Theatre Scheduler

**Theatre Scheduler | Private Healthcare | Administration | Wrexham | 12 months FTC | Maternity Cover | Full time | 37.5 hrs | £22,327 per annum**

Spire Yale Hospital, Wrexham is looking for a Theatre Scheduler to join their Theatre team on a full time, fixed-term basis to cover maternity leave.

Spire Yale Hospital is one of North Wales’ leading private hospitals and we take pride in delivering high-quality care. We offer fast access to consultations with specialists in a wide range of treatments, supported by advanced imaging and diagnostic technology.

**Working Hours**:_Monday to Friday 8:30 am to 4:30 pm _

**Contract Type**:_12 months FTC - Maternity Cover _
- As Theatre Scheduler, you will be working proactively with the theatre team and consultants to manage the efficient scheduling of inpatient and day-case procedures. Key responsibilities include full compliance with theatre optimisation and theatre utilisation projects, scheduling patients and ensuring anaesthetic cover. _

**Duties and Responsibilities include but not limited to**:

- Lead the process of booking patients into theatre lists within agreed timescales; this is done in conjunction with the Consultants ensuring that all lists are fully utilised
- Ensure all theatre sessions are populated as far in advance as possible
- Effective utilisation of all available theatre sessions, population of lists and communication of available lists to all consultants on a weekly basis
- Communicate with patients and their representatives both verbally and in writing confirming admission dates
- Monitor closely on a daily basis the patients waiting for dates to be confirmed and action accordingly by contacting relevant consultants and patients to pursue dates
- Prepare and send out admission letters and packages to parents/carers and to deal with any telephone calls relating to these, ensuring that efficient and accurate advice is given at all times and that any follow up calls are made

**Who we're looking for**:

- Experience in a similar role, providing a full high quality service.
- Computer literate
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Have a systematic and organised approach to work
- Able to work with tight deadlines
- Experience working in a hospital or similar set up and knowledge of medical terminology is desirable

**Benefits**:
We offer employees a competitive salary as well as a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:

- 35 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays FTE
- Employer and employee contributory pension with flexible retirement options
- ‘Spire for you’ reward platform - discount and cashback for over 1000 retailers
- Private medical insurance
- Life assurance
- Save an average of £50 per month with our free car park close by
- Free DBS
- Free Uniform

**Our Values**

We are extremely proud of our heritage in private healthcare and of our values as an organisation:

- Driving clinical excellence
- Doing the right thing
- Caring is our passion
- Keeping it simple
- Delivering on our promises
- Succeeding and celebrating together

Our people are our difference; it's their dedication, warmth and pursuit of excellence that sets Spire Healthcare apart.

We commit to our employees well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward.

**Spire Healthcare are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture for all. Our people are our difference, it’s their dedication, warmth and pursuit of excellence that sets Spire Healthcare apart.**

About Us: At Spire Healthcare, caring is our passion. We have been putting patients at the heart of everything we do for over 25 years. We’re committed to looking after people, both patients and staff. We deliver high standards of care to our insured, self-pay and NHS patients across 39 hospitals and 33 clinics, medical centres and consulting rooms. Our successful business is led by an experienced and stable senior management team, we provide the highest quality of care through the latest medical technology, new facilities, and a focus on inspiring leadership and employee development.

We have achieved our market leading position because of our Purpose, which is to _'make a positive difference to people's lives through outstanding personalised care' _. Everyone at Spire is aligned to this purpose, which underpins a culture of respect, inclusion, passion and collaboration across our business, enabling us to achieve more than 98% of our hospitals being rated ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding’ by the Regulators; these are sector leading standards.