of obtaining and maintaining accurate employment records, should you be appointed to the post.
UHCW NHS Trust, by virtue of its Green Plan, is committed to ensuring that the way we provide services minimises the impact on the environment and the future health of the public e.g. zero waste to landfill, reducing our carbon footprint and increasing our recycling and reuse percentages.
If you are successful at interview you will receive a conditional offer of employment and we’ll ask you for information so that we can carry out pre-employment checks. You must successfully complete all pre-employment checks to progress to a final unconditional offer.
We must confirm the identity of our staff and their right to work in the United Kingdom. We will ask you to submit proof of your identity and right to work documents via a secure digital platform approved by the Home Office, named TrustID. Alternatively, you may be asked to attend our office with original documents.
Depending on your level of exposure with patients you may be required to undertake a Standard or Enhanced DBS. The cost of this check will be charged to you and will be deducted from your salary over the first 3 months of employment at the current rate.
All correspondence will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk/SPAM folders.
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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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